by Caspar Bowes

I visited St James's the other day to taste through the 2016 wines from the Perrin family of Château de Beaucastel. And it's quite a tasting, since besides the famed Châteauneuf estate the Perrins have interests throughout the Rhône Valley (at least in the south), as well as at Tab…

You may remember a recent communication detailing a mature Austrian found lurking in Bowes Wine's stock list: a wine I snaffled for home usage and am enjoying enormously. In any event, I have recorded a video tasting note that you can see hereif interested.A client in the throes of organising an Aus…

Tuesday of this week was B Day in Capital City: the annual presentation of the newly-bottled Bordeaux vintage. This was the turn of the 2015 vintage and I cannot say that I wasn't just a little bit intrigued to revisit these wines. Primeurs week in Bordeaux in early '16 had revealed a vintage t…

Some years ago I visited Galicia to taste wine. It was the dead of winter, yet the beauty of this Atlantic coast of Spain was still easy to discern.After driving south from Santiago de Compostela and taking in a number of Albariño producers en route, we turned inland, following the River Mi&n…

The Bowes Wine YouTube ChannelI've been tasting a great many fabulous wines of late and not only out and about, but also at home: wines from my own portfolio bought from Bowes Wine offers past.I realise that some of you may well still have these wines in your own portfolios and might be interested t…