Archive for October 2016

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…