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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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Oceanic wine
Chris Howard asks, if there’s such a thing as volcanic wine, can there be oceanic wine? Above, seals on the beach where the Pacific meets the Russian River – not...
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See also Bordeaux 2013 – Parker delays primeurs verdict.
Négociants in Bordeaux are facing a worrying Christmas and 2014, according...
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On Wednesday last week the German Wine Institute and the German Embassy hosted a Fellowship of Riesling evening at Vintners'...
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See my tasting notes on all these wines in Four decades of California Cabs.I'm sure all of us wine lovers...
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See our autumn collection of Bordeaux tasting notes. Yohan Castaing writes:The period before the en primeur campaign is always a...
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Australian wine luminary and wine producer (ex Petaluma, now Tapanappa) Brian Croser issues a cri de coeur about the state...
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Written by Nick Bartman.
At any one time, legitimately manufactured original goods sit in warehouses or float around the world...
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The Magnificent Seven may be the name of the 1960 western directed by John Sturges, but in the following article...
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Hugh Johnson and I were in New York last week to ensure that the new 7th edition of The World...
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Last June during a visit to Puglia I was reminded again of how privileged we wine writers are. I was...
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Talking of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, read what veteran British wine marketeer Mike Paul has to say about the current...
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See also this guide to our organic and biodynamic viticulture stock take last week. Guillaume Bodin is a young French...
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23 Jul - Better news for Castel, and others, is that its subsidiary Barrières Frères, jointly owned with Suntory of...
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A lot has already been said and written about non-sulphured wines (put 'natural wine' in our search box, for instance)...
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Richard writes about his new role talent spotting among younger wine writers: Introducing Harry Haddon, a South African wine blogger...
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See also Muscadet (re)visited, part 1 – crus de foudre One of wine's most celebrated qualities is as a liquid...
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See also part two – a manifesto for Muscadet and part three – some top examples Shortly after I wrote...
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