Vinography

Some creative stonework greets visitors at the ArmAs winery in the Aragatsotn region of Armenia, carrying on a tradition of wine representation stretching back more than a millennium. The Kingdom of Armenia was known throughout the ancient world for its wine, and references to wine can be found everywhere, carved into stone, worked in metal, painted on frescoes, and more.

Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I spend each week exploring the internet for everything published about wine online, and here’s all the stuff that I think would be worth your valuable time.

Dramatic skies make for a beautiful evening above vineyards near Stellenbosch, South Africa. Known traditionally as the home of South Africa’s storied Cabernet Sauvignons, Stellenbosch is gradually also becoming the home of smaller, independent wine projects focused on a wider range of grape varieties made in a fresher more energetic style.

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Aligoté is having a moment. The workhorse white grape of Burgundy has spent much of the last half-century better known for kirs – cocktails made from dry white wine and crème de cassis – than fine wine. Today, it has become a darling of American wine connoisseurs.

That’s not just a headline designed to attract attention. It’s my professional opinion as someone who tastes and writes about global wines for a living. I believe there is no more exciting wine region on the planet right now than South Africa.

There are plenty of reasons for that, from the country’s extraordinary old vineyards and geological diversity to the sheer ...