{"id":9823,"date":"2019-02-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2022-05-05T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T10:51:57","slug":"talking-wine-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/talking-wine-february-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Wine &#8211; February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><time class=\"w-post-elm post_date entry-date published\" datetime=\"2019-02-20T16:00:00+00:00\" title=\"20 February 2019 at 16:00:00 Europe\/London\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">7 years ago<\/time><div class=\"w-separator size_small\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h1>Talking Wine &#8211; February 2019<\/h1>\n<p>It might be worth checking your wine rack this week end. Were you sitting on a bottle of 1945 Domaine de Roman\u00e9e Conti it would have fetched \u00a3424,000 for the one bottle in a recent auction. In the same auction, in New York, a bottle of 1926 Macallan reached \u00a3650,000. Has the world gone completely mad?!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A Californian winery has left some Oregon wine growers really angry after cancelling a contract to buy grapes from them. The grapes would normally go into Oregon sourced branded wines made in the Napa Valley but the Californians have been stretching the law and are now in breach of federal labelling laws which state that 95% of the fruit must come from that region and that the wine has to be bottled in state. Instead of holding their hands up they have used the excuse that the grapes are tainted with smoke following the recent fires in that area . However the growers claim that it is bogus and just a &#8220;smokescreen&#8221; for getting out of legal contracts. The amount of smoke damage appears very low and the levels of Guiacol and Methylguico, the compounds released by burning wood, were well below any levels of concern.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of a friend who, a few years ago, had his peaches rejected by a large supermarket as they were the wrong shape. Rather strange that the previous shipment was no different but the supermarket share price has just taken a dip after some bad publicity. An extraordinary coincidence!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_small\"><\/div><div class=\"w-post-elm post_author vcard author color_link_inherit with_ava avapos_top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/author\/owcemily\/\" class=\"fn\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><div class=\"post-author-ava\" style=\"font-size:96px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-96x96.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/116377708_608815716686001_1898708497719331632_n-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/div><\/a><div class=\"post-author-meta\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordwine.co.uk\/owc\/author\/owcemily\/\" class=\"post-author-name fn\">Emily Silva<\/a><div class=\"post-author-info\">Emily is Head of Retail and Marketing at The Oxford Wine Company. 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