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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.
I set off from Wiltshire early yesterday morning. Driving up the Test Valley along the A303, the mist filled the lowlands to my right, trees, houses, pylons sticking up through the vapours, the whole scene bathed in silvery white sunshine. We arrived at Beaune yesterday evening. I quickly applied a …
Just about room to move at the Bowes Wine 10th anniversary tasting at Crown Wine Cellars in Shouson HillA very fine and pleasant dust is falling following Bowes Wine tastings in Hong Kong and Singapore, the pair of them separated by just four days.Tasters in both locations assembled to sample about …
Meursault fermenting in oakI am beginning to think that, like a reincarnated dog, white burgundy is about to "have its day" all over again. Having been caught between the rock of the ABC (Anything But Chardonnay) movement and the hard place of PremOx (see here), the wine drinking public's adoration …
I recently spent a couple of days in Friuli: a kind invitation from a go-ahead UK wine importer with which we work. I was fascinated to discover just what this coner of Italy was like. It is the source of much of the country's best white wine. It has its own language, regularly used, spoken by all: …
St Emilion vineyard and worker"It has become clear that the world's wine consumers are well into a period of Bordeaux fatigue and one wonders where/when it will all stop. I've been running through future scenarios in my head - 2012 gives average quality at a low price; it offers great, classic wines…
