Panos Kakaviatos, Author at Wine Review Online

Dinner at Le Meurice in Paris with 100% Merlot by Edmond de Rothschild

by Panos Kakaviatos | December 9, 2021

Dinner at the two-star Michelin Alain Ducasse Le Meurice in Paris at the hotel bearing the same name last month...

by Panos Kakaviatos | August 19, 2021

Summer 2021 has been somewhat easier for travel despite the threat of new COVID-19 variants Delta and Lambda (and who...

by Panos Kakaviatos | May 28, 2021

From emotions to geeky delights by way of potential bargains, Bordeaux 2020 from barrel has much to offer. When assessing...

by Panos Kakaviatos | March 28, 2021

A recent report from Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the wine trade, indicates “surging” activity in response to news that...

by Panos Kakaviatos | January 28, 2021

The 2018 vintage is the latest Bordeaux in bottle and as I had noted during barrel tastings, it is not...

by Panos Kakaviatos | December 24, 2020

Taking a risk despite Covid-19 to travel to Bordeaux for articles recently published in wine-searcher about the 2018 vintage and...

by Panos Kakaviatos | December 24, 2020

My first visit to Soave in 2013 brought me to Coffele Vintners, whose wines – made from lower yields and...

by Panos Kakaviatos | August 16, 2020

Not too long ago, the highly respected American public news source National Public Radio asked, “Is wine tasting junk science?”...

by Panos Kakaviatos | August 16, 2020

With two high yield vintages in a row, could 2017 and 2018 be softening skyscraping prices in Burgundy? Price watchers...

by Panos Kakaviatos | August 16, 2020

Last month on a high-speed train from Paris to Strasbourg, France, I got nervous as another passenger opposite me kept...

by Panos Kakaviatos | August 16, 2020

When tasting director Hervé Bianchi of Beaune’s Centre Interprofessionnel Techniques des Vins de Bourgogne welcomed me, it was a pleasure...

by Panos Kakaviatos | August 16, 2020

During a tasting in Greece last year, as part of my WSET diploma studies, Konstantinos Lazarakis MW served dry, crisp...