800-year-old Bernard family has had roots in Bordeaux long before they dabbled in Bordeaux wine scene. Their involvement in Domaine de Chevalier only commenced in early 1980s when the family took over the estate and placed the then-23-year-old Olivier Bernard as the manager. For decades, improvements have been done both in the vineyards and the […]

Founded in 1985, Fontaine Gagnard has risen to become the go-to domaine for those who wish to compare and explore the different terroirs in the southerly village of Chassagne Montrachet in Cote d’Or in Burgundy. Fontaine Gagnard’s hallmark expressions are their holdings in Montrachet and Criots-Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru and the Premier Crus of Caillerets and […]

This International Women’s Day, Team WWX seeks to walk off the beaten path to feature this trailzblazing, award-winning lady winemaker Andrea Mullineux. Search her and you’d see a plethora of raving compliments about her: a trailblazer, a rockstar (quite literally, for she puts a lot of emphasis on terroir expression in her wines). And she […]

We’ve all at some points got invited to varietal tastings where we were challenged to bring something with an Old World resemblance yet coming from New World origins. It takes choosing New World wines of relatively lower degree of ripeness; and of certain age so to coax nuanced savoury-mineral notes and a restrained sense of complexity […]

All wine students get told that Chablis is an unoaked white wine at some points of our wine journeys. No oak in Chablis always stands, isn’t it? Nay! Here’s what happen next. Then comes the day when we come across Chablis wine legends like Francois Raveneau and Rene & Vincent Dauvissat, widely regarded as two […]