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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 temperature, we were told, was set at precisely 20 ºC, but it felt peculiarly cooler than that as our...
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Now that its owner has announced that Jean-Guillaume Prats, the public face of Château Cos d'Estournel, the leading St-Estèphe property...
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I had never paid much attention to wine competitions. When wines win medals and prizes, who are they competing against...
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Supermarket chain Booths, who have 28 branches across the north of England, are eschewing the much-hyped trend for Moscato in...
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The final morning of Cape Wine 2012 has dawned, and I am looking forward to another full day of conference-hall...
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There is uproar in Burgundy over the fact that the Château de Gevrey-Chambertin is now in Chinese hands, having been...
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Had a lovely Sunday lunch yesterday. Very simple. Just Nick and I in our garden in the Languedoc – one...
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Even later that day: Feel free to comment below. Paillard presumably won't since, according to a standard email message, the...
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Just before I left London for the Languedoc earlier this month, I happened to see quite a few people in...
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The cork industry is thrilled to be able to report that 'leading Australian winery' Rusden ' has announced it is...
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In Britain there's a wine company called Bibendum Wine. They have a perfectly respectable range and do lots of things...
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Some years ago the admired New Zealand producer Vidal, sister company to Villa Maria in George Fistonich’s empire, the biggest...
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John Atkinson MW has a particular interest in terroir and soil composition, as you can read in his Terroir and...
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On my recent visit to Tasca d'Almerita's estate in Sicily, I was keen to discuss the brand-new DOC Sicilia. As...
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Exactly a week ago I was asked to give a talk at the London International Wine Fair Conference about Global...
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What a busy day yesterday! First I had to give a talk on Global Trends in Wine at Excel as...
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