Thursday 24 September turned into a rather unique event when we brought together two of the world’s leading wine producers at a dinner at Café Royal. The dinner was hosted by Brice de la Morandiè...

What an evening! The 2015 harvest was all in and by all accounts looks superb at Clos de Tart as Sylvain Pitiot passes the baton to Jacques Devauges, formerly of Domaine de L’Arlot and Clos de ...

My favourite producer trip every year will not surprise anyone anyone who knows me. It is the one where we go to see and taste with Roberto Conterno at Cantina Giacomo Conterno in Piedmont. This year ...

The place: Bonhams new restaurant (more about that later). The wines: a vertical of Domaine de Chevalier. Blanc – 1986, 1976, 1975, 1970, 1967, 1966, 1964 and 1962 Rouge – 1964, 1961, 1960, 1959, ...

I have a ‘bucket list’ of winemakers that I would like to meet. Marchese Lodovico Antinori features high on the list so you can imagine my excitement when I heard he was attending a dinner...

So the last day dawned, a beautiful day for tasting with a fresh temperature and little cloud cover. This was nice timing as the first stop was Petrus. To a certain degree it is a nerve wracking pace ...

Finally a morning came with no rain! It was however a very early start with a tour and tasting at Les Carmes Haut-Brion a property we have followed for some time now. They have a totally new set up be...

Having negotiated an early breakfast, though sadly no hot eggs and bacon, at 7am we were off and running by 7.30 heading up to Branire-Ducru for the first visit of the day. Rubbish weather at Branaire...

An early Sunday departure at 8.30am, with an hour lost to the clock change was a nervous one as Mr Marus had not the chance to make a baguette to be sure of surviving the morning (he needs a regular i...

These trips tend to quickly slot into a pattern very quickly. The ‘van’ seemed to instantly organise itself into rows by body type, with the lean and tall taking the middle row and the cha...