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Burgundy 2024 – guide to our coverage
Everything we’ve published on this challenging vintage. Find all our published wine reviews here. Above, the town of Meursault in the Côte de Beaune, viewed from Les Grands Charrons vineyard...
Team JR
Monday 12 January 2026
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Burgundy 2024 – UK merchants making offers
Information about UK merchants offering 2024 burgundy en primeur. Above, a pair of ‘brouettes’ for burning prunings, seen in the Richebourg Grand Cru in Vosne-Romanée (photo by Jon Wyand). We...
Team JR
Thursday 8 January 2026
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You may remember I sang the praises of Boutique Wines, a new smallish UK importer of interesting small-production Australian wines...
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There is no doubt that the world of wine on the internet is an exciting one, as witness yesterday’s news...
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Wild and wacky (well, wacky anyway) Neal Martin has entertained us all hugely with his anarchic site www.wine-journal.com, a mixture...
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The French have just introduced mandatory labels on all alcoholic drink, including the finest wines, which warn pregnant women that...
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Hold on for another bee buzzing around my bonnet. It has long been a source of wonder to me that...
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See also A more realistic report on 2006 from Ch Palmer. The St-Emilion, Pomerol and Fronsac Syndicats send the following...
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I hope that you have noticed that I am a particular champion of the small, independent wine retailer. Life is...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. The more wines I taste from...
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Anthony Hanson MW of Christie’s is determined to drag the annual Hospices de Beaune auction of embryonic burgundy into the...
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Harvest reports on the 2006 vintage continue to flow and here’s a selection of some of the more interesting ones...
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New York auctioneer Acker Merrall & Condit shattered the previous world record of $14.4 million for a wine auction by...
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It would seem that the brothers behind Hermès who recently bought Fourcas Hosten have abandoned somewhat fraught negotiations with the...
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The following alphabetical list is a comprehensive guide to the words most commonly used by professionals. (B) is for bad...
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David Gleave MW is an exceptional wine importer. Canadian by birth, he fell in love with wine in the British...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . California wine producers are a...
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Reports from Burgundy, Languedoc and port country outline just how difficult the 2006 season was. Philip Tuck MW, Louis Jadot...
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