Latest Wine News 18th May 2019

The wine worlds moves fast, to keep you up to date, Points on Wine brings you the most important wine stories you need to know about this week.

Andre Lurton, Bordeaux legend and the godfather of Pessac-Leognan and Entre-Deux-Mers has died, aged 94 - Read here

Robert Parker, the first real wine critic has retired, I will have my thoughts on this in a separate post in the coming days - Read here

Symington: Cheap Douro wine is damaging the Douro reputation. I agree with this statement, however it is difficult to control, maybe a classification system is required? - Read here

How do wine regions gain UNESCO World Heritage status? - Read here

Restaurant accidentally gives diners a $6000 bottle of wine, instead of a $500! - Read here

Happy Reading!