I had the huge pleasure of tasting these 43 Baroli 2008s blind last September under the auspices of the magazine World of Fine Wine . I was tasting with Italian specialist Nicolas Belfrage MW and...

Last month Berry Bros invited dozens of leading Bordeaux producers over to London to show their 2011s alongside the vintage with which they are most often compared, the 2008s. Below are my...

See our Nebbiolo guide for a full list of articles and tasting notes from the 2012 Nebbiolo Prima. Here's why Walter thinks we should all buy Barolo 2008s. This May I spent a full week...

Yesterday's release of Pontet-Canet 2011 at a price dramatically reduced from the level of the 2010 was the first real runaway success of the campaign (£720 a dozen now constitutes a bargain...

For my tasting notes on all these wines, see Southwold 2008s – right bank and ⁞ Southwold 2008s – left bank , and for the dinner wines, Avery-underwritten La Mission dinner . For...

See also  Southwold 2008s – right bank .  See  Bordeaux 2008 - the last affordable vintage  for my overview and a  full description of the...

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).  See Bordeaux...

The Merignac–Gatwick route was busy last week with Bordeaux wine producers coming over to London for various showings of their latest vintages to British consumers and trade. In addition to...

I'm very grateful to Flint Wines for organising a major horizontal tasting of representative 2008 red burgundies last week. The wines were picked so late and evolved so slowly in the cellar that...

11 Feb - For a useful overview of the value offered by the 2008 vintage, stylistic evolution on the right bank, and how a new classification will be achieved, see this from...

On a rainy Saturday in September 2008, the 13th, to be precise, Aubert de Villaine of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (pictured) began to think they would not be making any wine in 2008. However, on...

The annual Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux tasting in London - and various other cities around the world - provides a useful opportunity to taste the last but one vintage, 2008 in this case, now...

From £11.50 and $17.99 Find this wine Buying white burgundy from the Côte d'Or heartland has become a perilous business, thanks to the apparently unpredictable threat of...

The Cru Bourgeois classification, sullied by its annulment by the French government in 2007, has been relaunched with an overhauled qualification system that emphasises its objectivity. The new...

Nearly 60 grand cru burgundies in one tasting session is rare, to say the least. Though nearly 60 burgundies of any sort in an upper, non-air-conditioned room on a very hot day in London is asking...