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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 suffered Haut-Brion poisoning on Monday, chiefly because of the over-generous provision of magnums of same the night before: a...
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You can see a couple of scenes of the recent Wine Creators conference in Ronda here in inside information, with...
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After my series of videos showing the media hard at work during Bordeaux primeurs week, I thought you might be...
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Giuseppe Sesti, who makes some fine, traditional Brunello di Montalcino at the Castello di Argiano, sends the following update on...
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We have recently received word of an astonishing new invention intent on revolutionising the world of wine. Russian scientists are...
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Tomorrow I will publish some enthusiastic tasting notes on a selection of top South African wines, some of which I...
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Really, you shouldn’t have… No sooner had I stepped off the plane here in Hong Kong than I got several...
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The annual offer of cult Napa Valley Cabernet Screaming Eagle’s latest vintage was mailed out at the end of last...
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The media concentrated on the gloom, doom and chill winds that were suppposed to have dominated the 2008 World Economic...
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This week’s Sonoma County scuttlebutt is that Constellation Brands, which purchased Fortune Brands’ Beam Wine Estates division in December for...
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Bordeaux, by which of course I mean those involved in wine in Bordeaux, is abuzz with speculation and downright panic...
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It’s a sign of the times that a wine bottler is making a song and dance about a new bottle...
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As I explained here, we celebrated the start of the New Year on Jan 1 rather than Dec 31 with...
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As I explained here , we got back from our family holiday only on Saturday night 29 Dec. On 25...
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The EU wine reform, officially summarised here, was, inevitably, a compromise. The original proposals (downloadable here) put forward by EU...
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ACNielsen, the company that began telling Americans what their neighbours were watching on tv in the 1960s, is in the...
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