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Bordeaux En Primeur 2017| Day 2 | Margaux, St Julien & Pauillac

An inauspicious start for the team joining those already on the ground; delayed at a foggy Luton followed by a 5am fire alarm at our hotel after the night manager burnt a batch of croissants! Bleary eyed but in high...

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Bordeaux En Primeur 2017| Day 1 | St Estèphe & Pauillac

Our first day of Bordeaux En Primeur 2017 and we brought the rain with us! Our wet morning began driving to the most Northern part of the Left Bank, St Estèphe, to cover the top estates before travelling south just...

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BASBN 2018 (BRING A SPECIAL BOTTLE NIGHT)

I was fortunate to be travelling in Hong Kong for the 11th Bring A Special Bottle dinner (now that I am based in the UK) and therefore very happy to attend what remains one of the great institutions on the...

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The Wine Dinner at The Savoy 2018: Bordeaux 2005s Part 2

Last week’s 2005 extravaganza was quite a contrast to my previous experience of The Wine Dinner, where we had poured the mature 1990s in 2016.

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The Wine Dinner at The Savoy 2018: Bordeaux 2005s Part 1

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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