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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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Forgive my obsession with the subject of wine writers. It is perhaps at least understandable since I am one. I...
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A few very brief observations before dashing off to taste. Have to be at Mouton by nine. You might like...
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Last week I went to a dinner given by Neville Abraham, founder of the distinctive 1980s wine merchant Les Amis...
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Do we care that the EU is reported to be set to allow pink wine to be made by simply...
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San Francisco barrel broker Mel Knox wrote this in 2001 and, in the noble spirit of recycling, has sent it...
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Leanne De Bortoli sends the following report from the heart of post-bushfires Yarra Valley. We have been and are still...
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You may (or if Burgundian may not) be amused by this picture of the label Australo-German Timo Mayer has chosen...
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Some Californian wine lovers are up in arms about a proposed increase in duty on wine in the state. Governor...
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One of the great difficulties of covering the current spate of burgundy 2007 tastings in London (which, complementing my and...
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It’s amazing what lengths one particular wine producer has apparently gone to in order to be able once more to...
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Update 30 Jun 2011: more insights in an animated discussion on the forum about why Chinese buy Lafite. You may...
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Warren Winiarski’s wait is over. The Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars founder has been elected to the 2009 Vintners Hall of...
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As an end-of-week folderol, allow me to share a couple of particularly successful food and wine matchings I’ve encountered recently...
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State-of-mind is a complex affair. Unfortunately, my formal knowledge of psychology goes no further than that somewhat bland brushstroke of...
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Is any other fellow British wine lover spluttering over their paper this morning? My Guardian states twice, in its report...
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I’m now back home after a week’s immersion in 2007s in Burgundy and then Châteauneuf-du-Pape with hundreds of tasting notes...
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