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Author Archives: Mark Andrew
The Wines of Armand Rousseau – Our Tasting Written Up
Just a quick note to draw your attention to Wine Anorak, where Jamie Goode has a very nice write-up of our vertical tasting of the great Armand Rousseau’s Burgundies. Now that was a great evening. If you like the sound of it, keep an eye out in the next few weeks for a brand new [...]
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The Real Wine Fair – Get Your Tickets Now
The inaugural Real Wine Fair is a wine tasting event, celebrating skilled individuals who work organically or biodynamically in the vineyards and winery. Over 170 growers and winemakers will be presenting over 600 wines, made as naturally as possible. Visitors to The Real Wine Fair can meet and talk to the winegrowers, whilst having the [...]
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Serious vintage Champagne
The first tasting of the new year was a look at some old Champagne – none of the ten wines were younger than 1990 and the oldest dated back to 1976. The purpose was to look at the prestigious cuvées of the top houses rather than any old bubbly so, although there were a few [...]
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2010 – The Annual
This time last year I was joyously reporting a record breaking year for Roberson Wine in 2009, so I wont begin by telling you that 2010 was three times as successful. (But it was!) Anyway, enough bragging. What really matters is that 2010 was very rewarding from a wine perspective and, as ever, we had [...]
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Musings on Cru Beaujolais…
When Philip the Bold banished the “disloyal Gamay” from the vineyards of Burgundy in the 14th century for “very great and horrible harshness”, he was probably unaware that to the south of the Côte d’Or was an ideal home for this renegade grape variety. Gamay proved to be a perfect match with the granite soils [...]
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Burgundy 2009
Noise and hype about Burgundy vintages never, thank God, reaches the crescendo heard over in Bordeaux and while this was true again in 2009, that doesn’t mean there is a lack of excitement for the latest releases from Burgundy’s Côte d’Or. Quite the contrary, in fact, as there is a buzz surrounding the vintage that [...]
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Grange des Peres
Domaine de la Grange des Peres (or ‘barn of fathers’) is everything a ‘cult’ wine should be. Tiny but meticulous production, a superbly talented winemaker, wonderful terroir and a baying mob of customers desperate to get their hands on a bottle. This is the land that marketing forgot – no fancy labels, no export manager, [...]
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Roberson wins London Wine Merchant of the Year!
It’s been a good few years for Roberson Wine and we have been fortunate enough to be voted as ‘London Wine Merchant of the Year’ at both the International Wine Challenge (IWC) and the Drinks Business awards in the last couple of years. The third and arguably most prestigious of the industry gongs was the [...]
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Le Soula and their liquid bread
We get so many wine makers visiting us at Roberson that it is easy to get blasé about what is actually a great part of our job. Every now and again someone shows up (with their importer in tow, of course) that makes us realise how lucky we are. Today was one of those days [...]
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Arnot-Roberts (California, U.S.A.) – An Excerpt from April’s Wine Club Brochure
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