Archive for 2017
Calling all HK-based clients...The next Crown Cellars shipment from the United Kingdom to Hong Kong will leave the UK on 2nd September. Deadline for the receipt of wines is 22nd August. Estimated date of arrival in Hong Kong is 29th September.If you wish to add any of your UK-based wine to these shi…
Posted in by Caspar Bowes
23 June 2017
Being a wine merchant in the UK one gets to go to tastings in some pretty extraordinary locations; few are finer, however, than the space at the top of the Millbank Tower: a lofty eyrie dwarfing the Tate Britain at its feet. Above is just one of the many vistas that present themselves from its windo…
As you may be aware, we love nothing more than truffling about, nose to the ground, sniffing out quality and vinous excitement in unexpected quarters for The Daily Drinker Wine Club. Well, you can imagine how much this big, bold red from The Republic of Macedonia - a wine included in April's Daily D…
An eclectic new, short-but-pithy list of broking tidbits from Bowes Wine Clients. All are listed on our sister company, GrapePip.com, the wine auction website:2008 Château Lafleur, Pomerol"Great presence in the mouth and great concentration..." Jancis Robinson2010 Côte Rôtie Cordel…
Back in the mists of time, the châteaux of Bordeaux behaved in a sensible manner. The 1989 vintage - a harvest torrid in the extreme and one that, yes, produced some fabulous wines (Haut Brion being the pinnacle) but a great many ugly ducklings - was widely taken up by the world's wine lovers.…
