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Over the last few years wine consumption in the Randall house at Christmas has dwindled to a mere trickle. Last year’s paltry effort so traumatised me that I made a promise to up the quality in 2008
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I know that there will be no shortage of good wine this festive season as I have been put in charge of sorting out the Christmas drinks!
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This will be the first Christmas when it is just my mother and I, as my brother James, after 36 years, has finally flown the nest, leaving my Christmas drinking habits glaringly exposed under the full scrutiny of my teetotal...
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In the January edition of Decanter magazine Tom Maresca ponders the use of new French barriques in Barolo and Barbaresco. Traditionally the wines were aged in botti, large barrels of Slavonian oak.
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When you tell people you are a wine merchant, they often assume your days are spent swanning around vineyards and indulging in esoteric discussions about the minutiae of viticulture. The reality is generally rather more mundane. We are running a...