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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 day before He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never refuse anything. Except it wasn’t...
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There has so far been only one thing wrong with the Eighth International Cool Climate Symposium here in Tasmania: the...
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It is often said that wine takes itself too seriously. That is indeed a grave shortcoming. However, when wine doesn't...
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We have been enjoying the plethora of Burgundy 2010 tastings in London this week, even if our awareness of our...
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This is the week that the UK fine wine trade goes mad for burgundy, or more particularly for showing samples...
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For years now the London Wine Trade Diary sees one of its busiest weeks in the second week of January...
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Known in the home country as Spätburgunder, German Pinot Noir has come a long way since the days of the...
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What a funny day yesterday was. I share a handful of the more unlikely scenes. 9.30 am Beaune autoroute service...
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Internet wine forums are on fire [and so, belatedly, is ours]. Well, they've been on fire for a few days...
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For two ideological adversaries, they seemed to agree on an awful lot. When they didn't, the essence of their conflict...
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The blood is slowly trickling back into my burgundy stream as I write, early the morning after attending the famous...
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Well, after 36 years writing about wine, almost to the day (although the exact anniversary is Thursday), I have finally...
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Australian wine has entered its third era. First came the Fortified Age, from the mid 19th century to the mid...
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I got back from Hong Kong early yesterday morning and, thanks to a good night's sleep and an afternoon siesta...
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Purple pagers Al Buchanan of Chicago (left) and Maureen Downey of San Francisco met at a wonderful 1961 dinner I...
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The Jimmy Watson Wine Bar still stands in Lygon Street, Melbourne. It was on this site that Jimmy Watson, before...
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