01 Jun
Bordeaux En Primeur 2021 Overview
It has been an intense couple of weeks with the releases from Bordeaux En Primeur flooding in over a...
31 May
How To Buy Wine En Primeur
Buying wines En Primeur ultimately means purchasing wines that are still in barrel, yet to be bottle...
06 May
Bordeaux 2021 Vintage Report
For the first time in three long years, the international wine trade was able to make their annual p...
11 Feb
The versatility of Chateau d’Yquem
It needs little introduction. Chateau d'Yquem, often described as the greatest sweet wine in the wor...
04 Feb
Best of Brunello: Our top buys of 2017 & 2016 Riservas
February marks an exciting month for fans of Tuscan wines as it heralds the release of the 2017 Brun...
11 Jun
Bordeaux 2020 Vintage Report
The parts that form this report were being passed digitally, yet calmly around the office, taking fo...
13 Jan
Burgundy 2019 Vintage Report
It is no secret that climate change is making a significant impact on the majority of Europe’s viney...
09 Dec
Rhone 2019 Vintage Report
As 2019 marks the fifth consecutive vintage in which the wines can be considered very good or even t...
26 May
Bordeaux 2019 Vintage Report
Over the past few months, the world has experienced the greatest disruption of our lifetime and whil...
28 Feb
Brunello 2015 Vintage Report
The 2015 vintage of Brunello di Montalcino is quite simply one which approaches an unprecedented lev...
13 Jan
Rhone 2018 Vintage Report
The arrival of the 2018 vintage marks yet another resounding success in a series of four vintages wh...
15 Apr
Bordeaux 2018 Vintage Report
The 2018 Bordeaux vintage seeks to contrast two extreme weather cycles. The two excesses taken in is...
16 Jan
Burgundy 2017 Report
Pretty much across the board, the 2017 vintage was reported as ‘an absolute joy’, growers have descr...
21 Dec
Burgundy 2018 Harvest Report
For the last 2 years the wine trade, and particularly Burgundy, has been in turmoil about global win...
21 Dec
Bordeaux 2018 Harvest Report
2018 was complicated, unusual and varied even by Bordeaux standards. Bordeaux was hit by extraordina...
13 Dec
2016 Wine Advocate Bottle Scores – La Chapelle de La Mission 94 Point Star of the Vintage
On late Friday afternoon Lisa Perotti-Brown released her in bottle Wine Advocate scores for the high...
04 Jun
Bordeaux 2017 En Primeur Best Releases
According to data released by Liv-ex, UK sales of en primeur halved from 2016 to 2017, following an ...
20 Apr
Bordeaux 2017 En Primeur Report
The 2017 vintage in Bordeaux is a fascinating one, a heterogenous one and can now be confirmed as go...
28 Jun
Bordeaux EP 16: Best Sellers, Must Haves & Best Value Wines
The 2016 Bordeaux En Primeur campaign was one of the fastest that we have ever seen, bookended by tw...
24 Apr
Bordeaux 2016 En Primeur Report
We have just returned from Bordeaux and tasting the 2016 vintage. Early reports from Bordeaux and th...
16 May
Bordeaux en Primeur 2015 – Review
Over the last two weeks the 2015 en primeur campaign has seen several high profile releases selling ...
29 Apr
Neal Martin Bordeaux 2015 Scores Released
This afternoon Neal Martin, Robert Parker’s successor at the Wine Advocate has released his 2015 rep...
08 Apr
Bordeaux 2015 En Primeur Report
Vintage Conditions
The 2015 vintage started off with a cool front, February was one of the coldest o...
26 Jun
Bordeaux En Primeur 2014 vintage round-up
There is little question that quality of the 2014 vintage is good, often very good and in a few case...