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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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7 Dec – see here for a revised version of this story. Tesco’s wine supremo Dan Jago was recently invited...
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Back home in London under an avalanche of samples sent for review, it is strange for me to reflect on...
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Well, well, well, Michelin finally gets round to Tokyo and, as ever, the publicity that ensues seems to be for...
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Most unusually, last week I caught sight of two new, very high profile London restaurants before my esteemed husband and...
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Yesterday I went to Milan to taste the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux’s showing of the glamorous 2005 bordeaux...
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The California rumour mill is turning extra fast at the moment with whispers that Beam Wine Estates, the company created...
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Does the world really need another Riedel stem? Oregon winemakers thought so, Georg Riedel of Riedel Glas Austria eventually agreed...
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Australian viticulturist Dr Richard Smart, deeply critical of a recent conference on climate change held in Chicago, directed me last...
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To celebrate 130 years of its unique yellow colour, Veuve Clicquot tell me they have created the limited edition and...
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Most companies like to bury bad news but if there’s one thing that Oddbins, the UK chain of once-quirky wine...
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Of all non European wine-producing countries, South Africa has most energetically hung its hat on the concept of terroir. Not...
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Yesterday I tasted my first example of the new mongrel Vin de Pays, a Vin de Pays des Vignobles de...
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We had some discussion here in members’ forum about what to buy to celebrate this year’s important birthday for those...
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Greedy masochists might be interested to see the full menu of what I was served at Thomas Keller's French Laundry...
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Further to my despairing report (see Foster's – the case of the disappearing wine brands) on the recent activities of...
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Woolworths is a chain of distinctly downmarket stores throughout the UK but someone there has had a brilliant idea and...
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