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Stacked oak barrels of different ages crowd a cellar floor, an unlabelled bottle and a wax sealed ledger on the nearest barrel head — Negociant is not just reseller
Burgundy

Benjamin Leroux and what negociant really describes

In Burgundy there is a word that quietly halves a wine's perceived value before anyone...
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A weathered stone urn beside scattered Pauillac gravel and a coiled length of rusted chain, morning fog over distant vine rows — The 1855 list undersold this one
Bordeaux

Chateau Batailley and what the 1855 list undersold

In the spring of 1855 the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce received an awkward request. Paris...
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Two decanters side by side on aged oak with one hand carved stopper set between them, gravel and vine leaves scattered — Two estates, one Barton hand
Bordeaux

Barton in Saint-Julien: two estates, one set of hands

Here is a problem that anybody who has tried to learn Bordeaux by tasting has...
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An unlabelled bottle on a terracotta sill beside a torn strip of parchment and a wax seal, cypress trees in hazy hills below — Antinori broke the label rules
Italy

Antinori and the wine that broke Italy's label rules

In the early 1970s a red wine left Tuscany with the words vino da tavola...
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