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Bordeaux 2025 – a pivotal en primeur campaign?
Nick Martin reflects as another en primeur campaign winds up. Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste (pictured above) bundled a visit to the property with the en primeur purchase of their ‘variation case’ this...
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The cross-Channel special relationship
A look at Anglo-French love through the lens of wine. Plus a guide to the UK’s fine-wine traders. A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times...
Jancis Robinson
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc writes:A complicated year, a complicated harvest. After a fraught growing season in 2013 (see my...
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Philippe Raoux, the owner of Château d'Arsac in Margaux, and his son Pierre Raoux, currently based in Australia, have created...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc writes:As the Bordeaux harvest begins, here is a detailed report on the weather so far...
Alder on America
When it was announced in late July that François Pinault's Artemis Group, owner of Ch Latour, was purchasing Napa Valley's...
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Yasia Williams, who designed the sumptuous forthcoming seventh edition of The World Atlas of Wine to be published next month...
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Our corner of the Languedoc still produces a great deal of wine, even now that the EU as succeeded in...
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Gosh (some of) these wines are expensive! Good to see that our old friend Capbern-Gasqueton 2009 is holding up well...
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Gavin Quinney of Ch Bauduc writes: There hasn't been a poor vintage in Bordeaux for twenty years but the cold...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
Last week, as the 2012 primeurs...
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Château Margaux's long-awaited third wine will be released this September. The debut vintage of Margaux du Château Margaux, 2009, will...
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It's an ill wind that blows no one any good. Stéphanie de Boüard at least may be rather grateful for...
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21 Mar – Stéphanie de Boüard responds: I just wanted to point out the fact that the two information contained...
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Yohan Castaing writes: The French businessman, Jacky Lorenzetti, backer of the Parisian rugby team Racing Metro inter alia, has bought...
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I bumped into Andrew Caillard MW and a film crew several times in 2011. They were pretty obviously present at...
Book reviews
As in previous years, Irish broadcaster and writer Paul O'Doherty reviews the year's wine books. All his views are his...
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I suspect I was not the only Bordeaux watcher to be quite surprised by the appointment less than two years...
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