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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.
In London for tastings and meetings the other day, all was concluded at an appropriate hour for me to take up a kind invitation for lunch in the offices of a rather fine wine importer. (Their wines being rather more than rather fine, I didn't hesitate to accept.)All wines tasted over lunch were exce…
The Lindley Hall, Royal Horticultural Halls, VictoriaThe Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux are a pretty active bunch and, among their many activities, they like to give those in the trade a thorough look at the newly bottled vintage at about this time every year. This year was the turn of 2014: a mo…
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…
