The World of Fine Wine - Issue #80

The World of Fine Wine Issue #80 is a quarterly wine journal, illustrated and bound in the manner of a hardback.

Climate opens proceedings, with Michael Summerfield weighing how much about a warmer future is genuinely predictable and how much is guesswork. George Gross writes on coronations and royal drinking, Hugh Johnson on the Bordeaux Club, and Miquel Hudin on Rioja's Garnacha coming back into favour. Anthony Rose profiles the German sparkling producer Raumland. The tasting pages go unusually deep: Pol Roger vintages from 1934 to 2012, Château Troplong Mondot across four decades, sixty years of Ridge Vineyards, fifty years of Jim Barry The Armagh Shiraz, plus 2022 Bordeaux, 2018 Brunello and Jurançon.

The Armagh retrospective is the one Australian collectors will keep, and the Pol Roger and Troplong Mondot verticals are the sort of work almost nobody else publishes. It suits the reader who cellars seriously and wants to know how wines actually age.