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Dinner with Nicolas Potel

Nicolas Potel is one of our favourite Burgundy producers. He has both an impeccable pedigree and impressive experience. He has recently moved to a new

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More news on the 2009 vintage

Our upbeat report on the 2009 vintage in Burgundy and Bordeaux a couple of weeks ago, was reiterated by Jancis Robinson in Saturday’s Financial Times.

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New Masters of Wine

I do not know of a club that is harder to get into than the Institute of Masters of Wine (except perhaps Whites if you are female). For once

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Mid-morning Ruinart

Winston Churchill’s Champagne habit is well known – at 11am he enjoyed his first drink of the day, an Imperial Pint of Pol Roger’s Winston Churchill. That’s two thirds

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Clos St Denis Laurent Ponsot 1945 – I don't think so

Back in November when we lunched with Laurent Ponsot he was, unsurprisingly, very exercised about a collection of fake Ponsot bottles entered for auction

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