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Côte d'Or 2024 – after the misery, an overview
After extensive tasting and talking to producers up and down Burgundy’s Côte d’Or, Matthew surveys the vintage. Above, the tellingly empty cellars at Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair in Vosne-Romanée. To...
Matthew Hayes
Friday 19 December 2025
• 1 min read
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New GG releases in 2025 – reds
Paula Redes Sidore
Monday 20 October 2025
• 7 min read
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It is almost two years since I enjoyed a blind tasting of (mostly) Australian Pinot Noir with Tom Carson, winemaker...
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Of all the varieties, Pinot Noir and Riesling seem to inspire particular fervour. Two recent London tastings, both blind, emphasised...
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Last week I had the huge pleasure of taking part in an enormously revealing blind tasting at Hardy's wine bar...
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The Austrians are at it again. They have held several significant blind comparisons of their own top wines with similar...
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Last week my bloodstream was replaced by a stream of 2008 burgundy in my veins...
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Announcing a theme for this week: our beloved Pinot Noir, source of all fine red burgundy and a grape that...
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Written by Tim James. Pinot Noir was probably first planted in South Africa in the 1920s (the crossing with Cinsaut...
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(Those of you who feel that, what with this and our recent tasting notes on German Pinot Noirs, we are...
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See a lively discussion regarding German Pinot Noir on our members' forum. Every year since 2002 the Institute of Masters...
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