Food & Wine Archive

Meet our Italian Producers

We interviewed three of our Italian producers who visited London to showcase their wines at the Definitive Italian Tasting at Lord's. Giovanna – La Tunella Which of your wines are in currently your fridge at home? La Tunella Sauvignon Blanc. It is fresh, fruity and easy to drink. I also chill the Pinot...
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Friuli meets Japan

Food and wine pairings sometimes offer the most astonishing surprises.  On a brief trip to London this week, Giovanna, from our Friuli producer La Tunella,  joined us on Monday  at Tsuru Bankside one of  our  on-trade customers,  a new, modern and authentic Japanese restaurant  tucked  behind  Tate Modern  on the Southbank. With a welcome cooling breeze blowing our al fresco table and ...
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Moueix Monday……….

It was a Moueix Monday this week with the great man himself, Christian, in London for our Moueix Dinner at The Groucho Club. This was an evening as much about Moueix the merchant as Moueix the owner, and lets face it when you have Petrus, Trotanoy, Magdelaine, Hosanna etc in...
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Peter Sisseck @ 1 Lombard Street

Last week was a hell of a week with three dinners amongst the many releases and offers we were putting out at the minute. There was no doubt about the highlight though….the Sisseck tasting and dinner at 1 Lombard Street. The format of the evening was a relaxed walk around...
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A great meal……..14 bts of quality….well 13

Tuesday was UGC (Union de Grand Cru) day when the trade and press gathers to taste the recently bottle vintage in this case 2007. I felt the wines were better than I expected. My picks of the reds were Domaine de Chevalier, Gazin, La Lagune and Leoville Poyferre. The sweet whites were...
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Eradus…..Michiel in the rain

Yesterday was the first C&B Eradus BBQ with Michiel Eradus (http://www.eraduswines.co.nz/). We've worked with Michiel and his wines since 2002, the range has gradually grown from one Sauvignon Blanc. Now he does two Sauvignon Blancs, a Rose and a very impressive Pinot Noir with a nice "old school" style to...
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