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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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Sharon Page, who describes herself as ‘former hack and more recently a front of house resto manager (my last job...
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Just a few quick observations between tastings – many of them of a range of 2007 Rhônes. The north seems...
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I have just posted well over 100 tasting notes on the 2006 bordeaux, but of course there is very much...
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Lindsay Hamilton, pictured here, finally files this report of the UK wine trade wedding of the year. It got left...
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28 Oct - In yesterday's vote in Montalcino, 96% of Brunello producers voted to maintain the status quo in terms...
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Chianti Classico producer Il Borghetto’s fetish for Burgundian bottles has fallen foul of the Chianti Classico Consorzio. Tim Manning, winemaker...
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New legislative proposals will dilute Prosecco still further. The Consorzio Tutela del Vino Prosecco DOC di Conegliano (pictured) e Valdobbiadene...
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Friday just past saw a bitter confrontation between some of the principal protagonists in the Brunellogate affair in a Face...
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Is there no end to Berry Bros’ imperialistic ambitions? Not content with owning most of St James’s in London, they...
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Last night Hugh Johnson and I launched Hallwag's German edition of the latest, 6th edition of the World Atlas of...
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Oh dear, oh dear. The newspapers are full of the terrible problem of tainted powdered milk in China which has...
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Very sad news that Dr Bailey Carrodus, founder of Yarra Yering and pioneer of Australia’s now hugely signficant Yarra Valley...
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See related thread in Members' forum Tonight Channel 4, one of Britain’s four major tv channels, is devoting its top...
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When a product range is launched in an imposing marble-clad room featuring towering mahogany thrones, ornate gold-plated friezes and a...
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Was anyone else surprised listening earlier today to the scientists currently hard at work replicating Big Bang at the CERN...
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On Friday London fine wine merchant Armit (one of those annoying companies that styles itself in nothing but lower case...
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