Hyde de Villaine: One of California’s most prized vineyards, drawn across the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. It took time and a lot of persuasion but, finally, common sense prevailed when two great vi...

Peter Sisseck’s Dominio de Pingus “To make a wine like Pingus 2017 in such a difficult year is a result of a top terroir worked in a specific manner over many years . It is a combination of ma...

Clos de Tart is a Domaine I am delighted to know really pretty well having worked with the wine for 10 vintages now. This particular evening was a very special one for a few reasons: It was a very com...

Peter Sisseck’s Rocheyron Château Rocheyron is situated in Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes, just 3.6km from the centre of Saint-Émilion, on the edge of the celebrated limestone plateau. As a young...

Peter Sisseck discusses the future of Bordeaux and his 2017 vintage, during our recent en primeur tasting trip. Watch below: View all Bordeaux 2019 releases ...

I am going back to November last year for a write-up of a cracking dinner at C&B HQ. We had both Edouard and Kelley Moueix with us for an “At Home” in the dining room. With ETS J.P.Moueix havi...

This was a special weekend. Earlier in the year we, C&B, were asked to get a few top customers together and head to Domaine Leflaive to be at the Tricentenaire celebration of the Leflaive famille ...

Late June every other year sees VinExpo in Bordeaux…oddly I’ve never actually been to the main halls. This year we, a few of the team at C&B, got the invite to celebrate the 80th anniversary o...

This tasting was a little while in the making, it was something I’ve wanted to do for some time. A conversation with the unique (word used properly) Francois Mitjavile while tasting the 2016s back i...

Moueix 2017 “A vintage with strings but without trumpets” – Christian Moueix Some wines you taste, almost mechanically, before jotting down a note and moving onto the next one. Most ...