
January 12, 2023
Ida Weatherall on Burgundy
A day in Burgundy – Tasting En Primeur After four years working hard on the sales floor at C&B, I earnt my stripes to join Guy Seddon, Head of Fine Wine Buying, for our Burgundy 2021 en primeu...

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...

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....

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...

May 6, 2021
Bordeaux 2020: Holy Trinity or Three’s a Crowd?
2020 in Bordeaux is good. It’s really good. But coming hot on the heels of two strong vintages, we’re going to need some convincing. Sequels are notoriously tricky and Part Three is the thorniest ...

December 23, 2020
C&B Burgundy 2019 Vintage Report
2019 is a mouth-watering vintage in Burgundy. Thanks to the flexibility of our brilliant family of producers and the well-worn courier route from Burgundy to London, we have managed to taste widely an...

June 29, 2020
Bordeaux Bulletin #3: A Clean Pair of Heels
Blink and you’d have missed it but that was Bordeaux 2019, folks. That vapour trail you see disintegrating in the clear blue sky? As ephemeral as an allocation of Mouton 2019. Before we get into the...

June 15, 2020
Bordeaux Bulletin #2: Fever Pitch
Phew, what a week. Fears that there would be no 2019 Bordeaux campaign have been swept away in a deluge of releases, reaching a high-water mark last week. Things started positively and, in retrospect,...

May 29, 2020
Bordeaux 2019: virus prone?
Bordeaux finds itself in a dilemma. How to sell the 2019 vintage as the starting pistol is fired on what will likely prove to be the global recession of a lifetime? The elephant in this particular roo...

June 8, 2019
“Wine is one of the most civilised things in existence” – Jean-Louis Trapet, Domaine Trapet
Bringing Burgundy season to a close are the brilliant 2017s of Jean-Louis Trapet. Guy Seddon, explores how these wines are more than worth the wait… One of the many things I like about...