Wine luminaries out in force as Pol Roger UK celebrates 21 years
Last week the good and the great gathered to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the founding of Pol Roger UK at Vintners' Hall.
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Last week the good and the great gathered to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the founding of Pol Roger UK at Vintners' Hall.
When will the New World stop being called the New World? Maybe when there is a New New World to take its place.
Philippe Dhalluin, co-managing Director of Mouton Rothschild, was at the two- Michelin-starred The Square restaurant last Monday to host a spectacular dinner featuring an array of vintages of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild for the customers of Bordeaux Index.
Last week I caught up with Jean-Charles Cazes who was in London to present his wines at the first of the Connaught's wine dinners.
At Decanter we've always worked on the principle that we wouldn't ask our readers to attend anything we wouldn't jump at the chance to attend ourselves.
Who thinks wine staff are intimidating? Amy Wislocki finds out why Majestic deserved its Decanter Wine Merchant of the Year award
After yesterday's drama of sky high prices at the Sotheby's Hong Kong auction, today's developments began to add some context to the numbers.
We had a feeling they were going to be big - but the numbers coming out of Hong Kong today would have raised even the most reserved of eyebrows.
Fusing the pop-up restaurant concept with its regular wine dinners, The Providores – the London restaurant co-owned by New Zealand executive chef Peter Gordon – relocated for one night from its Marylebone home to the Village Underground in Shoreditch for a feast of Pacific Rim fusion food matched with top Kiwi wines.
Yesterday, Benoît Gouez was in town to launch the new Grand Vintage, the hotly anticipated 2002. Before the official launch, he made a small detour to the Decanter office to give us a sneak preview of the 2002, along with a few special treats...
In the final dispatch from Argentina, Decanter's tastings director Christelle Guibert climbs 3000m to visit the highest vineyard in the world
Roberson wine merchant's vertical tasting of 10 Gaja Barbarescos was, as expected, a sell out; the wines ranging in age from 2006 back to a rare 1958 made by Angelo Gaja's father Giovanni.
It's mid afternoon and I'm being led into a secret part of the Gonzalez Byass cellars in Jerez by winemaker Antonio Flores.
Decanter took over Selfridges last night with the launch of its yearly tenure at the Wonder Bar.
Decanter is in Argentina for a week and a half of wine shows, tastings and winery visits. Here we catch up with Sarah Kemp on the final leg of the tour
Decanter is in Argentina for a week and a half of wine shows, tastings and winery visits. Here we catch up with Sarah Kemp and the team on their way to Chakana...
The Northern and Southern Rhone could be separate planets. As Marc Perrin explains, everything, from your football team to how you fry your onions, is different in the south.
Decanter's publishing director Sarah Kemp and consultant editor Steven Spurrier visit some of Argentina's most renowned fincas, meet some very large bulls and stay up far too late...
Decanter is in Argentina for a week and a half of wine shows, tastings and winery visits. Sarah Kemp, publishing director and Argentinian wine enthusiast, sent us this report
After all the jumping around in 2009 I never thought I’d be able to write these words with a straight face but all I can do is report what I hear: there’s some excitement in Bordeaux about the 2010 vintage.
It was a professional, polished affair, but then could one ever imagine a Manchester United-controlled press conference being anything but?
And so it begins. Barely two months after the much-anticipated release prices from the 2009 vintage, Bordeaux 2010 is almost upon us.
A busy week - lots of tastings, and lots of producers in town, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere.
So now we know what James Suckling's been up to since his bizarrre departure from Wine Spectator at the beginning of the summer.
The cork industry has just mounted a new campaign: I Love Natural Cork. This invites us to pledge to buy more wine sealed with natural cork stoppers.
Following the presentation ceremony at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, the full 2010 results are now available to view online.
Hopefully you'll have noticed we've had a bit of a redesign.