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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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US importer of fine German wines, David Schildknecht, a frequent contributor to purple pages, files this report on how German...
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You may remember my less-than-enthusiastic review of William Echikson's book Noble Rot: A Bordeaux Wine Revolution. I was invited on...
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Strangely spirited There was a time, back in the late 1970s, when I edited a magazine called Wine & Spirit...
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What better proof could there be of the Renaissance of Ros é (first trumpeted here more than two years ago...
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There is great joy in being back in our little village in the Languedoc for the summer, even if the...
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We all know by now that Australian 2004 grape harvest was enormous (see Drowning in wine). But proportionately the New...
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Several of you have asked about the long-touted new wine magazine The World of Fine Wine and now, at last...
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The two most creative ideas for selling wine that I have seen recently have both been in Asia. You know...
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I don't know about you, but I am particularly intrigued that an outfit as traditional and pivotal as Domaine Leflaive...
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In Piedmont last week I took part in a big annual Barbera tasting at which the wines are served blind...
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One recurring theme during my recent visit to Germany was vineyard labour. Just who nowadays is prepared to work those...
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How do you feel about drinking wine from a glass without a stem? I ask because Riedel, wine glass designers...
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How do you feel about drinking wine from a glass without a stem? I ask because Riedel, wine glass designers...
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One of the most enjoyable and interesting dinners so far this year took place in March during a weekend spent...
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Red bordeaux from the 1982 vintage has reached that daunting stage when it is so valuable that many of those...
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One of Britain's more moribund wine specialist retailers Unwins announced yesterday the launch of a potentially exciting and revitalising initiative...
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