Burgundy Archive

The Launch of Domaine François Carillon

Last Thursday saw the launch of our latest exclusivity – Domaine François Carillon – Alison (Buchanan) has done a full offer so I will not repeat that here but give more my view of the wines. The venue was Le Cerle near Sloane Square, which gave proceedings a suitably chic feel....
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Corney & Barrow In the Press

   The top 10 at Corney & Barrow  18 Aug 2011 by Richard Hemming, JancisRobinson.com Corney & Barrow very kindly offered subscribers to this site some free tickets to their summer tasting in June. They didn't come without a catch, however, since I asked the lucky few to rank and score their top...
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Clos de Tart – A Dinner for true Burgundophiles..

Three years ago, launching Clos de Tart as C & B’s ‘hot’ new exclusivity was a little harder work than we would like to have let on. A Domaine that we truly believed in but whose reputation had waned in the years before Sylvain Pitiot - current ‘master’ - arrived....
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Anne-Claude Leflaive is in Town…

Last thursday we were delighted to have Anne-Claude Leflaive over for a wonderful dinner at The Greenhouse. We started with the delicious Bourgogne Blanc 2005 as an aperitif. The wine was just starting to open up and worked well, some balanced richness starting to emerge, no rush at all but...
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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. A Very Special Dinner with Aubert de Villaine

It is always a treat to have Aubert de Villaine in the UK to show the Domaine’s wines but for a whole evening, over dinner, was a real privilege. The setting of the Drapers Hall (as recently seen in ‘The King's Speech’) was perfect.  We had Salon 1997 from magnum...
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Romanée-Saint-Vivant 1999-2009

What difference a couple of weeks can make. Two weeks previously I had been in Burgundy to collect samples for our Burgundy ’09 tasting. The vineyards were thick with frost and difficult to discern through freezing fog. As Adam Brett-Smith and I arrived later on in the month, the fog had...
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Corney & Barrow’s Burgundy 09 Tasting at the Tower

Last Thursday saw the 5th C&B Burgundy tasting - not quite sure where the time has gone but the 2005 was a good vintage to start on. Nearly 300 customers managed to make it along to the Tower to taste – our largest tasting ever. I think people sometime have...
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Bonneau du Martray’s Jean-Charles is in Town

Last Thursday was Bonneau du Martray (BdM) day at C&B with Jean-Charles le Bault de la Morinière in town. For some crazy reason since we won the agency for the two wines of BdM - the 2009 is our 10th vintage - I have always managed to be away when...
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The First Day of the Annual C & B Scottish Tasting

  Its been 21 years since Alison Buchanan chaired her first Autumn Tasting at the Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire and much has changed with the fabric of the hotel but the service, food and the quality of our exclusive producers remains top notch. Yesterday saw 150 guests taste wine from some of...
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Notes from Hong Kong : A dinner demonstrating just how much fine wine is being drunk and enjoyed over in Asia

This is short and to the point - the line up does all the talking: On reception: Henri Giraud, Fut de Chêne, 1998 Champagne in magnum White Wines: Le Montrachet, Henri Boillot, 2000 Le Montrachet, Domaine Ramonet 1988 Red wines: Château La Mission Haut-Brion 1989 Château Haut-Brion 1989 Clos des Lambrays 1949 in magnum Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Château Rayas 1990 Clos St Denis,...
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