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Bordeaux
L'Evangile, Pomerol, and buying for Saturday not 2040
The single most reliable statistic in the wine trade is also the least discussed: the...
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Laurent-Perrier and the harder way to make rose Champagne
There are two ways to make a pink Champagne, and they are not two versions...
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Lascombes and what a second wine is really made of
A second wine usually gets explained as whatever the estate could not put in the...
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Chateau Lagrange and the estate that was rebuilt
Every serious Bordeaux estate throws wine away. Not literally — it sells it, under a...
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La Spinetta, Barolo and Barbaresco nine kilometres apart
Two wines from villages nine kilometres apart, made from the same grape, aged in similar...
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La Rioja Alta and what those Reserva years really mean
Three bottles sit on a shelf. One says Crianza, one says Reserva, one says Gran...
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La 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...
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Chateau Kirwan and the soil behind perfumed Margaux
Wine writing describes Margaux as perfumed and Pauillac as powerful. The words are so worn...
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Joseph Colin and the Chassagne surname problem
You are looking at a wine list in Central and there are three white Burgundies...
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Jeeper 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...
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Highland Park and why island whisky is not all peat
Ask ten people what island whisky tastes like and nine will describe the same thing:...
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Henriot 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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