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C&B Spotlight: Thomas Smith

January 23, 2024

C&B Spotlight: Thomas Smith

This month we shine the spotlight on Thomas Smith, Fine Wine Broker and Buyer – based in our London office. Approx 5 minutes 30 seconds read. Q) Tell us a bit about you and your role at Corney &...

Bordeaux 2022: The Sun’s Anvil

May 5, 2023

Bordeaux 2022: The Sun’s Anvil

As Édouard Moueix told us during our recent tastings in Bordeaux, 2022 was a year in which the sudden heat of May jolted flowering to life and ushered in a pattern of heat spikes – one in each of J...

C&B Spotlight: Guy Seddon

April 19, 2023

C&B Spotlight: Guy Seddon

This month we shine the spotlight on Guy Seddon in the Fine Wine Buying team. Q) Tell us a bit about you and your role at Corney & Barrow. I run the Fine Wine Buying Team at C&B. We are resp...

A visit to Ridolfi

January 17, 2023

A visit to Ridolfi

By Ida Weatherall – Visited Wednesday 27th April 2022   The winding road from Siena down to Montalcino is a charming constant of lush greenery and rolling hills. What surprised me most when approac...

Burgundy Vintage Report 2021

December 20, 2022

Burgundy Vintage Report 2021

Burgundy 2021 The 2021 vintage in Burgundy will be remembered for its three nights of intense frost and snow, from 5th to 8th April. Temperatures dropped several degrees below zero, shortly after a su...

Vintage Report – Bordeaux 2021: Back to the Future

April 20, 2022

Vintage Report – Bordeaux 2021: Back to the Future

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine…?” Marty McFly, 1985   Photo credit: Alain Benoit   It seemed that ‘climate change vintages’ were here to stay....

Bordeaux En Primeur – the basics

April 4, 2022

Bordeaux En Primeur – the basics

Spring — bluebells, birdsong and of course, Bordeaux. Now as much as we rejoice at winter’s end and relish the prospect of longer days, warmer weather and the sights and sounds of a new season, at...

Producer spotlight: Nina Mitjavile

March 23, 2022

Producer spotlight: Nina Mitjavile

Nina Mitjavile. Copyright – Leif Carlsson   Nina Mitjavile’s passion for wine was ignited as a child playing in the vines and among the barrels in her father’s wine cellar. This develop...

Burgundy 2020 Vintage Report

December 16, 2021

Burgundy 2020 Vintage Report

The writer William Boyd invented a game in his 2015 novel Sweet Caress, in which anyone can be summed up in four adjectives. We may look at introducing this for C&B tasting notes, but it got me th...

BORDEAUX 2020:  IT’S A WRAP

July 1, 2021

BORDEAUX 2020: IT’S A WRAP

Well, that was Bordeaux 2020. How was it for you? As we said in our initial report (see here), the 2020s are joyous, expressive wines. There is a particular sweetness and intensity of fruit, which shi...

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