Jay Z visits Petrus 🎈
🗞 HEADLINES
Jay-Z visits Bordeaux châteaux on a birthday trip. The Instagram post below shows the rapper with a glass of red wine at Pomerol estate, Petrus, along with the message ‘Brooklyn to Bordeaux’. (Decanter)
Flaviar has announced its acquisition of Wine-Searcher. Founded in 1999, Wine-Searcher services he trade through ‘unparalleled’ product information, high-quality content and proprietary market data and research.
👎 Pesticide residue in wine is on the rise. Official data analysed by a non-profit organisation has suggested a big jump in the proportion of wine that contains multiple pesticide residues. If it’s any consolation… the maximum residue level, which is the highest level legally tolerated in or on food or feed, was not exceeded in any of the samples analysed. (The Drinks Business)
The Court of Master Sommeliers (CMS)has announced it “will no longer use the terms ‘Old World’ and ‘New World’” in their published educational courses and examination grids. (Tom Wark).
👩⚖️ UNDER THE HAMMER
Just another legendary cellar…
Christie’s is selling bottles from the personal wine collection of music legend Quincy Jones (now aged 92).
The collection includes four bottles of Château Cos-d’Estournel 1928 and a single bottle each of Château Latour 1933 (Jones’ birth year) and Château Mouton-Rothschild 1934.
Jones credits his appreciation of wine to this early memory:
“When I was embarking on my first trip to Europe as a young trumpeter in Lionel Hampton’s band in 1953, the great saxophone player Ben Webster pulled me aside and gave me some of the best advice a 19-year-old who had never traveled outside of the country could ever receive. He told me that the soul of a country is identified by its music, its food and its language and that ‘wherever you go, eat the food the real people eat, listen to the music the real people listen to, and learn 30 or 40 words in every language.’” 🥰🥰
UPGRADE
🇮🇹 Ever heard of Cirò? 🤔
Me neither!
Yet, this little known region in Calabria will be upgraded from DOC to DOCG in 2024. (The Buyer)
Apparently, Cirò is considered one of the oldest named wines in the world.
The appellation includes white, red and rosé but its claim to fame is the Rosso, made predominantly from the variety, Gaglioppo (never heard of this either), “best described as the Barolo of the South” for its pale colour and tannic profile.
Curiosity peaked.
That’s it for today, thanks for reading!