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Good News From Gasull (Olive Oil Producer)
June 12, 2014
There has been much deserved publicity lately about the hunting of migrant birds as they fly over the Mediterranean heading north for the breeding season.  Malta has been singled out as perhaps the worst perpetrator, with a varied selection of means of destruction being employed, including reports of harriers being shot on the ground at […]
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Tabali Winery, Chile
February 20, 2014
I suppose it might appear to be a form of torture and you may well ask why we do it, but you cannot have enjoyed being part of the wine trade for as long as we have without being equally eager to explore food and wine combinations and developing an abiding interest in all forms […]
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Fairtrade Fortnight - Bit Lukewarm Actually. Here's Why...
February 20, 2014
Any minute now we should all expect a tap with the “worthy” stick as retailers try to persuade us to buy Fairtrade.  Many of us will respond and pay the extra for what are, as far as anyone can tell, the same bananas/coffee/chocolate (delete as appropriate) we bought last week with the exception of the […]
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Call Time On Duty
January 15, 2014
Now that the smoke has cleared away from Christmas and the New Year celebrations we start to look forward to the late winter and spring tastings put on by our suppliers.  It’s part of the planning process to fill gaps in the list and to discover new lines and new growers, as well as consolidating […]
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A Basic Guide To Sherry
October 3, 2013
Don't give up now - you've already come so far...! So you think you don't like Sherry?  We'd be prepared to bet that you just haven't met the right one yet.  Maybe you had an unfortunate experience in a previous life with an unfortunate sweet, brown, sticky liquid in the 1970s... Even if you think […]
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Domaine Charles Baur, Eguisheim
August 13, 2013
We estimate that for every wine we eventually include in our range we taste over 30 samples; most are rejected because either they not good enough, or not interesting enough, or simply because they are too expensive for what they are.  A few areas of our list present us with a different sort of challenge […]
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Overheard Conversation
July 16, 2013
There was hard-nosed Australian lady, a shiny-suited English bloke – senior manager or director I’d guess – and another woman of indeterminate rank who wore a business suit and smiled a lot.  This is not the opening line of a joke (not entirely anyway), but the little crew who sat behind us at a break […]
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Champagne - Rasselet & Lallier
June 5, 2013
There’s nothing quite like Champagne.  Sure, there are plenty of fizzy wines out there, but sometimes only Champagne will do.  As Lily Bollinger once famously said "I only drink Champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with […]
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Recent Additions From The New World
May 29, 2013
Australia With the Soldier’s Block lines creeping up in price, and the Shiraz going through the £8 barrier (thanks mostly to George Osborne and a terrible exchange rate) we have looked again at our straight Chardonnay and Shiraz options from Australia and returned to a couple of lines we featured at our pre-Christmas tasting last […]
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New French Wines
May 28, 2013
Where do we start with our new French wines to buy online?  We have several new Clarets ranging from the youthful and bouncy 2011 Ch.Tire Pe Diem to the more mature 2007 Ch.Noaillac - a Cru Bourgeois from the Medoc.  Then there’s the elegant roundness of 2009 Ch.Haut Rian, a 1er Cotes de Bordeaux and […]
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The Mourat wines are back...!
May 22, 2013
In the spring of 2005 a trio of samples in curiously-shaped bottles with an owl on the label appeared on our tasting table.  They were a revelation; a crisp, aromatic white, a gentle lively rose and a juicy red.  They came from something of an unexpected source, a producer called Mourat located on the edge […]
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2011 Vintage Port Offer
May 16, 2013
The 2011 vintage in the Douro began with a warm spring which led to early flowering and was followed by three very dry months where rainfall only reached 25mm compared to the average of 94mm.  Well timed rains then arrived on 21st August creating ideal conditions for ripening and harvest which were so perfect as […]
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