The Sun Rising: 2009 Latour
Last week I tasted through just under 170 wines from the 2009 Bordeaux vintage. A full report is here. In the meantime a few words on something rather special....
Category: Notas
More White Wine: Ente & Coche
Back in the olden days, and the olden days are always the best ones (or, rather, were) my then employers were the UK representatives of one Mr Arnaud Ente. Burg...
Kumeu River Chardonnay
Ordinarily, your chances of seeing me at a tasting of 48 white wines from the same producer would be somewhere between none and next to none. But this was a bi...
Château Pavie
If you are a particular sort of wine merchant there are certain wines that you are not supposed to like. Nor are you supposed to encourage your customers to bu...
2016 Burgundy by Olivier Bernstein
After months of inactivity, we are off. It hasn’t been writers’ block, more a lack of anything interesting to write about and, to a not inconsiderable degree, a...