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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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Last night, along with fellow wine writers Neal Martin and James Suckling (proud father of Isabel the Choirgirl, number three...
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My tastings in Burgundy at the end of October were punctuated by the most delicious and unBurgundian tasting, a very...
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Jean-Marc Quarin is a specialist, proudly independent writer on the wines of Bordeaux and sends out regular emails on the...
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A weekend of tasting, visits and dinners at top Bordeaux addresses has been organised by the Union des Grands Crus...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my tasting notes below. On...
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Stéphanie de Boüard, daughter of Château Angélus's owner and winemaking consultant Hubert de Boüard, organised a Bordeaux wine tasting and...
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The Cru Bourgeois classification, sullied by its annulment by the French government in 2007, has been relaunched with an overhauled...
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Christophe Coupez of the Chambre d'Agriculture's official oenology bureau in Pauillac has sent us this update on his earlier report...
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As autumn sets in all across Europe, so the wine trade returns from its summer sojourn and prepares for the...
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From €8.03, 14.59 Swiss francs and $21.99 7 Sep – and 'PeteonTweet' tells me that it's available at Carrefour as...
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Mention Ch Larose-Trintaudon to one of Bordeaux's 'aristocracy of the cork' and they look decidedly supercilious. For years this cru...
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Every time we drive into the local town, we pass one of the biggest bulk wine suppliers of the region...
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I wonder how cheap own-label sherry would have become if the sherry producers hadn't naughtily ganged up and decided to...
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The 2009 primeur campaign is far from over in mainland China. We will be reporting at greater length on the...
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I have long thought that vineyards and cellars are extremely vulnerable to criminal intent. Anyone with a grudge against an...
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In 1989 first growths, more or less, Jancis tasted a clutch of top 1989s as they were in 2002. When...
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