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La Gioia Riecine 2004

We have been working with Riecine for only three years, but each year we are more impressed by the quality of their wines. I took a bottle of La Goia 2004 home last night (on Robin and Tom‘s reccomendation). I...

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Sesti's New Clothes

A very striking figure clad fully in black arrived yesterday afternoon at our offices bearing 2 bottles of red wine. The glasses were familiar big round and black, although they could have been red, but the clothes looked strangely un-Italian....

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Ransomes Dock wins AA Wine List of the Year

The London restaurant trade seems to thrive on change. While a few of the classic ground-breaking restaurants of the eighties and early nineties are still in existence, very few are still under the same ownership or management. Not so Ransomes...

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Blinding Brunello

Giugi Sesti is quite simply our favourite Brunello producer. Charming and idiosyncratic, he is a true renaissance man who knows as much about art and astronomy as about wine. He oversees his Brunello estate from his hilltop winery and in...

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Tom's 40th Birthday Lunch

Lunch kicked off with the wrong bottle. Johnny had arranged for a bottle of Laurent Perrier 1990 which we only discovered having opened a brace of Louis Roederer Brut Premiers but we managed to find room for all three. The...

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