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Penfolds French-ish Launches, the New Grange, the Fabled Bin 60A and More
When Penfolds launches its 2022 collection tomorrow, Thursday 4 August, it will include two French, or French-ish, still wines for the...
Aug 3, 2022


Prime Time for Pink: Summer 2022 Rosé Round-up Part 1
Update, August 12 I've just added two more wines to this, so it's now 12 appetite-whetting rosés. The additions, Ramón Bilbao Rosado and...
Jul 19, 2022


Celebrating English Wines
My picks for the second weekend of English Wine Week celebrations. Not that they're only for English Wine Week. English wines are for...
Jun 24, 2022


Moët's Luxury Cuvée MCIII and the Enigmatic Non-Appearance of its Successor
The text of this article was first published in The World of Fine Wine issue 68 (June 2020) LATEST, April 12, 2022: I asked Moët to give...
May 11, 2022


Ornellaia Ups the Cabernet Sauvignon in its Newly Released 2019, 'Il Vigore'
Each year the estate director of Ornellaia in Bolgheri chooses a single word to describe the character of the wine and reveals it at the...
Feb 14, 2022


You Have to Go Back to 1865 at Domaine de la Romanée Conti to Meet a Vintage Like 2019...
Perrine Fenal and Aubert de Villaine, co-directors of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, at Corney & Barrow's offices in London. The photo of...
Feb 8, 2022


The Essence of Cristal Through the Prism of the 2014 Vintage
"If I don't make mistakes, I never learn." Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon's words are hardly original but still they took me by surprise. I...
Feb 2, 2022


New Year, New Wines, New approach: the Blind Spot Australian range gets a makeover
Wines made by Mac Forbes with grapes paid for upfront by The Wine Society. The one-off exception is the Dolcetto, which was made with a...
Jan 28, 2022


The Festive Sweet, Sticky and Fortified Wine Guide 2021
As ever, my annual sweet and fortified wine guide is the place to rummage for many of the wine world's greatest bargains. More than that,...
Dec 21, 2021


The Festive White, Orange and Rosé Wine Guide 2021
Welcome to my annual roundup of white, orange and rosé wines for the festive season. Ranging freely through styles, regions and grape...
Dec 16, 2021


The Festive Champagne Guide 2021
It goes without saying that it's always a pleasure to publish my annual round-up of Champagnes to meet the varied needs of the festive...
Dec 9, 2021


The Festive Red Wine Guide 2021
Welcome to my annual roundup of red wines. Ranging freely across styles, regions and grape varieties, it's designed to cover all...
Dec 3, 2021


The Lowdown on the World's Most Mysterious Liqueur: Green Chartreuse
It has a centuries’ old history, a cult following and has given its name to a shade of green and so far no one has succeeded in...
Nov 17, 2021


Why the 2008 Rosé Marks A Mini Revolution at Champagne Charles Heidsieck
It's not the ten years on lees – the 2005 rosé had 11 years – or the 2mm smaller diameter bottle neck "to tighten the ageing" that chef...
Aug 25, 2021


Ten Pinots for International Pinot Noir Day
I hadn't planned to do a Pinot Noir post to coincide with International Pinot Noir Day today, but it's a good opportunity to spread the...
Aug 18, 2021


Prime Time for Pink: Summer 2021 Rosé Roundup Part 2
As in part one, there's a cross-section of styles, grape varieties, origins and prices here and I'm going from high to low again, so that...
Aug 11, 2021


Love Island: why Chanel bought Domaine de l'Ile on Porquerolles
Why would the luxury goods giant Chanel buy a wine estate in a remote part of the tiny (car-free) island of Porquerolles? The answer that...
Jul 15, 2021


Prime Time for Pink: Summer 2021 Rosé Roundup Part 1
Now that winemakers all around the world treat rosé with as much respect as red and white wines, there are so many good rosés in such a...
Jul 7, 2021


Acidity – Something to be Celebrated Not Feared: the launch of Luce 2018
Two things came together for Frescobaldi's Luce in 2018, a model vintage without any of the extremes of the previous year and the opening...
Jun 30, 2021


Picks for English Wine Week 2021
Chardonnay vines in The King's Vineyard, Rochester, Kent, recently planted on the site of the vineyard of the medieval priory. Simpsons...
Jun 23, 2021
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