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Languedoc & Roussillon Top 40
After years in the vinous wilderness, Languedoc & Roussillon have reinvented themselves in the past decade, transforming the reputation of Southern French winemaking from biggest contributor to Europe’s wine lake to the most exciting place in the world to be making wine. There’s more about that in this month’s newsletter, but regular customers will be [...]
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The Wines of Bruno Giacosa
We were very privileged to have Bruna, the daughter of Bruno Giacosa, the ‘professor’ of Nebbiolo in a while back to present the latest releases from the hallowed estate. We started off with the 2004 Spumante, a wine first made in 1983. 100% Pinot Noir purchased from a single grower, this is interestingly enough one [...]
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Neal Martin talks about our 1982 Bordeaux Tasting
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1982 Bordeaux Horizontal – The Review
So, how were the wines? Well we approached them in four flights and here is what I made of them. Flight one: Vray Croix de Gay, Ormes de Pez and Meyney The first flight was of three relatively modest wines, one Pomerol and two Cru Bourgeois properties from St Estephe. We started with VCdG and [...]
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1982 Bordeaux
In anticipation of our horizontal tasting of 1982 Bordeaux tonight, Mark shares his thoughts on the vintage and that man Parker. 1982 is often spoken about in the same breath as other great 20th century vintages such as ‘29, ‘45, ‘47, ‘59 and ‘61 – another of those candidates for ‘vintage of the century’ that [...]
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2009 – The Annual
The dust is yet to settle, but it is already apparent that 2009 was the most successful year (and Christmas trading period) to date for the team at Roberson Wine. Obviously we are all delighted, especially as this time last year it was nigh on impossible to find anyone that was feeling positive about life [...]
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The Road to Rhone – Day 1
You have got your passport haven’t you Mark? With those seven words horror passed through the car as we realized the long drive to Burgundy was going to get even longer. Still, the way I figured it, everyone is allowed to forget their passport once in their life, if you do it for a second [...]
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Jancis Robinson MW at our Echezeaux Tasting
Last night’s Echezeaux tasting contained some fascinating wines, everybody seemed to enjoy themselves, and we were very lucky to be joined by various luminaries from the wine world. Here shop manager and tall cameraman Joe talks through the wines, good and bad with Jancis Robinson MW.
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Visiting Domaine Ott
It was a bit like turning up for a blind date, casting my eyes around Heathrow terminal five, trying to identify my companions for a trip to Domaine Ott, who, I realised I had no contact details for. Luckily, there seemed a group who looked like they had just met each other and were talking [...]
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High Steaks Blind Tasting