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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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Yesterday, on the occasion of his state visit to Berlin, Barack Obama was presented with a gift of 2011 Piesporter...
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Andrew Licudi (pictured at home near Jerez) is a recent WSET graduate. He sold his specialist Spanish wine business in...
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We asked Ferran Centelles, our new Spanish specialist, to begin by surveying the state of wine in Spain today. Twenty...
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Yohan Castaing writes: ' Serve them good wine, they will make good laws', said Michel de Montaigne, one of the...
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Wine professionals in London have a choice of two wine fairs to visit today: the first day of the London...
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See this guide to our extensive coverage of Bordeaux 2012. There is one good thing about the Bordeaux 2012 campaign...
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Just before the annual Tuscan en primeur tastings (on which I will report in detail later this week) last February...
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A few years ago London's fine-wine traders and merchants en masse opened up subsidiaries in Hong Kong. As you can...
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While Europe freezes, Melbourne is almost molten with heat, towards the end of yet another record-breakingly hot summer in Australia...
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I've never met Mrs Antonio Galloni but she must be very patient and supportive. There she is, expecting her first...
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I bumped into Andrew Caillard MW and a film crew several times in 2011. They were pretty obviously present at...
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When I had notification yesterday of a special parcel of fine German wines at Majestic, I so much wanted to...
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I will return to more vignettes from Burgundy next week, but in the meantime here are just a few vignettes...
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On the day that Louis Jadot is presenting its 2011s in London, without their famous wnemaker, Purple Pager and Burgundy...
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Last month I took part in the Concorso Enologico Internazionale, or International Wine Competition in Verona, set up and run...
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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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