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Hundreds of customers visited us at Lord’s Cricket Ground for Bibendum’s 8th Annual Tasting on June 5th, 2013. What was their verdict on the 2012 vintage? Here are some observations from behind the pouring table. By Juel Mahoney
It was a lovely sunny day to have a Bordeaux tasting at Lord’s Cricket Ground. After the fast and furious 2012 Bordeaux campaign it was wonderful to …
by Juel Mahoney
If Bordeaux is like the Hollywood of wine, during En Primeur week, the cellars are the sets. The tanks are shined to a mirror, the barrels are in perfect rows. After tasting the 2012 Chateau Palmer in their dramatic tasting room, Thomas Duroux excitedly whisked us away to show us around the new cellars. As one of the Fine Wine team’s favourite wines, we were …
by Juel Mahoney
After two days, our impressions of the left bank are very mixed. 2012 is not a uniformly good vintage for Pauillac, St-Julien, St-Estephe and Margaux. There are some good to very good wines but there are also some fiercely tannic, extracted and very difficult wines. As Ben Collins said on the way over the bridge to the right bank, …
by Juel Mahoney
We only have one CD in the car as we drive around the superstar chateaux on the left bank of Bordeaux: The Best of Rod Stewart. “It was only £2.50,” said Ben Collins, unwrapping it from its plastic, “No wonder went HMV bust.” We wondered how he could have paid so much – much as we wondered …
by Gareth Groves
According to the Chancellor, 10,000 pubs have closed in the last decade. Yesterday, George Osborne announced that he was going to help the industry by not only ending the beer duty escalator but cutting a whole penny off the current duty figure. He’s generous like that.
The policy strikes me as both positive and pointless.
‘Positive’ because ending any of the alcohol …
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