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BACCHUS FOR YOU (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Famed French winemaker Michel Rolland said Napa Valley has more great wines than any other country besides France. In an interview with the Napa Valley Register, Rolland said: "Napa Valley has one of the highest ceilings in the world. Napa Valley is a place where we can find a lot of great wines now." "There are more great wines in Napa Valley than in Italy." He has been visiting Napa for 22 years...
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BACCHUS FOR YOU (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Famed winemaking consultant Michel Rolland is lending his expertise to the Alpha Omega project. Though he’s world famous, and even blamed — along with critic Robert Parker — for making top wines too similar, Michel Rolland is unpretentious and self-effacing in person as he tastes wines. He, along with winemaker Jean Hoefliger and assistant Henrik Poulsen, taste the many batches of wines to determine...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Now the home country of Che Guevara is enjoying somewhat of a revolution. In the past few years, world-class winemakers, including such luminaries as Michel Rolland and the Lurton Brothers, have come to take advantage of the excellent climatic conditions afforded by the Mendoza wine region that... Read the full story.
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Serge the Concierge (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
I am far from being a fan of Michel Rolland. Blame it on documentary Mondo Vino if you will. I...
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Jean-Luc Thunevin's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
After Revue du Vin de France, Decanter published several articles on Pomerol : 4 pages dedicated to it, and this, following a 6 page article on Christian Moueix (man of the year 2008). In the same issue, the title “Italy: the French connection!”. Only Michel Rolland is missing. Maybe he is too famous! Too French! In any case, Michel Rolland is proving (as if he needed it) with Château La Dominique,...
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Write for Wine (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
We finally opened our bottle of 2004 Pedestal Merlot from the Long Shadows Vintner Collection. This fine Columbia Valley wine was created by Michel Rolland, Pomerol vintner and consultant to many of the world's most famous wineries. The wine was excellent — full-bodied, complex and concentrated. It was the perfect wine for a special occasion. However, we [...]
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Avenue Vine (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Michel Rolland, Bruno Prats and other Bordeaux notables claim climate change may have a positive effect on the region. At the recent 2008 Climate Change and Wine conference in Barcelona, Prats and Rolland, along with consultant Pascal Chatonnet and veteran oenologist Jacques Lurton, argued that global warming offered possibilities that were not available in the past. “ The last 10 vintages at Cos...
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JancisRobinson.com (Free subscription) | 25/02/2008
The recent conference on wine and climate change in Barcelona attracted Al Gore, Michel Rolland, Jacques Lurton and Richard Smart, but remarkably few of the locals.
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Avenue Vine (Free subscription) | 26/12/2007
Jonathan Nossiter last night said he had not set out to attack Robert Parker and Michel Rolland in his new book. At the launch of Le Gout et le Pouvoir, in the Alice store in Bordeaux, the Mondovino director said, “ Rolland and Parker are not targets in this book .” Referring to Rolland's fury at the way he was portrayed in Mondovino, he said, “I n fact before making Mondovino I knew very little about...
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Jean-Luc Thunevin's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/12/2007
In the Saturday, December 15 2007 issue of the Figaro Mag, Bernard Burtschy writes quite a positive article on Robert Parker, despite the title. Below, the few lines that caught my eye while reading it in the TGV on my way to Paris to Michel Rolland's birthday party: “… The success of garage wines… Even when presenting in tastings 10, 20 or 50 high level vintages, the top chateaux in Bordeaux were...
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Jean-Luc Thunevin's Blog (Free subscription) | 17/12/2007
After having celebrated his 50th birthday in 1997, this year he turned 60. Born in 1947, it helps to offer as gifts only great bottles to our friend Michel. As for me, I couldn't find any Valandraud 1947 in my cellar, however, Catherine and others were able to find and even offer DRC "la Tâche" 1971 (instead of 1969). Go figure why an enologist famous for his Merlots has a weakness for great Pinots...
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Wine Library TV (Free subscription) | 09/11/2007
Gary Vaynerchuk tastes one of the serious 2005 Bordeaux. Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version. Wines tasted in this episode: 2005 Michel Rolland Episode OneOther Red Bordeaux Links mentioned in todays episode. 2005 Bordeaux Futures vs. 2003 Bordeaux. - Episode #23 2005 Bordeaux: 1st taste out of barrel tasting. - [...]
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Dr. Vino's wine blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2007
“[Winemaking] parameters are dictated by an international taste and by champions of this taste – including Robert Parker, The Wine Spectator and certain Spanish critics like José Peñin. They are then produced by taste bureaucrats like Michel Rolland and hundreds of indigenous enologists like Telmo Rodriguez,” says Mondovino-director Jonathan Nossiter in his new book, Le [...]
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Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 31/10/2007
Jonathan Nossiter last night said he had not set out to attack Robert Parker and Michel Rolland in his new book.
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Spittoon (Free subscription) | 31/10/2007
Discover the secrets of a Bordeaux Grand Cru Classé from the heart of the Medoc and the registered designation Pauillac. Watch the renowned Michel Rolland taste some of the most recent vintages of Pontet-Canet. This USB flash drive contains the wine cellar management software "Open Cellar" as well as a guide to the Grand Cru from the Bordeaux area and their classification, a screensaver and wallpaper...
