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Press Reviews: April
Our latest press reviews: The Times, cluboenologique.com, The Sunday Times, Vineyardmagazine.co.uk and The Telegraph. Benefit from our case price discount in red by buying any 12 bottles from this selection – in a mixed case of your design or simply by the dozen. The best rosés to buy now, The Times, Jane MacQuitty,29/04/2022: 2021 ROSÉ […]
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2022 Spring Tasting | Highlights
‘Our first proper tasting for ages, and I was unable to attend having contracted Covid, (the reason for the long hiatus since our well-attended Italian tasting in March 2020). This was particularly galling after I had helped organise the attendance of some of the winemakers, notably producers of three new grower Champagnes who I had […]
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Press Reviews: March
Our latest press reviews: Matthewjukes.com and The Times. Benefit from our case price discount in red by buying any 12 bottles from this selection – in a mixed case of your design or simply by the dozen. Why I have a soft spot for Portuguese wine, The Times, Jane MacQuitty, 18/03/2022: 2018 TOURIGA NACIONAL […]
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Press Reviews: February
Our latest press reviews: The Telegraph, The Times & Club Oenologique. Benefit from our case price discount in red by buying any 12 bottles from this selection – in a mixed case of your design or simply by the dozen. A clean slate: Top Priorat wines under the region’s new classification, Club Oenologique, Adam Lechmere, […]
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NSPCC City Fine Wine Challenge 2022
The 2022 City Fine Wine Challenge in aid of NSPCC Childline was held on the 3rd March, and we were delighted to be back in One Great George Street after the virtual event last year. Back in the swing and despite some nervousness and some absences with Covid still circulating (sadly including ex-chairman of the […]
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2017 Brunello di Montalcino | Vintage overview
Have you ever found, upon opening a bottle of Brunello, that you’ve tasted it and thought ‘I like this, but it’s just a little too austere for me – where is the pure pleasure?’. If that’s crossed your mind and stopped you from getting really excited about the wines, then the 2017 releases are for […]
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Press Reviews: January
Our latest press reviews: The Telegraph, MatthewJukes.com & You Magazine. Benefit from our case price discount in red by buying any 12 bottles from this selection – in a mixed case of your design or simply by the dozen. Tom Parker Bowles & Olly Smith: Old-school Thai at Jin-Da Thai and fizz to end dry […]
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2020 Burgundy | Part 1 – Chablis
Chablis – arriving in Fleys on the road from Tonnerre Towards the end of October I planned to set off from Kent to start a trip to Chablis and Champagne, and was told, when I began to make appointments for the Monday, that the Sunday was by chance the rather local event, the ‘Fête des […]
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2020 Burgundy | Part 2 – Beaune to Mâcon
Our visits to Burgundy in the Autumn each year are planned to coincide with the moment the vignerons have finally ‘got away’ all the wines from the recent harvest, and they’ve had a moment to recover from the strains and stresses of vintage, an all-consuming and monumentally physical time. The trick is to try and […]
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2020 Burgundy | Part 3 – Côte de Nuits & Côte de Beaune
You know what I can’t stand. When you try and look up something very simple like ‘how to change a light bulb’ and a website insists on running you through the history of the lightbulb, every other lightbulb on the market and what might replace the lightbulb in the future before just telling you what […]
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2020 Burgundy | Part 4 – Côte de Nuits (cont.)
Day 3 – Wednesday, 10th of November The weather turned ugly. Or at least, had a poor night’s sleep and didn’t put on any makeup. The piercing blue sky turned the colour of iron and the low temperature (which hovered somewhere between freezing and 4 degrees) became very evident without the warmth of the sun. […]
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2020 Burgundy En Primeur: First impressions
Our annual visit to Burgundy this year was a tale of two halves, and I’m not just talking red & white. After the difficulty of the 2019 tasting run, where Charles and I had to tackle every producer over a 10-day stretch (to avoid self-isolating twice on return), we decided this year to split up […]
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Press Reviews: December
Our latest press reviews: The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, Decanter. Benefit from our case price discount in red by buying any 12 bottles from this selection – in a mixed case of your design or simply by the dozen. This £13.99 champagne is a Christmas bestseller – so what is its secret?, The […]
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Press Reviews: November
Our latest press reviews: The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph & The Scotsman. Benefit from our case price discount in red by buying any 12 bottles from this selection – in a mixed case of your design or simply by the dozen. The best red wines to buy for Christmas 2021, The Telegraph, […]
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2021 Burgundy harvest reports | Côte de Beaune
Domaine Rémi Jobard – Meursault Remi Jobard told us:- ‘It was the shortest harvest ever – even my father had never seen anything like it. 1/3 of the normal harvest, and short in red as well as white. I picked late – starting as most people finished. It seemed that they wanted to make reasons […]
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2021 Burgundy harvest reports | Côte de Nuits
An interesting report given that there seems to be a ‘blanket’ view that 2021 is a disaster in France. In Burgundy the quantity of white is certainly disastrously low, but there will as usual be some nicer surprises. Domaine Stéphane Magnien, Morey Saint Denis Stéphane reports from Morey Saint Denis ‘As for the harvest, this […]