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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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What a shame it is that the global balance of mongering is so askew. Wail as we might, mongering of...
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Olivier, the charming son of Henri, Krug was in London last Thursday to launch the second-ever vintage, 1996, of Krug’s...
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Thierry Manoncourt of Ch Figeac in St-Émilion will be given the Légion d'Honneur at the château tomorrow. He will be...
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I am told that there is another major incident in the American fine wine market involving a very considerable consignment...
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Before the recent AGM of the Royal Household Wine Committee at Buckingham Palace, the penultimate before my two three-year terms...
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I know I am extremely lucky to have a job that involves tasting great food and wine and travelling to...
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Many worrying months after the departure of the previous CEO Sam Tolley, the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation at last...
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19 Nov – See more details about the composition of Armand de Brignac cuves kindly supplied by Tom Stevenson after...
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I thought you might be interested to read this in conjunction with Richard's tasting notes on Laithwaites current wines, many...
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The last couple of days have seen a flurry of announcements in France and California in which the big get...
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Maine, the state in which ex-president/ex-drinker George W Bush's family has a summer home, has a new embarrassment – a...
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The Frenchman who encouraged me to brush my teeth immediately after tasting his wines, as described yesterday in The French...
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I had a particularly novel experience yesterday. I spent much of the morning in a white, modern, air conditioned tasting...
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Who'd want to work for Constellation? Perhaps it's inevitable that the world's biggest wine company is also proving to be...
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‘It would be endless to mention how many good judges of wine were deceived by my wine, and thought it...
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22 Jul update – By the time I flew out of Okanagan yesterday late afternoon, all the fires seemed to...
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