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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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Champagne

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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Bordeaux

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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Bordeaux

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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Italy

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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Producer Guide

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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Bordeaux

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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Bordeaux

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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Burgundy

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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Champagne

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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Producer Guide

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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Champagne

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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