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Category Archives: General Musings
A Fine Wine Revolution
Well, finally.
After years, and I mean years, of talking, plans, sketches and delays, the refit of the fine wine area is complete. Those of you who are regulars will know well the wild-west style wine cage that we have had lurking menacingly at the back of our Kensington High Street Shop for the last two [...]
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Some thoughts on Natural Wines
On Tuesday, wine importer Caves des Pyrene, held a tasting in Central London. It was a bit of a chaotic affair, just a bar full of shifty looking French folk, a table and twenty or so wines arranged in tasting order. Like Peter Crouch, my long limbs can come in handy at times and I [...]
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Ancient Greek, Glyndebourne and 2010 Bordeaux
Having missed out on the Ancient Greek GCSE at my local state school and still absolutely unmoved by opera, I was a little non-plussed when a customer insisted I take a look at his programme from 1939.
It was 7:00, I had to key in the latest round of Champagne price increases and well, I was [...]
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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 a lot [...]
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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 [...]
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Cliff Releases Christmas Single – Free Download Available
With Christmas fast approaching and the whole world wondering which X-Factor contender will make it to number one, it’s as well to remind ourselves that there are alternatives to today’s generic pop stars out there. One such artist is Mr Cliff Roberson himself, who this year has released a rap based on his life in [...]
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The Grande and the Good