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A Night to remember with Lodovico Antinori

Our last big dinner of 2011 was a cracker, no older vintages here as this is a new project but one set for great things I think. The actual launch was last year at Mossiman’s so this year was a lower key and focussed dinner here at C&B’s HQ. We...
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Roberto Conterno – 2 days, 2 dinners

On Wednesday night last week I was delighted to host a dinner at Franco's in Jermyn Street - Roberto Conterno of Cantina Giacomo Conterno and his assistant Lauren were in town for this and another dinner (see below). It was a select bunch of hardened Barolo fans. We started with...
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2011 Corney & Barrow Winter Tasting

  As far as venues go, the Tower of London tends to speak for itself. It certainly wasn’t difficult to give directions. Once ensconced in the Tower, Champagne was chosen as a starting point by most customers, so let’s do the same. Tempting as it was to go straight for the...
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Exclusive Interview with Michel and Bastien Tardieu from Tardieu-Laurent

We recently had Michel Tardieu and his son Bastien in the UK for a dinner at The Palm. Before this I did an interview with them both in our tasting room. Please excuse the awful Moustache (link to Movember blog here!) At the tasting / dinner the wines were: Tasting Côtes-du-Rhône, Guy Louis...
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Movember’s Team La Tache

During the Summer of this year a friend of mine and I agreed to grow moustaches in order to profoundly irritate a very conservative fellow commuter that we both know well.  Time passed and we forgot about it.  However, when I heard about the Movember charity I remembered our idea...
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Corney & Barrow In the Press

Corney & Barrow In The Press Achaval Ferrer Quimera 2008 'Ambitious blends of Mendoza Malbec fruit with several Bordeaux varieties.  The former smoky, spicy and unmistakably Argentinian on the nose, quite seriously structured with firm, fine tannins, unashamedly weighty, but balanced and age worthy.' Peter McCombie MW, Harpers Magazine (September 23rd) Shiraz Eagle Vale 2005 'Bouquet...
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A Great Tasting for a ‘Bunch’ of Independents

‘The Bunch’ is a concept which deserves more air time; made up of 6 leading Independent Wine Merchants – Adnams, Berry Bros & Rudd, Corney & Barrow, Lea & Sandeman, Tanners and Yapp – the group was formed nearly 20 years ago with the aim of providing a Code of...
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Sir Clive Woodward Celebrity Golf Day

Corney & Barrow were pleased to support this event for the Wooden Spoon charity, the children’s charity of Rugby, at Lambourne Golf Club. Along with our customer Henry Cripps and his establishment The White Oak in Cookham we provided the wines for the evening dinner but more on that later. The morning...
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Hyde de Villaine & Champagne Delamotte 2002

As expected it didn’t prove the toughest sell looking for forty people to join us at the Devonshire Terrace restaurant and sample the new vintages of both Champagne House Delamotte and the Hyde de Villaine portfolio from California, a recent addition to Corney and Barrow’s range.  Having been recently refurbished...
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Franchetti – A Tasting to Remember

I’m certainly not the first at C&B to blog about Andrea Franchetti’s wines – see Passopisciaro archive – but I’m doing so with as much enthusiasm, if not quite as much eloquence, as Will and Davina have in the past.   I remember last year’s tasting at C&B HQ with the man...
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