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This is the blog of wine merchant and communicator, Caspar Bowes. Caspar's blog features reports on new vintages, new vinous discoveries and his general musings on the world of wine.
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07 March 2018
Members of our Daily Drinker educational wine sampling club have received some cracking wines in recent months (even if I do say so myself). Among immediate past mailings have been bottles of wine made from such extraordinary and lesser-known grape varieties as Lacrima, Dafni, Garganega and Tinto Ve…
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09 February 2018
The short crop very much in evidence here, as most of these are available in minuscule quantities. Yet nowhere is that true-ism about high quality following a natural shortfall more evident. These 2016s from the venerable house of Bouchard Père et Fils are exceptionally lo…
Burgundy is all about limestone. Ask a vigneron about the soils in so-and-so vineyard and the common response is argilo-calcaire i.e. clay-limestone. It's a large part of what makes the wines of Burgundy the glorious things they are.Go to Chablis and this phenomenon intensifies. Here we see the effe…
The Hill of Corton with the village of Aloxe on the rightand Pernand just visible on the leftMuch has been said of the 2016 red wine vintage in Burgundy. Wax has been thoroughly lyricked, thus:"2016 is a seriously delicious vintage." Jancis Robinson"...it is at times extraordinarily great, with a cl…
THE VINTAGEFrost and mildew made up the story of the 2016 growing season in Burgundy. Together they ravaged the Côte and led to a sharp diminution in volume. Fruit was thin on the ground.That's the bad news: little fruit; little wine. Yet so often little fruit also means lots of quality a…
