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Results: World’s Best Vineyards 2022

A new Top 50 was announced in Mendoza, Argentina, last night. Canopy was there and here are the results…

Modernising qvevri winemaking

Our editor’s #harvest2022 adventure continues in Georgia. Although he’s making a skin-contact wine in a qvevri, he’s using all the latest techniques – including chilling the qvevri to -1°C to receive the grapes, controlling the temperature of the fermentation, and keeping the cap submerged with French oak staves...

Best cellars

Canopy has been looking at the cellars of the wineries in the new World’s Best Vineyards list. Here are our top 12…

Precision harvesting

At Japanese winery Château Mercian they don’t just select by rows – the harvest date includes the picking hour. Increasingly, it’s 2am!

Why zero sulphur is not the answer…

And other lessons from three wineries in Spain. These lessons include reviving an ancient variety in the face of climate change and making a very clear pet-nát…

An unusual co-fermentation

The rain hits Canopy editor’s crazy #harvest2022 adventure, and he has to come up with a plan B in the beautiful Štajerska Slovenija region…

3 big lessons from new Riesling research

This noble variety seems to have been the subject of some very interesting studies lately. But the findings are significant for all grapegrowers…

3 lessons from the Colli Euganei

What I learned from a brief trip to the Euganean Hills, west of Venice…

Climate change: how Cabernet can survive

Commonly used trellis systems provide zero protection from the sun and heat, but changing the setup could preserve the quality in the face of extreme heat, according to a new study in California…

‘Necessity is the mother of our sustainability’

Garage Wine Co’s Derek Mossman Knapp talks about his old-vine ‘Revival’ project in rural Chile, the company’s unusual methods and his winemaking philosophy…

What exactly do stems add?

In terms of minerals, acids and polyphenols? Canopy looks at new research from Switzerland…

Results: World’s Best Vineyards 2022

Modernising qvevri winemaking

Best cellars

Precision harvesting

Why zero sulphur is not the answer…

An unusual co-fermentation

3 big lessons from new Riesling research

3 lessons from the Colli Euganei

Climate change: how Cabernet can survive

‘Necessity is the mother of our sustainability’

What exactly do stems add?

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Results: World’s Best Vineyards 2022

Modernising qvevri winemaking

Best cellars

Precision harvesting

Why zero sulphur is not the answer…

An unusual co-fermentation

3 big lessons from new Riesling research

3 lessons from the Colli Euganei

Climate change: how Cabernet can survive

‘Necessity is the mother of our sustainability’

What exactly do stems add?

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