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I promised in my earlier video of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti that I would show you something more interesting. The short film below shows the entire 2006 production of DRC. Count those bottles...!
I saw it on my way to the underground tasting chamber at the Domaine where Aubert de. More...
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Italy does quite well for wine guides but some of them are pretty unwieldy. Gambero Rosso’s Italian wines , for example, well known for its tre bicchiere (three glasses) awards, includes 2,256 producers and 18,000 wines rated, though not that many tasting notes. It’s a thick, heavy. More...
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I’m now back home after a week’s immersion in 2007s in Burgundy and then Châteauneuf-du-Pape with hundreds of tasting notes – a very high proportion of them favourable.
Needless to say, the style of the 2007s in Burgundy is completely different from those of the Châteauneufs,. More...
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Italy does quite well for wine guides but some of them are pretty unwieldy. Gambero Rosso’s Italian wines , for example, well known for its tre bicchiere (three glasses) awards, includes 2,256 producers and 18,000 wines rated, though not that many tasting notes. It’s a thick, heavy. More...
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Believe it or not, the wine range at the decidedly downmarket ASDA supermarket chain, now owned by Walmart, has been revitalised by a Francophile Master of Wine. Philippa Carr MW admits that she is personally Eurocentric, even Francocentric, but she has assembled quite a collection of bargain. More...
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See a few dozen recent tasting notes on Clarion wines and how they stck up against the opposition in [URL="http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a200811241.html"]Hemming's round-up[/URL]. More...
And ours at Resources/Learn about wine/[URL="http://www.jancisrobinson.com/categories/vintages.html"]Vintages[/URL] is pretty useful, I hope. A lot of work went into it and we try to give much more information than just a number. More...
All these seem great suggestions to me, but do look at our UK mass retailer roundups, Danny.
If you start with [URL="http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a20081115.html"]ASDA[/URL], published last Friday, and then look at the related articles via the Tags system (which, since Thursday, now. More...
