by Caspar Bowes

The march of Malbec continues unabated. In Cahors (from where it originated) the grape is experiencing a renaissance, yet Argentine examples still grip the consumer's interest like nothing else. And there are few better exponents of the variety than Achaval Ferrer.I tasted these two the other day an…

I was in London yesterday for two tastings, both relating to wines of Spain.Rioja is, without doubt, that country's most celelbrated…

I offer the wines of Domaine Joseph Voillot in Volnay every vintage. Owner (since father-in-law M Voillot's death last year) and wine maker Jean-Pierre Charlot is one of the most intuitive men to craft red wine in the Côte de Beaune.Jean-Pierre was a lecturer in wine making at the Lycée…

To say I am excited about this wine would be undercooking it like sashimi. There's such hair-curling value lying in this one wine I would almost say that if you are a) a Bowes Wine client and b) a red wine drinker, you are obliged to buy a case at the very minimum. Here's why:We offered the 2008 vin…

The Wines of François MitjavileThere are rather more wine makers that could be described as iconoclasts on the Right Bank of the Gironde than the Left. Whether it is the call of the limestone/clay soils or the Merlot and Cabernet Franc vines that grow in them, the Libourne seems to have more …