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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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Andy Howard MW continues his review of the UK retail scene with a look at the wines offered by the...
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During my trip to Barolo to taste the forthcoming and highly anticipated 2013 vintage last week, rumours of an imminent...
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Jan-Erik Paulson of Rare-Wine.com in Waldkirchen, southern Germany, has been dealing in rare wine, particularly mature bordeaux, for over 30...
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Andy Howard MW continues his series on UK retailers, turning his attention to the the unconventional business mix of Majestic...
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Andrew Howard MW continues his audits of major UK retailers' wine ranges. It has been a topsy-turvy ride for Marks...
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Andy Howard MW assesses the wines of the two most prominent 'discounters' among the UK supermarkets and their increasing share...
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Neophyte vigneron Chris Boiling continues to make bad decisions – this time he managed to miss his own 2016 harvest...
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See also Castello di Ama – an exclusive vertical and today's review of Liberty Wines' Tuscans.
This year the wine...
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It’s been a strange few weeks for neophyte Slovenian vigneron Chris Boiling. And things just seem to be getting stranger...
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See also today's Rest of Italy assemblage in which there are some Sicilian tasting notes, and Walter's collection of tasting...
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In the last of his articles on major UK retailers, Andy Howard MW reports on what's new at Britain's most...
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Chris Boiling, who bought a small vineyard in Slovenia, has been distracting himself from medical matters by trying to think...
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Retail specialist Andrew Howard MW continues his series of assessments of Britain’s biggest supermarkets, following on from his looks at...
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Retail specialist Andrew Howard MW turns his attention to another major UK retailer. See also his assessments of M and...
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Andrew Howard MW adds this to his recent surveys of the wine ranges of Marks and Spencer and The Co-op...
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This is the second of retail specialist Andrew Howard MW's reports on major UK retailer's current wine ranges. See also...
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