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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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Michael Broadbent MW celebrated his 85th birthday yesterday with a candlelit dinner for 40 at his club Brooks’s overlooking rival...
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Anthony Maxwell of Liv-ex contacted me this morning to draw my attention to the most recent addition to the blog...
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I last saw the director of Ch Latour Frédéric Engerer at a wedding in Hong Kong in early March. He...
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Those interested in the market for fine bordeaux should know that Ch Latour made public yesterday their intention of withdrawing...
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In response to a thread in our Members' forum started by Purple Pager Gianpaolo Paglia lamenting the apparent lack of...
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This article could just as well be entitled 'How to enlarge your DOCG'.
As Jancis reported here 'Moscatomania' seems to...
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In which our Spanish specialist wins a prize and has his first meal at Heston Blumenthal's Dinner, eventually. When we...
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Dhruv Sawhney of Delhi is perhaps India's most respected wine collector and connoisseur. He was captain of his Cambridge college...
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My taste buds thoroughly enjoyed themselves yesterday afternoon and evening, and my eyes were also stimulated by the beautiful spring...
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One French region I think has enormous potential and I have been following closely for at least the last 10...
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Why on earth are there two fairs promoting natural wine taking place at the same time in London this May...
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Nick and I landed at Heathrow at at 5.30 this morning and I am just wading through the post and...
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Gavin Monery is a winemaker with 10 years' experience, including stints at JL Chave in Hermitage and Cullen and Moss...
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