
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...

August 23, 2022
Blended by Us
You will probably have heard the word ‘blend’ used in many contexts – from tea and coffee to perfume or spices. And of course, wine. In fact, it’s more than likely that the wine in your glass ...

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...

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...

April 2, 2020
Domaine Francois Carillon Tasting at Otto’s
I am a big, if totally biased, fan of the Domaine Francois Carillon wines. The historic Domaine Louis Carillon was divided from the 2010 vintage by the two sons Francois and Jacques, there are a few ...

February 10, 2020
Eat. Drink. Love.
Are you planning an elaborate meal at home? Or, are you hunting for a special sparkler to indulge in before dinner reservations? Either way, this is what you should be drinking on Valentine’s Da...

January 27, 2020
Burgundy 2018 Vintage
Burgundy season is now fully underway, following buzzing C&B tastings last week in London, Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Singapore. The 2018 vintage has proved to be delightfully easy to taste – the ...

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...

May 15, 2019
Clos de Tart: The times they are a-changin’
Alessandro Noli, previously of Château Grillet, became the new Régisseur of Clos de Tart in March 2019. Clos de Tart and Château Grillet are two of only seven grands crus monopoles in Fran...