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We were guests of the Gaja family in Piedmont, and got a rare look behind the famous name.

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The Gaja family takes its wines to new heights

A glimpse behind the scenes.

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Meretes selection: Great champagne, from a great vintage at a nice price

A 13-year-old blanc de blancs champagne in magnum for 1,300 kroner is a rare find.

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Magical white wine from precipitous vineyards

Max Kilburg had to fight to keep the steep vineyards. Now he makes one of Vinmonopolet's very best wine buys, released on November 4.

This Week's Picks: Great champagne, greater format.

All big occasions, all cellars and all parties deserve a champagne in large format.

Eye to eye with Jeff Brinkman - Rhys

Rhys is one of California's most renowned micro-wineries. For 20 years, winemaker Jeff Brinkman has crafted their brilliant wines.

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Meretes selection: Great champagne, from a great vintage at a nice price

A 13-year-old blanc de blancs champagne in magnum for 1,300 kroner is a rare find.

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Rarely has a Riesling provided more value for money than these two

They are finally back. Max Kilburg's magical Rieslings from the Mosel. But they won't be released at Vinmonopolet until November 4.

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Meretes selection: This is how a chenin blanc should taste

Wondering what the chenin blanc grape is supposed to taste like? Then try Aubert's Vouvray.

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Great riesling with great value

Knewitz can definitely do more than just make chardonnay. This riesling is truly value for money.

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Mature chianti with lamb

Felsina's single-vineyard Chianti also costs the same as it did eight years ago.

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Meretes selection: A supertuscan in magnum for 580 kroner

The Biondi-Santi family has made a brilliant and, not least, affordable "super Tuscan" that is now available in magnum.

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Incredibly delicate Nebbiolo at a great price

Davide Rosso has crafted a delicate little masterpiece of a Nebbiolo in 2024.

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Weekly Selection: A red wine steal at 180 kroner

Alvaro and Maria Castro have made a wine in Portugal's Dão that is one of Vinmonopolet's absolute best red wine buys.

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Weekly selection: An outstanding chardonnay in box

Justin Tyler Willett from California has made an impressive boxed chardonnay that not only reflects the grape, but also the region in a superb way.

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Weekly Selection: Château du Hureau Lisagathe

On Wednesday, September 2nd, this gem of a red wine magnum will be released in Vinmonopolet's online store.

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Cellar Episode 6: Inside Rome's oldest wine cellar.

Rome's oldest wine cellar is over 2,000 years old.

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Cellar Episode 5: Lopez de Heredia

There are not many wine cellars around the world as untouched as Lopez de Heredia in Rioja.

Places

Restaurant Schrøder. Home made snaps and a working class specialty

Restaurant Schrøder is not the place you go for the wine list. It is the place you go for everything else.

Arakataka

Visit 1884 Francis Mallmann

An Argentine oasis in the heart of Mendoza.

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Del Belbo da Bardone

Fifteen years with Barbera

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Places: Zeltinger Hof - The Riesling Cellar on the Mosel

"Gasthaus des Rieslings", aka Zeltinger Hof in Zeltingen-Rachtig, with more than 2,500 wines in the cellar.

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Places: Bodega El Capricho - How far can you travel for a steak?

El Capricho serves world-famous steak, but it was perhaps the wine list that impressed the most.

The perfect long lunch in the Basque Country

Few master the art of grilling fish better than Kaia-Kaipe in Getaria in the Spanish Basque Country.

The closest you get to Paris in Norway

Hotel Charmante and restaurant Chérie in Skostredet in Bergen are a journey back in time to Les Années folles.

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Eye to eye with Jeff Brinkman - Rhys

Rhys is one of California's most renowned micro-wineries. For 20 years, winemaker Jeff Brinkman has crafted their brilliant wines.

Producer portraits

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The Gaja family takes its wines to new heights

A glimpse behind the scenes.

Iduna Weinert inherited 263 barrels. And her father's dream.

Argentina's finest winemaker is taking on new ground, and planting vines in Patagonia.

The Lequin-Colin family has made wine in Burgundy since 1673

The Lequin-Colin family has made wine in Burgundy since 1673 and has distinguished itself as perhaps the best producer in Santenay, in southern Burgundy. The family business came to be when the parents of today's generation François Lequin-Colin his father, René Lequin, married Josette Colin. She came from another well-known wine family in the neighboring village of Chassagne-Montrachet, and together they built up a small, family-run vineyard in 1992.

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The world's most famous wine cooperative

The world's most famous wine cooperative was born when Domizio Cavazza founded the Cantine Sociali di Barbaresco in 1894, in the small village of Barbaresco.

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Nicolas Lemaire has one of the oldest vineyards in the whole area of Champagne

Nicolas Lemaire produced his first Blanc de Blancs and Blanc de Noir Champagnes from one of the oldest vineyards in the whole area of Champagne.

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Inside Kühling-Gillot

The wines of Kühling-Gillot from Roter Hang are among Germany's very best dry Rieslings. Now they have started to release older wines from their own treasure trove in Hohen-Sülzen.

Pascal Clement and his wineyard Les Guettottes

Just a short distance from Beaune lies the village of Savigny-Lès-Beaune, a small, quiet town in a side valley that most people never notice as they travel through Burgundy.

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The September Release: Best Value Picks

Out of around 1200 fresh wines tasted for Vinmonopolet's September release, these are the 30 best buys.

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Faces

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Julian Huber's wines from 2024 are here!

At the November release, Julian Huber launched his first wines from a brilliant 2024.

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Magical white wine from precipitous vineyards

Max Kilburg had to fight to keep the steep vineyards. Now he makes one of Vinmonopolet's very best wine buys, released on November 4.

Theo's next dance

What happens when you take over a world-famous Burgundy domaine at nineteen?

Maffrei: "The bros in Wine"

In a former Lancia garage, two brothers have shifted Piedmont into a new gear.

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Le Case della Saracca – The most important address in Piedmont

Out of a 800-year-old ruin, a pharmacist built one of the world's most extraordinary wine hotels

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Marisa Bacher: New generation in Barolo

Marisa Bacher represents the new generation of small producers cementing their place at the heart of Barolo.

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Cheese and Wine

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Cheese and wine, Part 1: Burrata and caprese

In its freshest, purest form, the world's most eaten cheese is also summer's finest.

Cheese & wine, part 2: Feta and greek white wine

Feta and Greek white wine have shared the same hills and the same sun for centuries. And it shows.

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Cheese and wine, part 3: Cheddar and Champagne. An underrated duo

Perhaps the world's most eaten cheese, and certainly the most underrated.

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Cheese and wine, part 4: Manchego og Sherry

You've probably eaten it a hundred times. Here's a taste of the story behind Spain's most famous cheese.

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Cheese and wine, part 5: Chevre og sancerre

The white goat cheeses, or chèvre in French, are probably not the cheeses that are easiest to like the first few times you taste them.

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Cheese and wine, part 6: Chevre from Provence

If you're giving a cheese and wine experience as a hostess gift, banon and a bottle of Château Simone is the perfect solution.

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Cheese and wine, part 7: Citeaux og burgunder

If you manage to get hold of a citeaux, there is every reason to open a great white Burgundy.

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Cheese and wine, part 8: Serra de Estrella og hvit douro

This is Portugal's most famous cheese, and one of my absolute favourites.

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Cheese and wine, Part 9: Appenzeller and petit arvigne

If you're going to pick one place in Switzerland to enjoy Appenzeller cheese, it should be Aescher

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Cheese and wine, part 10: Vesterbottenost + pai :)

Västerbotten cheese and mature Rioja are a perfect combination.

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