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May 2, 2008

Parker on ’05 and ’07

Robert Parker released his final in-bottle scores for the 2005 vintage today along with his barrel-tasting of the 2007 vintage…

April 29, 2008

It’s all gone quiet…

The last week has been one of relative quiet on the fine wine markets. Perhaps the fine wine trade has…

April 25, 2008

Neal gets high on 2007

Neal Martin's full 2007 Bordeaux scores have been released, with arguably the highest ratings from any major critic of the…

April 23, 2008

More on fine wine and Asia

As we highlighted in a previous post, the growing importance of Asia as a market for fine wine is currently…

April 18, 2008

Yquem vertical sells for £368,000

The 70-vintage vertical of legendary Sauternes Yquem (136 bottles in total) we mentioned earlier in the week sold for £368,000…

April 17, 2008

…and then there were nine

The number of perfect-scored 2005 Bordeaux increased from eight to nine today, following the release of the Wine Spectator score…

April 17, 2008

Jancis’s top ’07s

Jancis Robinson MW has released her full scores and commentary on the Bordeaux 2007 vintage. Her overall thoughts on the…

April 16, 2008

1998 Right Bank versus 2000

James Suckling recently celebrated 10-years of living in Tuscany and drunk a host of  wines from 1998 to celebrate. Stuck…

April 15, 2008

Auction prices moving upwards…

…according to Bloomberg, with prices reached at a recent sale at London's Sotheby's matching or exceeding those paid at a…

April 11, 2008

Jancis on Sauternes

Jancis Robinson MW's first report on the 2007 vintage has been released on her Purple Pages website. Her full vintage…