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Some wine really does get better with age, and not all of it is expensive. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. One of...
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Saturday 20 December 2025
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Sweet and strong wines for the 2025 festive season
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When in January I gave some suggestions about which vintages of bordeaux to drink this year, many of you asked...
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Last year's winner of the Paten prize for an outstanding performance in the Wine & Spirit Education Trust's Diploma exams...
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Last week I witnessed a scene I never thought I'd see: a member of Tesco's wine department arguing passionately about...
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So, Julia and I are just off to Bordeaux, armed with milk thistle, Recaldent and a truly terrifying schedule because...
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Is it outrageous to observe that today consumption is more conspicuous in Britain than in any other comparable country? I...
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08 apr Just back from Bordeaux I can clarify that the Saturday tasting will include older vintages rather than 2005s...
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Leaning into the wind whistling straight off the Atlantic 80 miles away on to his own particular south-west-facing butte of...
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Longstanding visitors to this site may remember my earlier article about the Wine Century Club, an organisation for those who...
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Friday 31 mar 06 at the end of the week after next is the closing date for entries to this...
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Forgive me if you feel this is an abuse of this site but I have to go north tomorrow for...
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For full tasting notes, scores and recommended drinking dates on all 56 1998 red bordeaux tasted see tasting notes section...
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Thought you would like to know that that EU-US wine accord was signed in London this morning. Austria, which currently...
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13 mar: See my tasting note.As predicted here in Pierre Lurton on 2005 , the Château d'Yquem 2002 has just...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. At lunch after last week’s particularly...
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A fine wine sale starts today at Majestic stores in the UK with over 300 wines reduced and reductions of...
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Clever Celtic carver Bernie Fay of Des Plaines, Illinois has prevailed on my good nature and 25 per cent Celtic...
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