Spotlights and Deep-Dives

  In 2026, sparkling wine and Champagne are at a crossroads. The Grandes Marques are leaning harder into luxury branding, while a new generation o...

  There is a small hill in Bavaria – not much to look at from the outside, maybe forty meters high, perched above a quiet town called Freising – t...

  "It's too rainy. It's too hot. There's typhoons. There's no local expertise. Native hybrid varieties won't work. Taiwanese people only want to d...

  If Wes Anderson ever wanted to set a film in a whisky distillery, Tormore would be the obvious choice. It does not feel like an industrial site ...

Founders of the brewery, Lim Suk-ju and his wife Susanna Kim (Source: Chosun)   In a modest fermentation room in Sunchang, a mountainous county fa...

  Contrary to what most would admit, humans do in fact love unpredictability. So much so that in modern times, we've come to not just actually pay...

  "He who brings the kola nut, brings life.”   so goes the West African saying, where the kola nut is revered culturally for its ability to give e...

  In the cold of Niigata, central Japan, a little distillery - amongst the smallest of the country, in fact - is running left where its peers are ...

  Rice brewing has existed in Japan for thousands of years. Unexpectedly the methods and therefore the forms that it's taken has too evolved great...

Brewery Spotlight: Brasserie Ninkasi Lyon, France     With a baccalaureate on one hand and a suitcase in another, a university graduate set out t...

  Kumamoto is best known to visitors for its hot spring towns, and of course its easily recognisable black bear mascot (whose name is actually Kum...

  Krug Champagne holds such esteem amongst wine lovers that even within a category that itself, that of Champagne, is already hallowed and put on ...