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Director’s Top Tipple – Seafood Linguine Recipe
I am not sure whether to be flattered or not that I was the first of the Directors to be asked to write a piece for the blog about what I cook and eat at the weekend. Being the close to spherical shape that I am, I should hardly be...
Read More Santini at the Top of his Game
After just a couple of days in the company, I found myself invited into the C & B tasting room to sample a range of wines from Enrico Santini. With a particular interest in Italian wines, this was a great opportunity to develop that passion as well as dip my...
Read More Dragons and Delamotte…….Paddles Up!
The Tuen Ng Festival aka Dragon Boat Day….is for most in this part of the world a sleepy bank holiday. A chance to over indulge all weekend. Wrap gifts of Château Beychevelle etc. Well not for one of the newest arrival’s to the HK office! Ten weeks previously I had...
Read More Dinner with Roberto Conterno in Piedmont
Last Thursday morning whilst still a little tired from the wonderful Clos de Tart dinner, Adam (MD), Alison (Buyer) and myself met up at Gatwick for the flight to Torino. To say I was a little excited about this trip would be an understatement of the year as I am...
Read More ‘Magnum’ night at Zucca
The idea for a private sales team dinner was, like most great ideas, born in the pub. The theme was Magnums (to be served blind) and they were not allowed to be from our own stocks. There was only one venue Mr Hargrove’s favourite restaurant – Zucca, www.zuccalondon.com.
We started with...
Read More “We are forbidden to create” François Mitjavile – Tertre Roteboeuf & Roc de Cambes
The C & B pilgrimage from Domaine de l’Aurage to Tertre Roteboeuf, (owned by his father, François Mitjavile) just down the road in Saint-Emilion took no time at all.
We were warmly greeted by François, escorted to the back gardens of the house and perched carefully on a wall with a dangerously...
Read More C & B descend on Bordeaux for a very spoiling 48 hours…
21 of of the C & B sales and Marketing team gathered from far & wide, early on Monday morning destined to meet some of the great and the good of Bordeaux. We boarded a Bordeaux-bound plane at the crack of dawn, full of anticipation - wondering what to expect...
Read More 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...
Read More 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...
Read More 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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