Ever en Vogüé
Burgundy's de Vogüé estate has a long-established reputation for outstanding wines. STEVEN SPURRIER tastes some recent vintages
Decanter’s consultant editor Steven Spurrier joined the wine trade in London in 1964 and later moved to Paris where he bought a wine shop in 1971, and then opened L’Academie du Vin, France’s first private wine school in 1973. Spurrier staged the historic 1976 blind tasting between wines from California and France, the Judgment of Paris, and in the 1980s he wrote several wine books and created the Christie’s Wine Course with then senior wine director Michael Broadbent, a veteran Decanter columnist. In 1988 Spurrier returned to the UK to focus on writing and consultancy, with his clients including Singapore Airlines. He has won several awards, including Le Personalité de l’Année (oenology) 1988 for services to French wine and the Maestro Award in honour of California wine legend André Tchelistcheff (2011) and is president of the Circle of Wine Writers as well as founding the Wine Society of India. He also produced his own wine, Bride Valley Brut, from his vines in Dorset. Spurrier passed away in March 2021.
Burgundy's de Vogüé estate has a long-established reputation for outstanding wines. STEVEN SPURRIER tastes some recent vintages
Ardent supporters of the northern Rhône set up a vertical Cornas tasting in response to negative press. STEVEN SPURRIER took part and here shares his thoughts on the wines. As far as I know, nobody has bothered to come up with collective nouns for wines, so perhaps Decanter could request ideas from their readers and contributors. A Dance of Champagnes and An Inflation of Pomerols come to mind, but so does A Concentration of Cornas, for not only would this aptly describe the wine, but also the phalanx of bottles presented at Maceo, Mark Williamson's elegant restaurant in Paris, at a vertical Cornas tasting.
Premier cru and grand cru Chablis have the potential to age longer than any other white burgundy. STEVEN SPURRIER introduces the 1998 vintage
The hitherto little-known Coteaux Varois has lived in the shadow of Côtes de Provence. STEVEN SPURRIER tells the tale of the Cinderella region