September 5, 2011

Tenuta di Trinoro In The Press

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Tenuta di Trinoro 2009 In the Press  Reviewed by Antonio Galloni, eRobertParker.com  “Andrea Franchetti’s 2009s are stellar. The wines show gorgeous, expressive fruit with less of the extreme ripeness and heaviness of past years. In most years Franchetti picks extremely late, but in 2009 the vines reached full phenolic ripeness earlier than...
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September 5, 2011

Sir Clive Woodward Celebrity Golf Day

wooden-spoon

Corney & Barrow were pleased to support this event for the Wooden Spoon charity, the children’s charity of Rugby, at Lambourne Golf Club. Along with our customer Henry Cripps and his establishment The White Oak in Cookham we provided the wines for the evening dinner but more on that later. The morning...
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August 24, 2011

Corney & Barrow In the Press

In-the-Press

   The top 10 at Corney & Barrow  18 Aug 2011 by Richard Hemming, JancisRobinson.com Corney & Barrow very kindly offered subscribers to this site some free tickets to their summer tasting in June. They didn't come without a catch, however, since I asked the lucky few to rank and score their top...
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August 9, 2011

Hyde de Villaine & Champagne Delamotte 2002

Hdv Wines

As expected it didn’t prove the toughest sell looking for forty people to join us at the Devonshire Terrace restaurant and sample the new vintages of both Champagne House Delamotte and the Hyde de Villaine portfolio from California, a recent addition to Corney and Barrow’s range.  Having been recently refurbished...
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August 4, 2011

Franchetti – A Tasting to Remember

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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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August 1, 2011

Director’s Top Tipple – Seafood Linguine Recipe

Seafood Linguine

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...
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July 22, 2011

Burgundy through the Eyes of Olivier Leflaive

Olivier Leflaive

An insiders view into Burgundy, as explained by a leading Burgundy producer Olivier Leflaive: For more information about Olivier Leflaive and to view available wines from this producer, please click here. Video Source:  Tara O'Leary, www.winepassionista.com...
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July 22, 2011

Santini at the Top of his Game

Santini Wines

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...
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July 12, 2011

C&B Expedition to Rhône

View from Domaine Charvin

The metallic tone of my alarm clock rang at 3.30am to awake me from my slumber.  Usually a start this early would make me incredibly grumpy indeed (as colleagues at C&B would attest to) but this day was different.  Our destination was Marseille and more specifically the Rhône and our...
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June 24, 2011

Corney & Barrow’s First Summer Tasting A Big Hit…

Oxo-Tower-Corney-&-Barrow-Guests

We can comfortably say that Corney & Barrow’s first Summer Tasting at the Oxo Tower was a tremendous success. The doors for our private customers opened at 5pm where upon arrival you would immediately find Audrey Campos from Champagne Delamotte showcasing the launch of their spectacular 2002 vintage. A delightful...
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