This week in pictures features Sarah Neish tasting New Zealand Wines, Louis Thomas grabbing a drop of DRC, Douglas Blyde tasting Château Troplong Mondot, and Brown-Foreman’s sustainability plans. New Zealand Wines This week db editor Sarah Neish attended the New Zealand Wines trade tasting and masterclass with wine writer and broadcaster Oz Clarke. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2021 Senior staff writer Louis Thomas went to Corney & Barrow, the UK distributor of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, to taste the 2021 vintage. Berry Bros. & Rudd Aymeric de Gironde, the disarmingly amusing CEO of leading Saint-Émilion property, Château Troplong Mondot (1745), hosted a press dinner at Berry Bros. & Rudd to showcase three vintages including 2018, which he authored. Located atop the Saint-Émilion plateau 110 meters above sea level, a vantage from which de Gironde jokes he “feels like the king of the hill looking down at my neighbours” the estate features a 12-metre high cellar evocative of the Glass Bridge of “Squid Games”. “We need to make investment look good,” said de Gironde. Describing the wines as “a blend of personalities”, de Gironde collages fruit reaped from multiple parcels of clay and water-sucking limestone over the 27-hectare site, focusing on “silky” Merlot “seasoned” with Cabernet. With “50 years” of potential, the 2018, finalised by de Gironde, was distinctly aromatic, with floral, garrigues, and leather notes giving way to a polished, savoury palate of bacon-wrapped rillette and proper gravy, with a precise finish. The concentrated 2016, meanwhile,
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