“Establishing new, direct relationships is possibly the most enjoyable and rewarding aspect of what we do at Atlas; that feeling is intensified when the estate in question is a Burgundian domaine that we have been tracking for several vintages. It suffices to say that we are very pleased to be adding the wines of Domaine Latour-Giraud to o...
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Château Grand Puy Lacoste was just released onto the market this morning.
I haven’t tasted the wine this vintage, but I think the price is remarkably fair – indeed the Borie family at Grand Puy Lacoste have never become carried away with ambitious release pricing, so one could easily argue that there was no n...
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Here is one of the first en primeur releases to make me sit up, take note and get genuinely excited; Château Figeac, which has been riding high in recent vintages, has released this morning at £756 per 6 bottle case in bond.
I am pleased to see Figeac release at a favourable price; its release price is down 31% on ...
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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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