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Bordeaux 2025 – a pivotal en primeur campaign?
Nick Martin reflects as another en primeur campaign winds up. Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste (pictured above) bundled a visit to the property with the en primeur purchase of their ‘variation case’ this...
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I had breakfast with the French Minister of Agriculture yesterday, the way you do. Actually, it was a breakfast meeting...
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Well I trod the boards for the first time since I was 17 last Saturday night – for about 10...
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‘The people have spoken and the Ontario wine industry appears to have listened.’ So begins a report in yesterday’s Canadian...
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The super-fastidious New York Times published a story on Sunday in which writer Frances Dinkelspiel detailed the opposition in northern...
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All is far from well at Vinfolio, the ambitious San Francisco-based fine-wine retailer, storage company and cellar-management company described here...
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Post script – J&B have very kindly suggested that I taste some leftover samples of the Bruno Clair wines that...
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There is bad news on the Burgundy 2008 front, and not just that I am starting to taste wines lower...
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A thing of beauty or a 75cl joke? Any guesses as to where this bottle of wine may have come...
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'World renowned interior designer Nina Campbell presents the perfect wine glass', gushes a press release on behalf of this talented...
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6 Jan – First part of three interviews now posted on www.wineontherocks.com. The bust behind me is of Will Shakespeare...
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This has spawned a lively thread in our Members' forum. I am at pains to stress that this is entirely...
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Earlier this year, news rocked the usually placid German wine scene that 15 or so of the country’s top producers...
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The game is afoot. This week, I and several dozen wannabe MWs congregated at the Austrian Trade Commission in London...
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