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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 buzz I hear around town isn’t only about the incredibly early, frost-shrunk 2008 grape crop. In a move that...
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The second annual conference of the American Association of Wine Economists sounds like either a bore or scam depending on...
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Those familiar with the wines of Sonoma’s Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards & Winery, and the magnificent Healdsburg estate itself, should...
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Wine writer Monty Waldin, quite coincidentally producer of this week’s wine of the week , has been visiting the troubled...
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Simon Baile, son of Nick Baile MW who once ran Oddbins, is the new owner of the troubled chain of...
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My mother always told that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. This is an article...
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On the day after the Co-op announced that it was taking...
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Continuing her travels round the world of wine as part of her OIV MSc course, Victoria Daskal reaches China, as...
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The Syndicat of the Vin de Pays d’Oc has registered the name Noctambulles for its sparkling wines. The alternative name...
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London wine merchants Roberson have had to postpone the date of their planned tasting of wines rated very differently by...
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Our loafing correspondent Lindsay Hamilton, ex co-owner of Farr Vintners, has already treated us to an account of one of...
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Although some of the Bordelais returnees from it have managed to find the strength to release their 2007s, Hong Kong’s...
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We are currently designing the new, improved, go-faster forum. It will be a huge advance on the one we use...
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The revolving door has had quite a workout lately at West Coast wineries, with Joseph Phelps Vineyards stalwarts Tom Shelton...
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I am sent the following: New research by Chilean wine producer Montes has revealed a world scientific first – music...
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See Dr Richard Smart's reactions to this report here. My morning paper devotes the top half of its page 11...
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