If all goes according to plan, I'll start to publish my tasting notes in the week beginning Nov 15 and will publish my overview of the vintage in the FT and here on Saturday 20 Nov. In the meantime here...
Rhône round-up
Monday 25 October 2010
As I have just pointed out in our Members' forum, I spent much of last week tasting Rhône 2009s – mainly in the south but also in the north. I'll be supplementing the hundreds of tasting notes I made sur place with many more in London made at next month's cluster of tastings for various UK merchants' Rhône 2009 offers.
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