The World of Fine Wine - Issue #81

The World of Fine Wine Issue #81 is a quarterly wine journal of long-form writing and tasting reports.

Granite takes the geology essay this time, courtesy of Alex Maltman, while Amanda Barnes returns to South America to ask which sites there are behaving like grand crus. Kathleen Burk writes on Edward Ward, wine and Grub Street in the seventeenth century; Roger Morris follows Rutger de Vink's pursuit of an American cru; Nick Ryan reports on Penfolds in China. Champagne is generously covered, with Rare Millésime 2013, 2009 Dom Pérignon Rosé and 2015 Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill all assessed. Tastings run across Alsace grands crus, skin-contact whites, Etna reds and southern hemisphere Cabernet.

Two reasons for local readers: the Penfolds reporting, and a southern hemisphere Cabernet tasting that sets Australian wines beside their peers. Past that, it suits anyone who reads about wine the way other people read about architecture.