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Three New Team Members at Pontet Canet

Ch Pontet Canet has been a rising star since 1994 under the management of Alfred Tesseron. He began practicing Draconian-like measures to extract the most potential from his top Pauillac property. This year he has now gone one step further...

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What's in the Glass??

Dinner at Brasserie de Noailles took on another dimension with Eugene, one of our highly charismatic Bordeaux negociant, when he decanted his strawberries and cream into his delicious glass of claret. It was an interesting combination! The following day we...

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Sense and Sensibility

How important are your senses to you?! Have you gone as far as Ilja Gort, the Dutch owner of Chateau de la Garde in Bordeaux, France, who insured his nose earlier this week for a staggering £3.9 million to cover...

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Expansion of the Champagne Region

Dozens of new producers have been awarded the right to produce champagne under the first substantial expansion of the tightly controlled wine region since 1927. Thirty eight communes (village districts) were named after decades of lobbying and feuding among councils...

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Bordeaux 2005’s starting to arrive on UK soil

James Suckling at Wine Spectator has followed the 2005’s with great enthusiasm whilst also being aware of the rapidly increasing prices.  

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