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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The great issue with Bordeaux is basing qualitative judgements on young barrel samples. To put this into context, most professionals taste Burgundy more than twelve months after harvest, but for Bordeaux it isn’t far off six months. Simon's offer, below, on the 2015 Château Prieuré-Lichine, a Bordeaux vintage which we have bee...
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We have been great fans of the Champagnes of De Sousa for some time now, ever since Simon and Richard first encountered a bottle of Caudalies in an outstanding Japanese restaurant in the Burgundian town of Beaune. Simon was always intrigued by a comment from respected Champagne critic, Peter Liem of champagneguide.net, who once wrote ‘It&r...
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