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After three weeks’ tasting the 2017 vintage in Burgundy I have come back excited and energised. This time last year many of our growers were strangely subdued. While they were thrilled to have some volume after six consecutively small harvests,...
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Expectations can be a dangerous thing, but sometimes, happily, they are exceeded. This was most certainly the case at last week’s 14th Wine Dinner at The Savoy hosted by Johnny and Laura Goedhuis and the Wentworth-Stanley family in aid of...
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The “Two Years On” tasting of Bordeaux, commonly known as the Southwold Tasting, owes its origins to the journalist Clive Coates MW and the former chairman of Adnams Brewery, Simon Loftus. Simon hosted the first event at his home in...
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We were delighted to act as hosts again for Sarah Marsh MW’s second “Time to Mature Tasting” at our offices on Bermondsey Street last week. In June last year Sarah had arranged a wonderful selection of mature white Burgundies to...
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Mother Nature can be both extraordinarily cruel and unexpectedly kind, generous and thoughtful.