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Here is a quick guide to finding your way round our  wide-ranging coverage to date of the very promising 2010 vintage in Burgundy with its more than 2,000 wine reviews.  TASTING NOTES/REVIEWS Burgundy 2010 A-C  (Tasting articles)  Burgundy 2010 D-J. More...

Spectrum/Vanquish’s blithe PR machine is at it again. Under the headline ‘Inaugural Fine Wine Auction with Spectrum Wine Auctions LLC and Vanquish Wine Ltd Re-defines London Fine Wine Market’, the following has just been sent by their publicist:   (9 February,. More...

See Southwold 2008s – right bank . Here is the longer, second instalment of my notes from a comprehensive blind tasting of all the top wines of Bordeaux, and many others besides - 197 wines in all. Alas, real successes in the lower ranks are more elusive in this particularly. More...

D'Arenberg of McLaren Vale celebrated their centenary last week, jollifications undimmed, I'm told, by the fact that party animal Chester Osborn was not 100% mobile. He and 84-year-old d'Arry shared reminiscences and launched a wine called Dadd (sic) in commemoration. One of the celebrants. More...

January brought an epic parade of more than 2,000 Burgundy 2010 tasting notes to JancisRobinson.com. If, perchance, this passed you by (where have you been?!), then you can catch up by reading a guide to our coverage here . However, it wasn't all Pinot and Chardonnay. Below are. More...

Here are my notes on all of the right-bank wines tasted at this year's major blind tasting of Bordeaux's four-year-old vintage in the seaside town of Southwold (pictured). An overview and full description of the tasting follows on Saturday. See here for my notes on the even more numerous. More...

We are publishing Alder's February contribution a little early this month, in time for the controversial wine auction scheduled for tomorrow* night (Wed 8 Feb) in London by Spectrum Wine Auctions of California and Vanquish Wine of London. See details of these two companies here , and some. More...

I took this hazy early-morning picture from our hotel room yesterday morning just before the FEIRT two-day Rieslingfest . But what a great welcome Sydneysiders gave us on Saturday night. The fourth annual wine gala dinner organised by the indefatigable Australian chapter of Room to Read raised. More...

As well as the flood of Burgundy 2010 notes that dominated January on Purple Pages, there were plenty of other tasting notes on all sorts of wines to tickle your fancy. These include nine standout standalone tasting notes (in other words, notes that do not appear in a published article but. More...

See Erbaluce - grape discovery of the year for Walter's introduction to this variety and its home territory in north-west Italy, as well as a description of the key styles of wine produced there. These tasgting notes are divided by style - first sparkling, then still and dry, and finally. More...