Perhaps I keep a bit too quiet about my interest in Riesling - I enjoy examples from the Clare Valley in Australia to Wachau Rieslings in Austria to the great Rieslings of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Rheingau and Nahe in Germany. I am also a fan of Riesling from Alsace in north-eastern France, though I sometimes find issue with the weight of the wines...
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A very short and simple note; 2019 Château La Clotte has released today and we can offer at £300 per 6 bottle case in bond. We have followed this Château over the last few vintages and been very impressed. We haven’t tasted the recent release, but I feel confident in offering this vintage, nonetheless. This is a property ...
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I thought this might offer a welcome divergence from all this talk of Bordeaux En Primeur, prices and percentages…In the late 1990s, I remember some very poor Bordeaux at under £20 per bottle...traditional merchants used to have stacks of ordinary Bordeaux that failed to deliver. Some were lean and lacking intensity, short of fruit,...
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Cos d’Estournel released this morning at a favourable price of £675 per 6 bottle case in bond. This compares well with the release prices of the following recent vintages (source : Liv-ex.com)
2018 - £888/6 in bond
2017 - £654/6 in bond
2016 - £700/6 in bond
2015 - £636/6 in bond<...
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2018 M3 Chardonnay, Shaw + Smith - 'never been a more exciting time for Adelaide Hills Chardonnay' Getting the opportunity to taste new releases is something we used to take for granted – there are more trade events each year than you might believe, that afford us a chance to taste widely in London without the necessity to travel to each r...
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I think I was born with a healthy dose of cynicism somehow; I like to form my own opinions, hence the fact that we taste the wines we offer, decide to purchase based on our assessment, and write our own notes. Sometimes we concur with critics, and sometimes we don’t. Either way, we’ll give our thoughts alongside.
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