Dinners & Tastings Archive

A great array of de Vogüé

In mid-April I was very excited to go to Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé dinner hosted at the Saddlers' Hall, London.  It is not a venue I knew before but is a good setting for 100 or so people, a nice atmosphere and an intimate enough feel. To get things going...
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Episode 6 – Christian Moueix

Episode 6 - Christian Moueix Christian Moueix at home with a general and, as always, honest appraisal of 2011 Bordeaux. Interviewer: Adam Brett-Smith, C&B Managing Director Camera man: Graham Moss, C&B Sales Team Location: Bordeaux Part 1: Part 2: ...
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Bastien Tardieu drops into Hong Kong to meet the Team

2010 a great vintage……. Chateau Lafite 2010:  Production around 15,000-20,000 cases; Release price approx. £12,000 cs/12* Côte Rotie Tardieu-Laurent 2010:  Production around 400 cases; Release price (and the only price) @ £430 cs/12 *  Apologies for the vulgar attention grabbing (and somewhat simplified) headlines but I hoped to get your attention? Still reading right?!...
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Cigars, Wine & Photography all in a Nobleman’s House

Last night was a truly memorable evening at a wonderful location - The House of the Nobleman - in which there is strikingly excellent Gallery space which amongst others currently houses several photographs from the renowned photographer Alistair Morrison. Yesterday was all about Cigars, Wine, Cigar people & photography. Alistair...
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Wines of the World- A Tasting Event at The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

Perhaps one of the greatest things about living and working in London is that there always seems to be something new to discover about it.  I’ve walked past the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s building many times (right next door, as it is, to the Royal Albert Hall) but confess...
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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2009 – A Tasting to remember

Just before the snow fell, Corney & Barrow held a tasting to launch the 2009 vintage from a small family owned winery that produces around 800 of the 46,000,000 hectolitres of wine made in France. They concentrate on one grape variety and insist on releasing their wines one year later...
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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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Several bottles at Planet of the Grapes

Last week we had two colleagues over from the Hong Office - Erica and Huge. We decide on a meal out on the Tuesday and headed off to Planet of the Grapes in Bow Lane near mansion house tube. It is a cracking spot and they allowed us to take...
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On my table over Christmas Dinner

Everyone in the wine industry spends an inordinate amount of time deciding which bottles make it onto the table for Christmas dinner. The murmured query “Christmas wines?” in our office means you can write off the next hour to heated discussion. If we were US Senators it would be our...
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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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