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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.
There's usually someone making free with transmittable germs on any long haul flight. Five days - perhaps a week - later, one finds oneself cursing that individual as first one notices the dryness at the back of one's throat and nose, then deals with ensuing cough and persistent nasal drip. Flying f…
We're currently working the five days of the Country Living Christmas Fair in Islington, marketing The Daily Drinker to those desperate to find presents for difficult wine lovers and I would particularly recommend such an activity to those for whom flat feet are something to be desired. Standing up …
The 2010 vintage, in its oaken residence, awaits my visit in 2011The weather is changing. We emerged from the cellars of Domaine Drouhin-Laroze in Gevrey-Chambertin an hour ago or so and the leaves were throwing themselves about listlessly in the yard, the trees' smaller branches twitching as if in…
Bottles being gradually swallowed by the mould in Antoine Jobard's cellarWriting this early Friday morning, as I didn't get back until late last night following a most enjoyable meal in Bissoh, one of two Japanese restaurants in Beaune. We'd broken for lunch earlier in the day and eaten a really pr…
The vineyards of Savigny-les-Beaune surround the village's graveyardAs I drove out to the first of this afternoon's tastings I noticed a flock of large, heavy birds heading in a generally southerly direction and craned my neck to see what they were, knowing that whatever their ID, they weren't commo…
