Back in 2018, I wrote about my interest in a grape variety called Nerello Mascalese, which is principally grown in Sicily on the slopes of Mount Etna. I suggested at the time that you would most likely hear more about it in the coming years as several high profile wine producers across Italy, including Angelo Gaja, had recognised the quality, an...
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I doubt you have ever heard of a Spanish grape variety called Bobal (pronounced bow-bal), but I think you might start to hear more about it in time. While it is widely grown in Spain, it is in the Western Mediterranean,
maybe 50 to 70 km inland from Valencia, that it finds its true home. There are three...
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Now that we are offering the 2012 vintage of Guy Charlemagne's Le Mesnillésime, I am reminded of the words I used when we released the 2008 vintage...I commented as follows:
Without doubt the 2004 Guy Charlemagne, Le Mesnillésime Grand Cru was one of the most popular offers we made in the last two years. This is ...
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With a number of our mainstay estates, we saw something that fascinated us at the outset, a trigger that inclined us to get involved. That trigger could have been the quality, the style, something unique or even an understanding on a winemaking level that convinced us that this particular estate was one to follow. While the wines were impressive...
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If you are going to buy white Burgundy with bottle age, you want to be assured of the condition of the wines. When we had the chance to plunder the reserves of one of our favourite white Burgundy estates, we couldn’t believe our luck. You may recall that Domaine Darviot-Perrin has leased out their vineyards for the next couple of vintages ...
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Someone once told me that I would be impressed by the wines of Carema quite a while back…I didn’t get around to following it up until recently. He was certainly right, I tasted the 2016 Carema Riserva from Produttori di Carema the other evening and I was immediately struck by the Burgundian character of the wine. It was very much Ba...
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