When wrong becomes right
Between the green rolling landscape of Anjou-Saumur and Touraine along the serene Loire and the rough, scrubby hillsides inland from…
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Mummy Bear
The “mother of all bear markets” is how Wine Asset Managers (WAM) describe the fine-wine market in their June report,…
New connoisseurship
It did one memorable afternoon in February 1982 on the top floor of New Zealand House in London’s Haymarket, where…
When wine stops words
I cannot drink wine while writing and write anything worth reading. This feels like an appalling oversight from whoever assigned…
A case of … Gerard Basset OBE MS MW
1. The first wine What was it?It was a long time ago! I was very young and I don’t remember…
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An autobiography by the glass
Wine journalists all know the kind of in-depth retrospective tastings winemakers usually put on for the press — verticals showing…
A case of … Vijay Amritraj
1. The first wine The most important questions really are not “what” (or when) but why? This is the only…
Hengst: a thoroughbred stallion?
Earlier in the summer, I was part of a group of journalists who spent the morning in the grand cru…
