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- January 19, 2017
Who better to ask where to wine and dine in London than vinous and culinary experts? Decanter’s tasting director chats to the Decanter World Wine Award judges and finds out their favourite London wine haunts. It is a privilege to live in London. We Londoners have so many vinous and gastronomic delights on our doorstep. […]
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- January 13, 2017
The controversial Pavie 2003 traded at a new high of £2,440 per 12×75 last week after rising substantially this year. Critic reviews of the vintage have been divided. Jancis Robinson famously scored the wine 12/20 in barrel, calling it “ridiculous”; Robert Parker awarded it 97-100 around the same time. Read more at Parker […]
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- January 13, 2017
A London wine bar is set to be opened by the youngest daughter of Château Margaux’s owner in the next few months. Alexandra Petit-Mentzelopoulos, the youngest daughter of Corinne Mentzelopoulos, owner of Château Margaux in Bordeaux, is to open a wine bar in London in the Spring of 2017. Read more at Château Margaux […]
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- January 05, 2017
How to understand tasting notes: Are you puzzled by terms like dosage and flavours like leafy? Dosage After a traditional-method sparkling wine is disgorged, the liqueur d’expédition is added to create the final dosage. This addition of sugary liquid is used to balance the high acidity levels. With the correct addition, the dosage can accentuate […]
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- January 01, 2017
December 2016 Wine Investment Report This month showed another increase in the fine wine market. Data from the London Vintners Exchange Index showed strong performance for the month of November. Our valuations also showed a positive increase in line with the index results. Bordeaux wines showed an increase of 0.89% in December versus November and […]
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- December 02, 2016
Counterfeit wine expert Maureen Downey is set to launch a new system to combat the growing issue of wine fraud. In partnership with diamond-certifiers Everledger, the Chai Wine Vault system promises to secure wine’s provenance and authenticity by storing it in a digital ledger that uses a ‘blockchain’ system – essentially a database where each […]
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- December 02, 2016
Landmark research paves way to full genome map of Cabernet Sauvignon that could help winemakers battle a changing climate, writes Amanda Barnes after speaking to UC Davis researchers in California. Landmark research into the genome sequence of Cabernet Sauvignon could change how we breed grape varieties in the future. UC Davis revealed the first draft […]
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- December 01, 2016
November 2016 Wine Investment Report Data on the fine wine market according to the London Vintners exchange AND our monthly valuations showed another increase in the fine wine market in November versus Octobers prices. This month showed exceptional gains, with performance in many first growth Bordeaux Vintages. Bordeaux maintains the lions share of the market […]
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- November 24, 2016
If we look back to 2006 and consider how mainland China’s wine market has changed, it’s first worth considering just how young that market was. By 2006, the imported wine market was barely 15 years old and Chinese wine production, though expanded in the 1980s, had not yet made the leaps in quality that some […]
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- November 24, 2016
Choosing Thanksgiving wine is a minefield of trying to pair with many flavours of the dinner table and attempting to please all the family. Ray Isle gives us his top tips for finding the perfect bottles… See the 2016 wine recommendations from William Kelley below Writing about Thanksgiving wine pairings is, for wine writers, almost as […]
