Videos

This week I have been mainly in the Côte de Nuits. Enthusiastic poster on our Members' forum , German wine enthusiast Symon Brown will be glad to know that I managed to make time to visit his heroine Cecile Tremblay yesterday and that, having rented space in the old co-op in the back. More...

The film below shows how oak barrels are made, at Australia's only winery cooperage, at Yalumba in the Barossa Valley. (The photograph below shows an additional un-filmed stage, when barrels are toasted to order.) Yalumba use imported French and American oak which they turn into. More...

During the Saturday before the big Hospices de Beaune wine auction (see this video ), there is a huge wine tasting in a large convention centre outside the city to which anyone can go and many locals - especially young people, I was delighted to see - do. All they have to do is buy a ticket and. More...

This short film was made at the Chapitre des Chevaliers du Tastevin dinner at the Château du Clos de Vougeot the weekend before last, as described in Breaking my Hospices duck . The musicians at Clos de Vougeot are all amateurs apparently but play to a very high level. Must be the wine. . More...

As I explained in Breaking my Hospices duck , the single most prestigious lot in this year's Hospices de Beaune sale the weekend before last, the so-called Pièce du Président, a barrel of Corton Clos du Roy 2011, was finally acquired by Stephen Williams of the Antique Wine Company, London, for. More...

Here's a very brief extract from Robert Parker's tasting of 20 bordeaux 2009s on Tuesday morning at WineFuture Hong Kong. It was hyped as The Magical 20 , and already merchants are trying to stir things up as though this selection is somehow definitive. But it should be said that Parker. More...

Below is the hall where the WineFuture HK tastings were held, just before my Beyond Bordeaux tasting began. The picture above left is of Robert Parker presenting from the stage from which this little film was shot. (Got that?) Read how I would have done things differently at  WineFuture HK -. More...

Today is the last of the two and a half days of the massive wine-trade get together that is WineFuture Hong Kong 2011 . I conducted a tasting called Beyond Bordeaux last night and this morning Robert Parker shows off 20 of his favourite young red bordeaux . The core of the event is a. More...

I had the honour of participating with film director Francis Ford Coppola ( The Godfather , Apocalypse Now et al.) yesterday in the opening press conference at WineFuture Hong Kong , where we were quizzed by 40 or 50 journalists from around the globe, but mainly from Asia. I had to field. More...

See this  guide to this week’s sherry coverage . As I will explain in more detail tomorrow, I spent the morning tasting dozens and dozens of different casks of sherry in the González Byass bodegas with a view to finding the best to blend together to make four very distinctive 'raw'. More...