Will in London Archive

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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The Mitjaviles come to Town…

We've been dealing with François for over 20 years, and it has taken the last 12 of those to succeed in getting him and his delighful wife Miloute to come to London. The rough plan of attack was a tasting for "Team C&B" then a brief lunch and dinner with...
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Tweezers and velvet gloves… What makes wines from Comte Georges de Vogüé some of the finest in Burgundy (and therefore the world.)

Having arrived in London at midday on Thursday, after dinners in Edinburgh and Yorkshire the previous two nights, Jean-Luc Pépin from Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé was thrust straight into a tasting for the team here at 1TMS (see photo). This was a brilliant opportunity for the team to taste...
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2007 Bordeaux….what’s it all about?

With the dust settled on the Bordeaux 2009 campaign and the tumbleweed month of August out of the way we decided it would be a good idea to look at the ugly duckling vintage of the last 5 years – 2007. So why taste now? Well, firstly the wines are now...
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Bordeaux 09 – Sauternes Season

Last week was the second week of releases. It turns out to have been a Sauternes week. May be this will become a trend in years to come that the Sauterne release early - we'll just have to see. Either way I think it was sensible as they have filled...
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Last weeks Bordeaux 2009 activity, Olivier Leflaive 09′s and Edouard Moueix Tasting Dinner

  A quick update following the first week of releases (not many of them!). Last Tuesday saw d’Angludet out at £219, demand seemed steady, it’s a wine that tasted well this year and has a good following. The other three wines we offered last week were all quite different “beasts” –...
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Barolo 1971….

Last night was Barolo night at the Maltings Cafe http://www.maltingscafe.co.uk/ run by Sam Harris, Fraser and I met up with a whole collection (what is the collective adjective for wine merchants?) of guys from the trade to taste a selection of Barolo 1971's (& 3 Barbarescos) the tasting was hosted and organised by Eric...
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Clos de Tart 2008….

Having last tasted the Clos de Tart 2008 wines on Day 5 in Burgundy back in November it was great to get the chance this morning to taste the final assemblage, albeit not in final bottle as it will not be bottled unitl April/May. The release of the 2008 will...
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DRC 2007…..not bad for a Monday!

For the first time I can remember (and amazingly this was my 11th vintage) the DRC Press Tasting was on a Monday. As is traditional now the wines are shown to the press just after bottling, which was done in the last two months. The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti wines...
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two 2006′s in bottle

With the big tasting of 2006 Bordeaux in Southwold recently (it has been variously written up by Jancis Robinson and more) I thought it would be a good idea to serve - blind - two Bordeaux 2006's from two of our strong Bordeaux connections, there was another reason for one...
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