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L'Evangile, Pomerol, and buying for Saturday not 2040
The single most reliable statistic in the wine trade is also the least discussed: the...
Read moreLaurent-Perrier and the harder way to make rose Champagne
There are two ways to make a pink Champagne, and they are not two versions...
Read moreLascombes and what a second wine is really made of
A second wine usually gets explained as whatever the estate could not put in the...
Read moreChateau Lagrange and the estate that was rebuilt
Every serious Bordeaux estate throws wine away. Not literally — it sells it, under a...
Read moreLa Spinetta, Barolo and Barbaresco nine kilometres apart
Two wines from villages nine kilometres apart, made from the same grape, aged in similar...
Read moreLa Rioja Alta and what those Reserva years really mean
Three bottles sit on a shelf. One says Crianza, one says Reserva, one says Gran...
Read moreLa Lagune and the gravel at the southern end of the Medoc
For most of its history the strip of land now producing the most expensive Cabernet...
Read moreChateau Kirwan and the soil behind perfumed Margaux
Wine writing describes Margaux as perfumed and Pauillac as powerful. The words are so worn...
Read moreJoseph Colin and the Chassagne surname problem
You are looking at a wine list in Central and there are three white Burgundies...
Read moreJeeper and what a small Champagne house can and cannot do
Two producers make Champagne from the same slope in the same year. One of them...
Read moreHighland Park and why island whisky is not all peat
Ask ten people what island whisky tastes like and nine will describe the same thing:...
Read moreHenriot and how a house tastes the same every year
Here is a problem worth sitting with for a moment. The weather in northern France...
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