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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’ve spent much of this week and last tasting German wine and am very excited about the 2005s and increasingly...
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A quick flip through today’s Harpers and Off Licence News reveals the following: The value of wine sold through UK...
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Well we did rather wonder how the bourbon-based company Jim Beam was going to digest the Cockburn’s port and Harvey...
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Okay, here’s the inside story of the famous Paris re-run, if you’re not thoroughly bored with it all by now...
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Next month the EU is expected to announce a dramatically revised package of measures designed to achieve profound reform of...
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Just in from Farr Vintners, the London wine merchant that seems to have adopted a fairly confrontational attitude to selling...
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Bordeaux rumour has it that Jean-Bernard Delmas, long-serving but now retired manager of Ch Haut-Brion, is to be engaged by...
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Journalists, don’t you hate ‘em? We who have the power to put a spin on things, don’t like it at...
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Lots of mutterings about just how much money founder Jean Phillips may have garnered from the sale of her Screaming...
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Hold on for a major announcement any day now about the sale of a top Bordeaux château to one of...
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Hold on for a major announcement any day now about the sale of a top Bordeaux château to one of...
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I recently had a chance to try out what seems to be latest gadget designed to add years to a...
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Julia Harding writes: It may come as a bit of a surprise to some that the Institut National des Appellations...
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Mel Knox, barrel broker extraordinaire of San Francisco, files details of the movie everyone’s talking about. The third in a...
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The Oxford University Wine Circle is one of that famous old university’s most popular and senior societies for students. It...
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In Hong Kong I bumped into Tim Mondavi who was there, like me, because of a wine-related fundraiser and charity...
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