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Category Archives: Tastings
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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The Wines of Pomerol with Neal Martin
Last night, we were thrilled to have long-time friend of Roberson, Neal Martin, guest-hosting a tasting looking at the wines of Pomerol. From the early days of wine-journal.com through his superb work on the Wine Advocate to his forthcoming book on the wines of the region, we have long been fans of his work and [...]
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High Steaks Blind Tasting
Forget Henley, Goodwood, Polo and the rest of the so-called ‘Season’. Saturday evening saw the summer’s most exclusive and highly anticipated event, The Roberson Saturday Steak Night.
Firstly our hats must be removed for chef Ben Greene who cooked up a storm. A storm of chips and steak. Sourced from Barons Court’s HG Walter, an organic, [...]
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Languedoc & Roussillon Top 40
After years in the vinous wilderness, Languedoc & Roussillon have reinvented themselves in the past decade, transforming the reputation of Southern French winemaking from biggest contributor to Europe’s wine lake to the most exciting place in the world to be making wine. There’s more about that in this month’s newsletter, but [...]
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The Wines of Bruno Giacosa
We were very privileged to have Bruna, the daughter of Bruno Giacosa, the ‘professor’ of Nebbiolo in a while back to present the latest releases from the hallowed estate.
We started off with the 2004 Spumante, a wine first made in 1983. 100% Pinot Noir purchased from a single grower, this is interestingly enough one of [...]
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Neal Martin talks about our 1982 Bordeaux Tasting
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1982 Bordeaux Horizontal – The Review
So, how were the wines? Well we approached them in four flights and here is what I made of them.
Flight one: Vray Croix de Gay, Ormes de Pez and Meyney
The first flight was of three relatively modest wines, one Pomerol and two Cru Bourgeois properties from St Estephe.
We started with VCdG [...]
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1982 Bordeaux
In anticipation of our horizontal tasting of 1982 Bordeaux tonight, Mark shares his thoughts on the vintage and that man Parker.
1982 is often spoken about in the same breath as other great 20th century vintages such as ‘29, ‘45, ‘47, ‘59 and ‘61 – another of those candidates for ‘vintage of the century’ that come [...]
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2009 – The Annual
The dust is yet to settle, but it is already apparent that 2009 was the most successful year (and Christmas trading period) to date for the team at Roberson Wine. Obviously we are all delighted, especially as this time last year it was nigh on impossible to find anyone that was feeling positive about life [...]
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Dom Perignon 2003