The World of Fine Wine - Issue #76

The World of Fine Wine Issue #76 is a quarterly wine journal of long essays, verticals and tasting reports.

Breadth is the habit of this publication, and this number roams: Roger Morris on art and wine, Jim Clarke on the aesthetics and terroir of cannabis, Judy O'Kane on forecasting a harvest, and Robert Walters back in the former Soviet Union. Tim Atkin MW covers white Rioja, Anthony Rose continues his Champagne Charlie serial, and Paul White argues the case for the Dão. Simon J Woolf follows Pignolo out of near-oblivion. Verticals take in 2020 Rhône, Henschke's 2017 Shiraz and 2020 vintage Port, with reports on 2021 Bordeaux, 2017 Brunello and Provence rosé.

It suits the reader who likes being taken somewhere unexpected between the serious tasting notes. Henschke and the vintage Port report are what Australian cellars will use; the Pignolo piece is for anyone who collects grapes nobody else has heard of.