April 16, 2024
Bordeaux 2023 at C&B: setting the scene
It’s going to be an early, quick campaign. That, at least, is the word from Bordeaux. We’d better get started then. We are going to do things a little differently this year, in our communications...
January 15, 2024
Burgundy 2022: The Market
Will Hargrove, Head of Fine Wine 1 minute read It feels to me, and I sense I am not alone, that both the 2022 (and 2023 that will follow) are important vintages for Burgundy. Why? Well, let’s start...
January 15, 2024
ON THE ROAD WITH JOE MULLER
Head of Monopole 2 minutes read Visiting Burgundy always nourishes me in both heart and mind. It is the vinous Mecca in my eyes and each trip offers something new. My outings this year to taste the ...
January 15, 2024
20 YEARS ON FROM THE SCORCHING 2003 VINTAGE
Is Burgundy learning to live with climate change? Guy Seddon, Head of Fine Wine Buying 2 minutes read Édouard Labet commented, “Global warming is a real challenge for our viticulture, but it is als...
January 15, 2024
In conversation with Graham Moss…
Senior Fine Wine Sales Executive 4 minutes read The first thing that struck me was when you arrive, you are whisked down to their cellars… And they’ve got a very full cellar of the ‘22 and...
December 14, 2023
Burgundy 2022: walking on sunshine?
Finally, some volume. Having tasted in painfully empty cellars over the past few years, particularly in the Côte de Beaune, 2022 has arrived like a breath of fresh air. After the historically tiny 20...
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...