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...
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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...
Roc de Cambes
I first met Francois Mitjavile in 2004, to taste both 2003 Tertre-Rôteboeuf and 2003 Roc de Cambes. I was struck by both man and wine, and remember leaving wit...
1996 Grand-Puy-Lacoste and friends
It has been a good couple of weeks. The 1996 Grand-Puy-Lacoste was so good that it warrants a post to itself, and may well get one. In the meantime I have been...