Here an exclusive news report I did on 5 January 2014. I am holding a bottle of wine with my left hand behind my back.

UPDATE! Dinners to include tastings of Bordeaux 2010 barrel samples from both the Left and Right Banks: Léoville Poyferré and Clos Fourtet! I will be co-hosting two wine dinners in Germany – at the Maingau Hotel in Frankfurt on 24 March and at the Sankt Moritz Restaurant in Berlin on 25 March – with Matthieu […]

Social marketing: what wineries need to do and what bloggers are already doing A form of this article has been published recently in Meiningers Wine Business International Over lunch in early September in Bordeaux, Taiwan importer Steven Fang of Château Wine & Spirit Co., Ltd. was not impressed with the intention of Château Léoville Poyferre […]

Just about to post notes on Burgundy 2009 and – for some early pre malolactic samples – 2010. But before this, an Israeli intermezzo, brought to you from snowy Berlin. On 2 December 2010 at the famous Berlin wine bar Rutz Weinbar, thanks to Martin Zwick who invited me there to taste some top wines […]

UPDATED! Three winemakers dinners in three top German restaurants in Berlin, Frankfurt and Baden Baden are scheduled on 11, 12 and 13 November, where I will co-host with the Châteaux representatives. Gildas d’Ollone, general director of the famous Pichon Comtesse estate in Pauillac and Jean-Bernard Grenié, co-owner of the famous St Emilion estate, Château Angélus, […]

After a month in Prague where I did a TEFL certification course and tasted little wine – more often one-euro bottles of Pilsner Urquell – I will be heading to Bordeaux to re-taste some 2009s and work on a couple of articles on blogging and wine and on the Boissenot father-and-son winemaking team. Will also […]

Below a news brief just published today (30 July) on decanter.com. I would like to add some input from Pascal Delbeck, winemaker at Tour du Pas St Georges, near St Emilion, who said that if August is hot and dry, there could be a risk of heat stress and a delayed harvest because of that. […]

By Panos Kakaviatos In two tweets this week, the influential American wine critic Robert Parker said ‘the Bordelais are indeed killing the golden goose’ and ‘the ridiculous and painfully slow release of prices for the 2009s is both stupid and arrogant, moreover… expect sticker shock… dumb and dumber.’ Amidst mounting criticism that Bordeaux 2009 prices […]

Check out the video report from the UK’s excellent daily newspaper The Guardian. They certainly picked some posh châteaux to feature: Mouton, Lafite, Ducru Beaucaillou and Lynch Bages… Interesting comments on the market too. Bordeaux 2009: the best wine of a generation?