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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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23 October 2017
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…
"This is...very impressive..."; and we agree!I lunched with a client in London the other day at a restaurant that, whilst not exactly brand, shiny-new, has rapidly become something of a haven for the wine lovers of Capital City. On the rather bohemian-feeling Lamb's Conduit Street not far from Great…
