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Côte d'Or 2024 – after the misery, an overview
Matthew Hayes
Friday 19 December 2025
• 1 min read
Wine news in 5
Friuli floods, Ste Michelle sold, UK duty hike, French Bloom buys vineyard, LVMH strikes
Plus potential fraud in Vinho Verde, China’s recognition of Burgundy appellations, and the campaign for protected land in Australia’s Barossa. Above, Bibendum’s sobering calculation on the effect of UK excise...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 13 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Hospices de Beaune wine auction 2025
Andy Howard MW
Wednesday 3 December 2025
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In the first of three articles this week about oak, Matthew Hayes shares the secrets of making, and selling, barrels...
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See also 2019s tasted in Burgundy – introduction and this guide to our coverage of 2019 burgundy. Chantal, daughter Clothilde...
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Picking bins have been washed and stacked after the 2020 vintage. The press is packed away. So now is the...
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See also 2019s tasted in Burgundy – introduction and this guide to our coverage of 2019 burgundy. Arnaud Ente is...
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In preparation for three tasting articles based on my visits to some great producers in Burgundy last month, here’s an...
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11 November 2020 See ex-fine-wine trader Matthew Hayes' riposte to this article.
4 November 2020 We are not great fans...
Nick on restaurants
Two weeks in France left Nick open-mouthed in admiration of the French.
Why do eating habits vary so enormously from...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
For most French people who can afford it...
Nick on restaurants
Nick reports from last week in Burgundy.
I volunteered for the task, but then who wouldn’t?
The task itself was...
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Highs and lows are presented here in the latest of an annual series.
Long-term Purple Pagers may recall that a...
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9 September 2020 Rosi Hanson adds that some of her neighbours, Rollin and Pavelot in particular, have gone back to...
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On this bank holiday Monday in the UK, a brief profile of current offerings from a popular supplier in southern...
Max on Oz
Australia's most famous Pinot producer has changed hands. Max finds out what is planned, and hoped for.
When I visited...
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Engaged Purple Pager Jonathan Reeve, author of How to abstain (and author of a useful guide to wine tourism which...
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The perfect way to assess a grand cru. Many thanks to wine photographer Jon Wyand for this image, too.
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