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 &...

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...

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...

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 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...

“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....

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...

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...

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...

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...