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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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It’s not often that you turn up for a tasting in a tiny wine shop well outside central London at...
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No-one could love good French wine more than I do, and it’s precisely because of this that the French themselves...
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The Faugères domaine of Jean-Marie Fourrier, the talented young Gevrey Chambertin winemaker, has been up for sale for six months...
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‘Jacobs Creek trounces Trimbach’ could, roughly, be the headline for a fascinating blind tasting exercise staged at Australia House in...
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Quote of the week: 'The world wine market in 2003 would have been in balance only if the US, Australia...
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So Ch Lagrange is out today, at a price that's still £10 more than the 2002 price but, at around...
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Owner of Ch Angelus of St Emilion Hubert de Boüard de Laforest tells me he has invested in South Africa...
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I see that after many years of storing their and their customers' wines at London City Bond in East London...
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Attentive readers will know of my dream to drink wines that offer the same flavours and pleasure as many of...
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Lalou Bize Leroy, the charismatic and capricious progenitor of Domaine Leroy in Vosne Romanée was in London last week to...
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If I had a euro for every time a wine producer or wine merchant used the word classic, or more...
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I write from the less-than-exciting confines of a bog standard hotel room in Bordeaux after 10 o’clock at night, room...
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By complete coincidence, in view of this week’s report on the Best Sommelier in the World, comes news of Britain’s...
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Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper is famous for a lot of things – the infamous and well-endowed page 3 girls and...
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At last night’s Decanter/Christie’s fundraising dinner for the Vilar Young Artists programme in the chilly but glamorous Vilar Floral Hall...
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A representative of Ornellaia rang me yesterday to remind me that this year the Maremma winery celebrates its 20th anniversary...
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