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This little film shows Sylvie Esmonin, one of only five (along with Rousseau, Bruno Clair, Fourrier and, the one I forgot until Jasper reminded me, Jadot) proprietors in the famous Clos... |
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I’m now back home after a week’s immersion in 2007s in Burgundy and then Châteauneuf-du-Pape with hundreds of tasting notes – a very high proportion of them favourable. Needless... |
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Every year I try to assemble a collection of wines for Financial Times readers that I think should be drinking particularly well for celebrations over the year end. There is a horrible shortage... |
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Below is a funny little film of the main reception room at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti which I took while waiting for co-owner Aubert de Villaine (pictured here avec reflections). I saw that... |
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Sharon Page, who describes herself as ‘former hack and more recently a front of house resto manager (my last job was manager of Delia's Restaurant & Bar at Norwich City Football Club)’,... |
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Yesterday I spent tasting 2007 burgundies at various top Côte de Nuits domaines. See below for what one of them, Domaine de la Comte Georges de Vogüé of Chambolle-Musigny, looked like when the... |
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The following tasting notes are compiled from several different tastings held in London in September and October by various importers and merchants. They are organised by style, then... |
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Bisso Atanassov, longstanding purple pager who was for long based in Moscow but who is now studying for a master's degree in viticulture and oenology in Montpellier, sends this report on how the... |
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Below are notes on some top-quality wines that are actually ready to drink, and available to British wine lovers by the single bottle – admittedly provided another 11 are bought.... |
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Mel Jones, currently working on her Master of Wine dissertation, gives us her impressions of 54 of the wines from the main range that Britain’s Majestic chose to show off to the press this... |
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The lowest number of barrels in 21 years went on sale at the Hospices de Beaune auction yesterday and prices for red wines were dramatically lower than last year. This year's total of... |
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The Union des Grands Crus have been travelling the world to show off their 2006s now that they are in bottle. Tomorrow I will provide an overview of how they tasted in London recently, both in... |
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Here, in some haste but in obedient response to this request on the forum, are the notes I managed to take at London wine merchant Goedhuis’s recent wallow in top quality burgundy. Allen... |
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It will be fascinating to see what sort of prices are fetched by the super-starry lots in two major fine wine sales to be held in Hong Kong this month. The first is to be held on... |
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Evening Land Vineyards is an exciting and extremely ambitious new project that spans some first class Pinot Noir sites in Oregon and California. The operation, led by former Hollywood... |















