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Tasting articles are the way we publish our most important groups of tasting notes, typically horizontals (one vintage, different producers) or verticals (one producer, different vintages) or from one particular region. Reluctantly, and only because we know how useful they are, we give scores, out of 20, European-style. We also suggest suitable drinking dates because we feel strongly that the wine trade doesn't give us consumers nearly enough advice about when to drink their wines. See more details of What our scores mean.

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The following notes were taken at a super-luxurious comparative tasting hosted by Christie's in London back in November 2005. I'm publishing them as part of my intention to beef up the number of reviews we offer of wines that are ready to drink or approaching drinkability.. More...
Most of my tasting notes are taken at professional tastings, increasingly straight on to a laptop , e-notebook or even occasionally straight on to my Blackberry. But I do carry round paper notebooks like the one shown here so that I can take notes on particularly significant wines at social. More...
Our second offer in this Older Bordeaux Week focuses on one of the most distinctive and traditional properties on the right bank.  This magnificent vertical tasting took place over a dinner in the private room at Taillevent in Paris on 14 Dec 2007 to celebrate the secret of our host Thierry. More...
We start our Older Bordeaux Week with a look at two of my favourite properties whose wines can offer so much savour, distinctive character and great balance. Last month I was lucky enough to attend a dinner at Quo Vadis in Soho, London organised by Bibendum Wine and designed to. More...
Last week I had the enormous treat of tasting dozens of top quality wines, many of them very mature,  from Ridge in California to celebrate this great producer's half-century. You can read a bit of background in this week's wine of the week and much more in Ridge - a California. More...
See below for 117 tasting notes, many of them enthusiastic, on these first showings of these two superior vintages. The Consorzio of Chianti Classico showed mild optimism during last month's en primeur presentation of 2008 Chianti Classico and the 2007 Riserva wines in Florence. At. More...
Faced with an array of more than 500 Austrian wines at a tasting in London earlier this month, I found it hard to know where to start, and where to finish (I think I was the last one standing...). My original intention was to focus on whites from the 2009 vintage, to see if my impression of the. More...
UK specialist organic wine importer Vintage Roots has clearly been checking their biodynamic calendar because I did this tasting on a flower day, and whether or not that had an effect, it was certainly a very enjoyable tasting from start to finish. Leading lights were the Pievalta Verdicchios. More...
Although Iris Ellmann usually holds an annual tasting for press and private customers in London at the start of each year, this one in particular was also celebrating the WineBarn's 10th anniversary . The tasting notes are in alphabetical order by producer (sur)name, apart from Solter's sparkling. More...
I tasted the following 70+ wines in a freezing cold Majestic wine warehouse in London recently.  They are all new lines or new vintages, apparently, and although many of the wines seem average rather than inspiring, there are certainly some examples to pique the interest of British wine. More...
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