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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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Seven seems not such a lucky number for wine. Fiona Morrison MW of Le Pin in Pomerol wrote to me...
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If you were in charge of a brand – let’s say Rosemount, for example – would you send out an...
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I must get a dozen letters or emails a year from people who want my advice on how to follow...
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As reported here earlier this month, DB Wines (initiated by ConeTech) are trialling a reduced alcohol semi-sparkling wine called Sovio...
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I recently asked a number of California vintners, marketers and industry officials on what might happen to the Golden State’s...
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New Zealand Winegrowers, the generic body for New Zealand wine producers prepared to pay a levy for promotional activity, has...
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Two recent tastings of superior white wines for British Airways First Class passengers could not have been more different. The...
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This is what I wrote, with only the skimpiest of editing, at the British Airways First Class American white tasting...
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Twice in the last week I have unreservedly ventured into a pub to eat and drink a glass of wine...
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Looks as though there are forces other than the Parker effect acting on wine pricces today. In general prices for...
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As at least eight examples of on-screen skulduggery and deception in phone-in programmes are admitted by the BBC Director General...
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Sotheby’s have pulled off the most amazing coup. On July 18 they are selling the contents of what they describe...
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I am too often asked to write forewords, introductions or prefaces for wine books, and am even more often sent...
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I tried Torres’ new(ish) Priorat, Salmos 2005 Priorat, the other day and was particularly interested since I saw the ground...
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Another meal and another lesson: how much more slowly top quality Mosel Riesling ages than top quality red bordeaux. At...
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New recruits to purple pages may not be aware of the ghost of coincidence that regularly stalks members’ forum (and...
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