March 27, 2015
Bordeaux 2014 en primeur tastings: Day 1
Following a painfully early alarm call it was the 8am flight to Bordeaux for Alison, Paul, Guy and your blogger Will… The meeting point had to be Jamie’s at Gatwick for a stamina giving breakfast....
March 11, 2015
A Spotlight on Psi – “It is about giving back to Ribeira for all that it has given to me”
On Friday 6th March Peter Sisseck visited Corney & Barrow to showcase Psi and explain the concept behind the wine. The world-famous Dominio de Pingus was founded in 1995 to high acclaim, yet Peter...
February 12, 2015
A Stroll Down The Lane
In 2000, Marty Edwards’ wine making father, John Edwards invited Marty to join him on a journey to France, to visit a range of historic vineyards across a number of classic wine regions, in the ...
January 20, 2015
Famille Labruyere – a new and exciting relationship
New contacts and relationships in the wine world come about in different ways and take different lengths of time to come to fruition (when they do!). “Gestation” can be anything from weeks...
December 8, 2014
Andrea Franchetti – Freedom breaking barriers
When Will Hargrove sent me an invite to join him and the team for a masterclass with Andrea Franchetti from Tenuta di Trinoro, I jumped at the opportunity. The master of Italian Cabernet Franc, Andre...
November 24, 2014
Gazin with Nicolas de Bailliencourt… 1989 to 2011
Wednesday just gone was Gazin at the Café Royal with owner Nicolas de Bailliencourt and Laurent Navarre of Ets JP Moueix. We’d long been wanting to do a dinner to celebrate and highlight this ...
November 3, 2014
Clos des Ducs 1920-2002 @ La Trompette…
This was an a unique opportunity, set up by the hard work of Jordi Orriols-Gil to taste so many different vintages of the Clos des Ducs a 1er Cru monopole belonging to Marquis d’Angerville. I...
October 7, 2014
One Very fine “Cousine”…
So, this Skype-tasting with Stephane Vivier, Hyde Villaine’s Winemaker, from back in July has taken me far too long to write up. The estate itself has a cracking website with lots of information...
December 8, 2013
Some Mitjavile Magic…!
I am very late writing this up but last month there was a visit by Francois Mitavile and the main focus was a Masterclass and Dinner given at Mossiman’s to look at Roc de Cambes and Tertre Rotebo...
October 31, 2012
Bonneau du Martray at The Square with Jean-Charles
Ahead of the Bonneau du Martray dinner at The Square I had the chance to grab a quick taste of the last three vintages: Corton Charlemagne Grand Cru 2009 Generous but still in character with the D...