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Bibendum Times has teamed up with Argento wines to offer a fantastic 5 night trip for 2 people to see The Real Argentina. All you have to do is get writing / snapping / filming and then send us the results. With a bit of luck you could be jetting off to Buenos Aires and Mendoza!
How to win
The winner will be the person who comes …
By EatLikeaGirl, http://eatlikeagirl.com/
Chinese New Year 2008 - London
Chinese New Year. Now that’s my kind of New Year. Celebrated for 2 weeks and centred on food, bright colours, parades packed with drama, and people having fun. I have always had an affection for it. …
By Luke Tyler
Riesling grapes
Vintage is the most exciting time of year in a winery and the buzz around the d’Arenberg cellars in 2010 is electric. Healthy winter and spring rains set up the vines well with good canopies. A heat spell in November prevented a lot of Grenache from setting, but did not harm any other varieties. There was …
By Ben Collins
Chateau Montrose
Montrose was bought by Martin Bouygues – a concrete tycoon who seems to be rebuilding the entire place – there are even more cranes here than at Cheval Blanc. They own also own another St Estephe chateau, Ch Tronquoy-Lalande. I am impressed with T-L. It has lost its rough edges and has lovely soft tannins. We …
By Ben Collins
Simon Farr and Michael Saunders
A big vintage in Bordeaux means the big guns get wheeled out, so I am here in Bordeaux with Bibendum big wigs Simon Farr and Michael Saunders rather than my usual Kiwi chauffeur. We are on a recce to round up new Chateaux for Bibendum’s mega Bordeaux tasting in …
Bu Gal Zohar
Harvest at Grover
Wine is all about change. Like any worthy thing in life it is dynamic and never ceases to surprise. The bottles that lie in our cellars provide the obvious example. Wine ageing is beautiful yet mostly mysterious. We know it happens but we’re not entirely sure why, how …
By Rebecca Gibb, http://www.rebeccagibb.com/
Vineyards looking over Cape Town
South Africa is now selling more wine in the UK than France. You would have got very long odds for that happening if you’d placed a bet 15 years ago.
The latest Nielsen stats put three New World countries on the UK’s best-selling rostrum: Australia, the US (well, California) …
By Dwayne Perreault, http://bordoverview.blogspot.com/
The Mouton & friends
Château Mouton Rothschild is one of the world’s most prized wines and this is reflected in its price which, depending on the vintage, can easily run into hundreds or even thousands of euros per bottle. To put it simply, it’s a bit out of my price range. The best I could hope for would …
By Juel Mahoney, http://www.winewomansong.co.uk/
The real stuff in its lavender box
Yes, it must be a half-bottle. Of course, it would be more practical, economical and sensible to buy a full bottle. But don’t be ridiculous. This is my wish list, and it really is not the moment to …
My last post briefly mentioned André Simon, one of the great wine writers of the 20th Century. Born in 1877 in a small street “between Brasserie Lipp and Les Deux Magots” in Paris, Simon was a wine merchant, historian, journalist and bon viveur. A few weeks ago I stumbled across his “The Art of Good Living” in a second hand book shop. The 1951 …
