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Oldies but goldies (Don't quote me)
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 20:00Here in the Languedoc we have the world's oldest collection of vinyl. Our 19 year old has just asked me, 'Mum, what's an EP?' and I write this listening to the Stones' second, 1964, album, in mono. 'What a Shame', to be precise. The wine collection is not quite as ancient but there are certainly.
Derenoncourt in America (Tasting articles)
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 20:00Stéphane Derenoncourt , the St-Émilion-based, globe-trotting winemaking consultant, has finally landed in California, not only as an advisor to Francis Ford Coppola at Rubicon Estate in Napa Valley, but also with his own brand, Derenoncourt California. Derenoncourt, who consults for more.
Bordeaux - the 2010 vintage so far (Free for all)
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 20:00To judge from the number of views (nearly 18,000) and the number of posts (more than 200) on our Are you buying 209(sic) bordeaux? thread in Members' forum, many of you are pretty interested in bordeaux. The quality and quantity of the 2010 vintage in Bordeaux is likely to have an effect on demand.
Monty on Rivella, Suckling & Brunello (Don't quote me)
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 20:00Later that same day, Monty added the following: During today (Thursday) a number of people connected with Brunello have contacted me regarding the article below asking how much money I was paid to write it. My answer was that I was not paid any money to write it, nor did I ask for.
A tale of Moueix and Lafite, Chinese style (Inside information)
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 20:00More jaw-dropping images from China via Nick Bartman, who is trying to galvanise the wine trade into action against fraud and fakery via his Wine Protection Group (see more detail in Fighting fraud in China ). As he says, 'This relentless and escalating trend of Chinese fakery is destroying the.
Swartland revolts (Free for all)
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 20:00There are signs of dynamic life in South Africa's backwoods Swartland region , source of an increasing number of truly distinctive wines. The weekend of 12-13 Nov this year is to be devoted to The Swartland Revolution, the first in a series of annual none-too-ceremonious wine weekends in Riebeek.
Clos de Vougeot - producer locations (Inside information)
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 20:00The table below shows the location of the vines that produced the 56 Clos de Vougeot 2008s tasted recently, in the same order as the tasting notes are presented. Conventionally this historic vineyard is divided into the top third, which is the best drained and is closest to such grands crus as.
56 Clos de Vougeot 2008s (Tasting articles)
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 20:00Nearly 60 grand cru burgundies in one tasting session is rare, to say the least. Though nearly 60 burgundies of any sort in an upper, non-air-conditioned room on a very hot day in London is asking a lot of both the tasters and the tasted. But I certainly don't want to look this fascinating gift.
Lapalu, Vieilles Vignes 2009 Brouilly (Wines of the week)
Mon, 07/26/2010 - 20:0028 Jul - updated with many more importers From € 13.55, $17.99 and £16.29 Find this wine Wake up, wake up! This really is the time to go chasing the finest exponents of hand-crafted Beaujolais. It is (in general) quite ludicrously underpriced, as wine writer and ex wine merchant David.
Italy's vineyards mapped by foot (Free for all)
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 20:00Anyone halfway familiar with the maps of the World Atlas of Wine will immediately agree that while France's regions look so tidy and clear, Italy's tangled lines delineating its myriad regions and subregions seem rather to confuse than to clarify the picture. Often this is a direct consequence of.
Burgundies in Sonoma (Inside information)
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 20:00Leave it to Jean-Charles Boisset (pictured left at his new bar) to offer tastings and sales of Burgundy wines on a prominent corner of Sonoma County's trendiest wine country village Healdsburg. It's a cheeky move, for sure, yet the irrepressible Jean-Charles, of Burgundy's Boisset négociant firm.
Home cooking for Singaporeans (Nick on restaurants)
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 20:00The unlikely combination of an email from a reader in Hong Kong announcing her return to her native Singapore and the onset of temperatures close to 30 °C in London prompted a recent visit to Sedap , a small family-run restaurant whose name means 'delicious' in Malay Chinese, situated opposite an.
How to publish your own wine book (Free for all)
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 20:00What is the future of the wine book? Or rather, whither wine book publishers? Life in the online age is tough for most publishers, and wine writers seem increasingly to be taking the initiative. American finance executive turned burgundy guru Allen Meadows , aka Burghound, has just published his.
Even more bordeaux? (Don't quote me)
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 20:00The 2009 primeur campaign is far from over in mainland China. We will be reporting at greater length on the detail of this very particular market. Meanwhile in the UK, Waitrose, the only supermarket to get involved in this potentially lucrative end of the business, reports that they sold four.
Tales of and from my Inbox (Free for all)
Thu, 07/22/2010 - 20:00Thanks to Julia's recent explanatory article on Contacting members via our forum , I finally caught up with a shamefully long list of unanswered private messages awaiting me on the forum. Many, many apologies to all those to whom I must have seemed so impolite for so long. I will certainly try to.
Pancho Campo in the clear (Free for all)
Wed, 07/21/2010 - 20:00Just before the WineFuture Rioja conference last November, rumours surfaced that its chief protagonist and energetic conference organiser Pancho Campo MW was on some Interpol list of wanted criminals. This highly embarrassing allegation apparently stemmed from his time in business in Dubai, before.
A very mature weekend (Tasting articles)
Wed, 07/21/2010 - 20:00Last weekend Nick and I had the pleasure of sharing a weekend of very senior wines in the Dordogne in aid of the Cambodian Children's Fund , courtesy of our hosts Mike and Katie Armitage and the generous winning bidder, Purple pager François Feuillat, who is responsible for all the images here.
Tracking threads on our forum (Inside information)
Wed, 07/21/2010 - 20:00More housekeeping, to follow yesterday's guide to private messages between members via the forum. Another topic raised in our recent members' survey was how most effectively to keep abreast of new additions to a forum thread that particularly interests you. Suppose you are following a particular.
Foster's - new name, new focus? (Free for all)
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 20:00You may have noticed that I am not the biggest admirer of what Australian brewers Foster's have managed to achieve in the wine business. (For example, somehow bring about the virtual disappearance of the once incredibly strong brands Lindemans Bin 65 and James Herrick Chardonnay - and almost.
Choosing a Chinese name (Inside information)
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 20:00The picture shows one of many eye-opening labels recorded in Nick Bartman's recent series on Chinese fakery . Not that Cher's article below is about fakes, but it does show how important names and imagery are in the Chinese market - JR When I first wrote about wine in Chinese some five years ago,.
