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Half a Century of Saint Estephe - Chateau Montrose

When I arrived in France in 1991, visitors to my Paris apartment joked that the furniture was mainly made up of wooden wine cases. They...

Meursault Desiree Comtes Lafon - a Wine reborn

It was about 25 years ago that I finally began to appreciate the beauty of Burgundian chardonnay, and it started in Meursault. At the...

Cool California, 1976 and all that...

1976. I was a school kid in England, and I can still remember the cricket pitch going from lush green to a faded fatigue to frazzled...

Hidden Gems a Stone's Throw from Lake Como

It is definitely the season to be fed up. The days are short, dark, cold and miserable; the politics is a mess of strutting egos; the...

Moulin-a-Vent - the Don Quixote of Burgundy

What was it, the third Thursday of November? Some stupid day like that. I’d get off the commuter train in the morning in London and...

Argentina - Up, Up and Away!

When I first flew down to Buenos Aires, on business, in the late 90’s it was a very different world. The peso was still pegged to the US$...

Barolo, La Morra and Art

It’s not often that we talk about art in the wine world unless it be the art of the winemaker, or the various domaines that hire an...

Felsina - Religious Reverence in Chianti

Castelnuovo Beradegna. It sits perched on top of a hill, the last outpost of Chianti on the southern border looking towards Siena and the...

Domaine Leroy 2004 Bourgogne Rouge - truly unique

You can forget the hyberbole, this is a literal use of words. This wine really is unique. It only happened once and will not be repeated....

Nittardi, Michelangelo and Papal Nectar

It’s pouring with rain, a howling gale, branches down everywhere, bins blown over and anyway if you go out you get arrested, fined or...

Chateau de Meursault/Marsannay 2019. A Phoenix rises?

The alarm seemed painfully loud, but by the time I had dragged myself out to the car, in the pitch dark wetness of a December morning, I...

Hermitage Blanc Chave 2000 & The Silver Tower

Wines so often come with a story and a history. In 2016 we were staying in Ireland with my wife’s family and on the way back we stopped...

Chablis - home of a billion oyster shells

Chablis. I think it was in the early 1980s as an indigent student travelling back from friends in Provence that I first set foot in the...

Cotat Sancerre les Monts Damnes 2010

Having started this blog in Sancerre with the Dr No of Chavignol (Sean Connery having just passed on, and Cotat's door supposedly always...

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