Happy New Year. May 2016 bring you happiness and health. I’d bumped into Dan Jago a few times over the years before I met him proper at the Roederer Awards in September last year (I lost to Victoria Moore, but managed to play with her remarkable trophies for a while). By that time the word […]
Continue reading →Anyone for a legend? I knew that these three would be good: there was no question at all about that, but, like the man himself, there is that final sparkle that sets brilliance above the merely excellent. In the same way that great wines don’t need long notes, Barry Phillips needs little introduction. Whilst it […]
Continue reading →2014 Duhart-Milon was released last week. Working on margins that make a wine merchant wonder why they didn’t work harder at school, it is offered in the UK at £400 per dozen bottles in bond. Which is €42 a bottle off the negociants. Even with well-bought euros the margin struggles to get into two figures. […]
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