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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...
Dec 14, 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...
Dec 9, 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)....
Dec 6, 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...
Nov 29, 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...
Nov 2, 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...
Oct 29, 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...
Oct 16, 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...
Oct 7, 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...
Apr 19, 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...
Apr 5, 2016
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