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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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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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Château Phélan Ségur at One Thirty-One

So it had been a year in the making and finally the day had come, for C&B to host, what can only described as Hong Kong’s “dinner of the year”; Thursday 3rd November saw the long awaited Ch. Phélan-Ségur dinner. We had the honour and pleasure of not only that...
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Hong Kong Annual Tasting – The Low Down

A week or so ago saw C&B's 3rd Annual Hong Kong tasting at the Shangri-La hotel in Admiralty.  Tickets had sold out well before the event itself and we had many more wines to show than ever before so hopes were high for a cracking evening.  A grand room was...
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An Enthused Tasting by Achaval-Ferrer’s Marcelo Victoria

Achaval-Ferrer’s Marcelo Victoria believes that a wine needs a back story. But it also needs someone to tell it and Marcelo Victoria can tell a story. He quickly transported us from our London offices to a plot of land at the end of a ‘two horses wide’ track in the...
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Dinner with New Zealand Producer Michiel Eradus

Some wine evenings seem to fit the wines like a glove. To me the wines of Marlborough family producer Eradus are about relentless quality but practiced in an effortless, unpretentious way, with charm and a lightness of touch. Certainly the dozen Corney & Barrow customers and staff who sat down...
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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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