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The age of rosé
It can pay to age your rosé , Julian Leidy reports from Elizabeth Gabay MW’s Fine Rosé Day conference. We’re living in an age of rosé. A 2023 study by...
Julian Leidy
Tuesday 17 March 2026
• 2 min read
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The Burgundian touch in England's Crouch Valley
The sunny Crouch Valley in Essex lures Burgundians across the Channel to make wine in England. The Times , Britain’s newspaper of record, covered the news that two Burgundian winemakers...
Henry Jeffreys
Monday 16 March 2026
• 3 min read
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Rioja at 100 – revisiting Contino
Ferran Centelles
Monday 16 March 2026
• 2 min read
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We all know that the far south of France is a great source of hand-made, digestible, keenly-priced red wines, but...
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This tasting of 1999 North Rhône wines was much, much better than the 1998 Rhône tasting notes which I reported...
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Here are my tasting notes on about 80 rosés tasted in the last few weeks – mainly 2004s with a...
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The background to this completely blind tasting of Australia v Some of the Best of the Rest and what I...
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Roy Hersh of Seattle, great wine lover and best-known as a port expert has very kindly supplied these great tasting...
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See my overview of the 2003 vintage and the vintage port market and Roy Hersh of Seattle's excellent report at...
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A marked changed of gear was evident in the vertical tasting at Ch Angélus I enjoyed during this year’s primeurs...
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This is not a major set of tasting notes, but I thought I’d publish these few notes on some top...
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Below are current vintages of 65 of many of the finest Cabernets and Bordeaux blends made on either side of...
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It is far from my intention to use this website to inflict pain but, having mentioned last night’s Bouchard Père...
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See also the first half of my overview of the 2004 bordeaux vintage and then the second. Here's a summary...
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Here are my notes, virtually as written at the time, taken during Michel Rolland’s recent presentation of 13 of his...
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As you can see from these tasting notes, and from my beginner's guide to the wines of Toro, some excellent...
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This range of 2004 sweet wines was extremely varied, much more varied than in the ‘fat’ year of 2003 or...
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The relatively cloudy summer and late ripening season of 2004 suited Bordeaux’s dry white wines, the best of which are...
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As usual, most of these 168 wines were tasted blind, the exceptions being Chx Ausone, Cheval Blanc, Lafleur, Eglise Clinet...
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