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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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Most of the changes made to the directory of wine merchants on this site are additions of the bevy of...
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There’s no doubt in my mind and on my palate that there is huge potential for Hungarian reds and dry...
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Now that Chile has established that the majority of vines it used to call Merlot are in fact the old...
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A special screening of Jonathan Nossiter's documentary film Mondovino followed by a discussion organised by the French wine magazine La...
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Vast American/Australian wine conglomerate Constellation's bid for the entire Mondavi Corporation makes a lot of sense, but I wonder whether...
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Last night's great Wine Options evening organised by Bibendum Wine in London in aid of Wine Relief was a great...
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We all know about vanity publishing, a wannabe author footing the printing bill themselves in order to see their work...
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OK, London has many advantages over New York but I just couldn't think of anywhere in London able to offer...
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When Britain's soaraway supermarket group Tesco can offer a perfectly serviceable Chilean Merlot for £2.98 a bottle when UK excise...
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Chile has the ideal conditions for organic viticulture with its dry climate and exceptionally low incidence of vine pests and...
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According to Anthony Barton, practically the only cru class é owner to actually live in the M édoc, his underperforming...
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My article Making wine not stronger but better has been published in a dozen or so publications around the world...
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Wine producers in New Zealand’s premier Sauvignon Blanc region Marlborough were shocked last week to find that the winner of...
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06 sep Mondavi employees are apparently currently being asked to draw up complete inventories of everything in their bailiwick. Not...
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The managing director of Australian synthetic cork manufacturer Nukorc – sorry, NuKorc – finally caught up with my article Will...
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A fascinating small dinner this summer in London showed just how good the old English bottlings could be. As well...
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