Producer Focus

In a world where champagne brands are proliferating and where new blends and expressions are announced on an almost daily basis, the ‘single cépage, single district origin and single vintage’ mantra of Champagne Salon appears as an ...

The founder of Domaine Dujac, Jacques Seysses, started his working life in the biscuit firm Belin, run by his father Louis, before a period in banking. Exposed to the culture of gastronomy from childhood by his father, in 1966 Seyss...

Unconventional and eccentric yet haunting and often sublime, the wines of Château Rayas defy any reasonable categorisation. The cellars of the property near the town of Courthézon are notoriously difficult to find – no gleaming sign...

If La Romanée-Conti is the most valuable vineyard land in Burgundy, the most mythic is perhaps Le Cros Parantoux, its cosmic celebrity owed to the work of one man, the late Henri Jayer. Jayer (1922-2006) is remembered too as a pione...