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2011 red Burgundy from Clark Foyster Wines
Read this post on Elitistreview - 2011 red Burgundy from Clark Foyster WinesClark Foyster Wines 2011 red Burgundy tasting was my favourite event of the London 2011 Burgundy en primeur week. They have a...
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2011 red Burgundy tasting from Howard Ripley
Read this post on Elitistreview - 2011 red Burgundy tasting from Howard RipleyHoward Ripley’s 2011 red Burgundy tasting was an excellent event. A broad range of producers covering a good assortment of...
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Haynes Hanson and Clark 2011 red Burgundy tasting
Read this post on Elitistreview - Haynes Hanson and Clark 2011 red Burgundy tastingThe Haynes Hanson and Clark 2001 red Burgundy tasting was another enjoyable and thought provoking event. I didn’t try...
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Savigny sanity strategies
Read this post on Elitistreview - Savigny sanity strategiesLong time readers will know the 24th of January is when I hide most of the day in bed and write a miserable tasting note that wouldn’t fool a...
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Fine wine frolics at Ben’s Canteen
Read this post on Elitistreview - Fine wine frolics at Ben’s CanteenI hope you will forgive me if this is not my longest or most coherent article, things got a bit quaquaversal in the early hours of...
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Extreme elegance
Continuing my report on when Mr Greg came for lunch I’ll tell you about a couple of stunners. Our main course was a leg of Oxford Sandy and Black pork from Beechcroft Direct whose pigs have provided...
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Dinner
The other day I had one of the greatest meals of my life. A dinner marked by profundity of flavour in food and wine. If I may, I will enlighten you about the three core ingredients that made it such a...
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Please, be gentle with me…
My exhortation in the title is both a reference to how I remember this wine caressing me on my last taste of it and also a plea regarding the hyper-critical faculties I know Elitistreview readers...
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40th birthday wine poll
Given my youthful visage and playful attitude you may be surprised I was born almost forty years ago; my birthday party is in November. It’ll be a quiet little affair with a few select friends whom I...
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2009 Burgundy is SO lovely
This bottle was sent to me by my lovely friend Sean who felt I needed cheering up when I was psychotic, depressed and suicidal a month or so back. What he didn’t know was the one of the drugs I was...
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Earthy and meaty
Domaine Arlaud wines were a stunning success at my third birthday party. Now I cannot deny I may have formed this opinion because I drank an awful lot of the two Grand Cru magnums going around, but I’m...
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2012 red Burgundy at Clark Foyster Wines, the best of the best
2012 red Burgundy is excellent. A lot of wines are probably truly great. However, the appalling weather conditions during the growing season mean that the volumes of these complex, structured, intense...
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Drouhin Morey Clos Sorbe, have they always been this good?
One of the things about knowing lots of growers in Burgundy is one can get a little sniffy about the negociants. You start thinking things like, without direct control in the vineyards they cannot keep...
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Quickie: Domaine Arlaud Cremant de Bourgogne
Cremant de Bourgogne is invariably consumed by Germans and Dutch. Since the Germans all have beards and identify themselves as ‘gender-fluid pansexual furry’ and the Dutch are all monomaniacal about...
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Live in the moment
The supreme aesthetic experience is something that is sadly meaningless to a large proportion of the population. Sad it is because the visceral, emotional, intellectual thrills that can penetrate your...
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Elitistreview is nine!
Elitistreview is nine years old today. There has been sadness, joy, ecstasy, psychosis, reports from the loony bin and one hell of a lot of Burgundy. I started off with a note on a Burgundy from a very...
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Henri Jouan Clos-Saint-Denis Grand Cru 2012
On Friday night we had a little dinner party with our friend Christian who had come all the way from Switzerland to see us (possibly). We drank many really delicious wines and one that was probably the...
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I am still alive, not so this wine
I must start with an apology. I apologise for not writing any Elitistreview posts for far too long; unsurprisingly I have an excuse. Two months ago I had a fit and collapsed into a quivering heap on...
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Elitistreview – one decade on
Today marks a decade of this illustrious organ. Wow! During that time I have posted 1,431 articles, which is an average of 2.8 per week. Last year or so might have brought down that average, but never...
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Super squirrel Vosne
Confuron-Gindre are one of my newer discoveries – and what a discovery they are! I have not had a bad wine from them. Even their Bourgogne Rouge is delicious (when you have it at an en primeur tasting,...
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