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A small but beautiful release from a domaine now widely considered among Burgundy’s elite. Despite the season’s challenges, 2021 is a year of terrific purity and transparency for Marc and Alexandre Bachelet. Although...

In this issue, Dan Keeling reports on a 25-vintage vertical of Romanée-Conti, organised by the domaine to mark the reprint of Richard Olney’s seminal book Romanée-Conti: The World’s Most Fabled Wine...

Rhône Valley 2021 and ’22 was a tale of two vintages. The former was a challenging season marked by frost, hail and cooler and wetter conditions. You had to be on top of your vineyard at short notice in 2021. Those willing to drop a...

The two vintages we offer today could hardly have been more different for Sophie Armenier and her son, Vincent Estevenin. The two Châteauneuf-du-Pape reds hail from 2021, a year when the notorious April frosts crept far south...

Rioja has long been blessed with exceptional vineyards. The problem has been knowing where to find them. French-born Tom Puyaubert has spent half his life living and working in Rioja. Earlier this year, he took us to visit three of his principal vineyards...

In the wine game, some tip-offs are a damp squib, others a slam dunk. This is a story of the latter. Like many contemporary Rías Baixas vineyard owners, Alberto Cabaco made his fortune in Galicia’s lucrative fishing industry. Retired and with no children...

We’re visiting our growers in Burgundy later this month, which will give us a clearer view of the style and quality of the 2022 vintage. For now, if our tasting of Verget’s wines in Australia last week may act as an early barometer, the omens look very good indeed...

Lovers of fine French Brandy will be familiar with Laballe’s fabulous collection of Armagnacs. An artisanal alternative to its more famous, big brand-dominated neighbour Cognac, vintage-dated Armagnac provides a historical snapshot of a season...

Bryan Martin is making the best wines of his career, and that’s saying something. For those new to the story, Bryan spent 15 years at Clonakilla, producing some of the most celebrated wines in Australia. Though he left the iconic estate...

When we spoke just before harvest, not even the woeful form of his beloved Olympique Lyonnais was enough to dampen Pierre-Marie Chermette’s enthusiasm for his domaine’s 2022 release. Chermette’s wines...

Already one of his region’s most progressive young growers, Olivier Klein continues to chip away at every stereotype levelled at the Côtes du Rhône appellation. Andrew Jefford once described a Réméjeanne red as tasting like...

In the words of Rob Mann, vintage 2022 has delivered a suite of “magical reds”. The Swinney site is primed for success in any case, and the combination of cool region and warm season played into the hands of the late-ripening Rhône...