On the grapevine

Climate change is redrawing Europe’s wine maps and changing wine culture. In Spain, an ancient winemaking culture is looking at how best to secure its future. Ronda’s first winemakers – in the mountains above Malaga – were retired troops from Julius Caesar’s Civil War. All the way back in 45BC. Today their descendants are working […]

We know there’s a reason winemaking is a family business. A vineyard lives on the scale of generations, not individuals. It takes five years to produce fruit. Twenty years to mature. It can improve for decades. And become famous over centuries. Wine makers leave legacies, or take on the hard work of their predecessors. But

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