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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 thought purple pagers might enjoy an insight into the domestic life of perhaps the most fanatical and fastidious wine...
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In Britain there is increasing excitement among traders and lovers of fine wine at the looming changes to the UK...
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The Champenois are horrified but the French in general were the first to congratulate the European Commission on the wine...
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Last Monday’s Montrose-athon – 37 vintages back to 1880 over lunch and dinner at Taillevent in Paris (I know, I...
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[For the long and fascinating correspondence that has resulted from this, see your turn.] David Schildknecht was moved by one...
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I'm indebted to my friend and colleague Gerald Asher for drawing my attention to this great report from the LA...
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Autumn has come early to Europe, as Steve Dutton reports. Here in the Languedoc temperatures have plummeted, blankets have been...
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At last comes the not-so-surprising news that Brian Croser, Australian wine’s most prominent and certainly most cosmopolitan industry figure, is...
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We used to think Margaret River, the jewel in Western Australia’s wine crown, was a sleepy little backwater but it’s...
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Today is a good day for wine lovers to use Narbonne rail station, Carcassonne airport and enter or exit the...
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The Emperor of Wine , a biography of Robert Parker by journalist Elin McCoy, is published this month in the...
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Few tears will be shed at the demise of one of the ugliest but at one stage one of the...
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At this year’s Vinexpo in Bordeaux, a panel of high-profile wine tasters were given the job of roaming the halls...
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Every year the excellent wine faculties of Adelaide/Roseworthy, Charles Sturt/Wagga Wagga and several other Australian universities churn out scores of...
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What a walkover! In this year’s International Wine & Spirit Competition, the annual wine competition that has been held in...
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It’s boiling hot in western Europe for the first time this year so it must be Vinexpo time. Today’s temperatures...
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