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    Beaujolais: The Comeback Kid
    • Jan 9, 2017

    Beaujolais: The Comeback Kid

    The famous windmill that gave its name to Moulin-à-Vent, one of the ten crus of Beaujolais I was slightly wary of showing a Beaujolais to...
    The Festive Fortified Wine Guide
    • Dec 20, 2016

    The Festive Fortified Wine Guide

    Fortified wines are the perfect, relaxing wines to sip when life moves into the slow lane in the evenings and over the festive period....
    What to Drink with Goose? It's easier than you think
    • Dec 19, 2016

    What to Drink with Goose? It's easier than you think

    People overestimate the difficulty of matching wine to roast goose. I really don't think it's tricky. I do goose at Christmas every year...
    The Festive White Wine Guide 2016
    • Dec 16, 2016

    The Festive White Wine Guide 2016

    A round-up of white wines – dry first, then sweet – to cover the festive season, whether it's a quiet night in, basic crowd control, or...
    The Festive Red Wine Guide 2016
    • Dec 14, 2016

    The Festive Red Wine Guide 2016

    Updated 15 December to take in a Christmas offer price in the Co-op – £5 off its Chateauneuf-du-Pape A round-up of red wines of all...
    The Festive Champagne Guide 2016
    • Dec 9, 2016

    The Festive Champagne Guide 2016

    December 29, 2016: prices and stockists updated. I’m writing this a few days after The Wine Gang’s 2016 Ultimate Champagne Evening, so...
    Christmas Fizz: anything but Champagne
    • Dec 6, 2016

    Christmas Fizz: anything but Champagne

    The first of this year’s festive round-ups is sparkling wines – any kind of alcoholic fizz except Champagne (Champagne will follow)....
    A £12 Wine You Can Age For Two Decades
    • Nov 29, 2016

    A £12 Wine You Can Age For Two Decades

    Grapes for Amarone drying on traditional bamboo trays After visiting Valpolicella last month, I was going to write about the current...
    Give Muscadet Some Love: five wines to try
    • Nov 2, 2016

    Give Muscadet Some Love: five wines to try

    Post updated with more recommendations and more about the crus communaux on 11 November 2016 Muscadet has been having a tough time of it...
    Is co-fermentation the new black for Port?
    • Oct 29, 2016

    Is co-fermentation the new black for Port?

    Co-fermenting – fermenting different grape varieties together happened by default in the past It was a while since I’d been in the Douro...
    A Corker of an Afternoon: checking into the recorking clinic
    • Oct 16, 2016

    A Corker of an Afternoon: checking into the recorking clinic

    Caught in the act: me snapping the documentary cameraman from National Geographic photographing my three bottles of Grange just before we...
    The Next Big Thing...
    • Oct 7, 2016

    The Next Big Thing...

    This is the sort of piece I normally write at the close of the year, but I have more than enough material and deserving wines to mention...
    Penfolds Grange and Special Bins: a unique vertical tasting in Paris
    • Apr 19, 2016

    Penfolds Grange and Special Bins: a unique vertical tasting in Paris

    Hosted by the Australian Ambassador to France at "an intimate dinner", it was billed as "the first ever monumental vertical tasting of...
    Iconic, historic... it must be Penfolds Grange and a Rewards of Patience tasting
    • Apr 5, 2016

    Iconic, historic... it must be Penfolds Grange and a Rewards of Patience tasting

    Penfolds' fifth Rewards of Patience was a remarkable, unrepeatable tasting over four days in September 2003. It included the complete set...
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