A Bannockburn Bulletin
Many of our clients have asked to be kept in the loop regarding the recent winemaking changes at Bannockburn, so here’s what we know so far. Michael Glover has of course flown the coop and, as we write...
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Matt Holmes, Bannockburn’s new chief winemaker: a brief bio
Matt has spent two years as Assistant Winemaker at Dromana Estate prior to duties as Vintage Winemaker at Bannockburn in 2005. He travelled to Canada after the Bannockburn vintage to take up the...
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Vino Quantico, Etna: Lava Lovin'
Of all the new grower wines we shipped last year, I’m guessing none jumped out the blocks as quickly as Vino Quantico. I know this because when I went to grab a few bottles shortly after the release...
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'15 Trade Days: new arrivals, releases, discovouries and friends...
Much can happen in a year. Over the past 12 months, we’ve bid adieu to some old friends while introducing a stack of new ones, both from home and further afield. 2014/15 has also paid host to some of...
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Müller-Catoir? Let’s dance.
My name is Robert Walters, and I’m a Riesling lover. It’s been several hours since my last Riesling. If there was a self-help group for Riesling lovers, then I know that many of us would be members....
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Domaine Goisot: In the Yonne with Guilhem Goisot and his underdogs…
Photo © James Broadway Photography In the hills and slopes just outside the AOC of Chablis and south of Auxerre there are two AOCs: Saint-Bris, for Sauvignon Blanc and Bourgogne Côtes d’Auxerre...
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After decades of experience in vineyard management and consultancy with Domaines like Comtes Lafon, Zind-Humbrecht and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti – Cyrille Bongiraud, and his partner Estelle Germain...
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Corofin: Small Batch, artisanal Pinot from the southern valleys of...
At last we have started to find some available New Zealand wines that are getting us excited. First there was Michael Glover’s Mammoth project. Then, finding ourselves in the right place at the right...
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Bittersweet—in Rully with Vincent Dureuil
It has been quite some time since we have been in a position to send out an offer of Vincent Dureuil’s wines. Last year’s tiny allocation of his 2011s didn’t make it past the noses of previous buyers....
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Sleeping Beauty (aka The Lost Vines of Europe): In Serbia with Cyrille and...
Once upon a time in SerbiaLook, it’s a long story but it is one well worth telling, and anyway, it is one we are compelled to tell in order to give the remarkable wines below their proper context. So...
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