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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.
The mist has persisted all day. We attempted the road "over the top" from Gamay (where we'd been visiting and tasting at the Domaine Marc Colin) to the hamlet of Blagny. The thought was that we may find ourselves above the fog at altitude. Ha! The photograph above was taken more-or-less at the highe…
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: …
