What is en primeur and how has it changed over the years? En primeur, or “wine futures”, is a traditional annual campaign organized by Bordeaux wine producers to sell their wines from previous year’s harvest to negociants (French wine merchants). The campaign usually takes place in April, during when wine producers will invite negociants, international […]

Today’s International Women’s Day and as a female-led company run mostly by women, it means much to us as we join force to celebrate the core spirits of this day: celebrating women’s achievements, increasing visibility of women and forging a gender equal world. Team WWX takes this chance to pay tribute to female winemakers of […]

The celebrated region of Barolo received UNESCO World Heritage status since 2014, a year before the vineyards of Burgundy did in 2015. And it is not illogical to draw comparisons between these two equally geologically complex regions. Whilst Burgundy has long cultivated the recognition of differences among communes and vineyards, Barolo only started to legally […]

The enjoyment of wines of Burgundy come hand in hand with in-depth, detail-oriented understanding of the terroir of Burgundy. Today Team WWX takes you to look at the best climat (vineyard site) within Chablis Grand Cru: Les Clos. The classic Burgundy learner’s trick question is: how many Grand Cru is there in Chablis? The legally […]

Released in July 2020, Dom Perignon Vintage 2010 greeted the world of wine lovers with a menacing message “Harsh, contrasted, perilous”. Those are the three adjectives Dom Perignon has chosen to describe vintage 2010. Indeed, unlike how things were in Bordeaux, 2010 vintage in Champagne has proven to be a challenging one. It is therefore […]