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See this guide  to our extensive coverage of Bordeaux 2012. There is one good thing about the Bordeaux 2012 campaign. In stark contrast to last year's attempts to sell 2011 bordeaux, a 'campaign' that spluttered for months, it has started early and is proceeding with reasonable. More...

Just before the annual Tuscan en primeur tastings (on which I will report in detail later this week) last February, I met up with Kerin O'Keefe in Florence. She reports on Italian wines for both Decanter and The World of Fine Wine magazines, while last year she published her second book,. More...

A few years ago London's fine-wine traders and merchants en masse opened up subsidiaries in Hong Kong. As you can see in Asians hoover up top 2009s , there was a time when this was a licence to print money. But the market is not nearly as buoyant as it once was, and anyway the Chinese themselves. More...

While Europe freezes, Melbourne is almost molten with heat, towards the end of yet another record-breakingly hot summer in Australia. Nevertheless the organisers of the annual Melbourne Food and Wine Festival managed as far as I could see to serve all wines at the right temperature. More...

I've never met Mrs Antonio Galloni but she must be very patient and supportive. There she is, expecting her first child, or perhaps with a young baby already, and a husband gainfully employed at Deutsche Bank in New York. His strong leisure interest in wine is usefully funnelled into a respected. More...

I bumped into Andrew Caillard MW and a film crew several times in 2011. They were pretty obviously present at the tasting of the Bordeaux 2010 primeurs in April 2011 - and were rewarded with lovely sunny weather. They were also at Pancho Campo's WineFuture (that turned out to be his swansong). More...

When I had notification yesterday of a special parcel of fine German wines at Majestic, I so much wanted to be the bearer of good news for Purple Pagers, particularly as I have not been a great fan of Majestic's Germans in the past (see Majestic's Germans - not so majestic on Members' forum),. More...

I will return to more vignettes from Burgundy next week, but in the meantime here are just a few vignettes from this week in London. My favourite was at J&B's burgundy 2011 tasting on Monday evening pictured here, bravely postponed to the second full week in January - so a full. More...

On the day that Louis Jadot is presenting its 2011s in London, without their famous wnemaker, Purple Pager and Burgundy resident Gareth Skidmore describes two very different shared moments in the last week before Jacques Lardière retired from Louis Jadot. Yes, Jacques Lardière has rfinally. More...

Last month I took part in the Concorso Enologico Internazionale, or International Wine Competition in Verona, set up and run by Veronafiera, the organisers of Vinitaly. Vinitaly is that monster better known as the biggest wine fair in the world, and Veronafiera's principal cash cow. The. More...