You may recall that Chablis was hit by a hailstorm just before harvest on the 1st September 2015. Despite the dramatization of this event, losses were kept to a minimum and the quality is surprisingly good at the leading domaines...there is just less wine. Aside from the hail, which only affected specific sites within the appellation, the summer...
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Accessing high quality white Burgundy for ready drinking at a favourable price is not the easy task that it once was. However, one area that continues to offer value is the Mâconnais and, in particular, the appellation of Pouilly-Fuissé to the west of the region. We have been fortunate to access a parcel of magnums of 2015 Pouilly-F...
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A couple of months back I tasted a wine blind with two friends, and rather than disclose my attempts at identification in full here, let’s just say that in terms of origin I was 11,702 kilometres out. According to Google, this is the approximate distance between Chile and Burgundy… The wine in question was the second vintage of a li...
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A couple of months back I tasted a wine blind with two friends, and rather than disclose my attempts at identification in full here, let’s just say that in terms of origin I was 11,702 kilometres out. According to Google, this is the approximate distance between Chile and Burgundy… The wine in question was the second vintage of a li...
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Over the last few years, we have made many comments about the value to be found in Barolo. Simply put, the prices of various wines haven’t yet caught up with the quality on show – we can’t say it any clearer than that. The 2013 Barolo ‘Baudana’, Luigi Baudana that we offer here at £255 per 6 bottle case in bon...
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Oddly, the wines of the Rhône valley do not find it as easy to access the limelight as they did a few years ago. We say oddly because there has been a very good run of vintages and frankly, in comparison to other lauded French regions, prices are still very fair if you know where to look. The Northern Rhône, in particular, can provid...
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