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David Lett, the man who led Oregon into ambitious vine growing in general and the cuttings of Pinot Noir he planted in theh 1960s (see below) in particular, died on Thursday night after a long illness. His passing was sufficiently important to inspire this tribute in today’s New York. More...
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Our party of eight, which included six first timers to El Bulli , met up in the bar of the Hotel Terraza in the nearest town, Roses on the Costa Brava, for a glass of champagne before our taxis arrived to take us to the restaurant.
During that period two of the men, both in finance in. More...
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It is difficult to exaggerate how much Argentine wines have changed in the last few years. But perhaps that is not so surprising considering that the world’s fifth most important wine producer has been exporting its wines seriously for hardly more than a decade.
Until quite recently a. More...
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Latest tasting articles
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Almost all wine-producing countries are making better and better wines every year but I am seriously impressed by how much more refined Argentine wines are today than they were even two or three years ago. I may well be wrong but this seems to have happened less as a response to market demand –. More...
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See Sauvignon – methoxypyrazines v thiols for the background to this tasting in London with Saint Clair winemaker Matt Thomson (pictured left).
I have given UK stockists and/or prices for a few of the wines but some are either no longer commercially available or sold through. More...
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Although sadly, using cleaner cuttings has not proved a panacea and some more fundamental work is having to be done - notably at Vergelegen - to rout the viruses for good.
The main tasteable effect of leafroll in my experience of tastiung South African wines is a lack of full ripeness rather. More...
Yes I noticed this. Looks as though there are some good deals here. L & W's Burgundy buyer John Thorogood is very sound and the wines will have been moved only once. More...
Dear Purple Pagers
Etxebarri is a bit tricky to find, but well worth the trouble. We dined there twice in October 2007. If you search for "Axpe" on viaMichelin you will find that the marker is near a village marked "San Juan". That is the location of Etxebarri, in Plaza San Juan near the. More...
