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I was recently chatting with Jonny Leadley at Discovery Wines and he told me that he had, for Christmas, a bottle of 1997 Beringer Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. He rated it as one of the most memorable experiences during his career ...

If you can feel something very special and unexpected it certainly helps on our journey during these challenging times. I will share a few very recent arrivals with you that may just do this. On January 2 we finally took a chance and invited two goo...

I would guess it was about seven years ago that The Royal Gazette approached me with the idea of turning Burrows Lightbourn Ltd's twice monthly advertisement into a weekly “infomercial” that would discuss wine matters of interest. I suggested that w...

In the galactic Klingon language of Star Trek an appropriate toast may have been for 2021 yIn DaSIQjaj, or for those not fluent with it, “may you endure life”. With our Christmas dinner downsized to my dear wife and myself (and a 100 Parker point 199...

I would like to narrow the wine selection down to three types to have with roast turkey: champagne, chardonnay and pinot noir. The house of Piper-Heidsieck has cropped up a few times in my forty-five years in the trade and very recently Burrows Ligh...

A few days ago, I was out at the end of Spanish Point Park watching the setting sun and I noticed a couple sitting on the grass at the water’s edge. They were sharing a bottle of bubbly that they were pouring into slender, flute shaped glasses. Altho...

With wines that have all arrived here quite recently, I would like to take you for a trip around the world of wine. We will lead of with the rare blaufrankisch grape cultivated by the Jermann family in Italy for over 200 years. We have their 2016 Bla...

As today’s wines all rate over 90 points they would all win gold medals in a wine competition. Robert Parker introduced the 100-point system in his Wine Advocate that he launched in 1978; points are given for colour and looks, aroma and bouquet, fla...

A vertical tasting is where you compare the same wine, but from different years. A horizontal tasting consists of wines from the same year, the same area, grape variety and price range. Please do not confuse with the position of the taster. It is no...

In our home we always make sure that we serve wines from North America on Thanksgiving Day. While quite a few new wines have arrived from around the world over the past year, here are a few from the USA. Chehalem that translates from the language of ...