17 August We feel you deserve a change from the Argentine vine-nuzzling piglets that adorned this article for the last five weeks. Richard took this picture of lab samples of young wines in Burgundy last month. Alas, after a series of small harvests, the 2016 crop there is likely to be shrunk by frost, in some cases very seriously. Burgundy prices continue their ascent. Our series of assemblages (the expanded Burgundy one was republished on 12 August) continues for the rest of this month.
5 July We expect to have published a total of 23 assemblages of the team's tasting notes by the end of August, at a rate of about two a week from now on. Here is a guide to those that have already been published, most recent at the top.
Greek assemblage 1 September
New Zealand assemblage 30 August
East of Venice 25 August
South African assemblage 23 August
Sweet and strong assemblage 18 August
Rhône assemblage 16 August
North American assemblage 11 August
Rest of Italy assemblage 9 August
Rest of France assemblage 4 August
Australian assemblage 2 August
Bordeaux assemblage 28 July
German, Austrian and Swiss assemblage 26 July
Piemonte assemblage 21 July
Spanish assemblage 19 July
Sparkling assemblage 14 July
Loire assemblage 11 July
Tuscan assemblage 7 July
South American assemblage 5 July
Portuguese assemblage 29 June
Languedoc-Roussillon assemblage 22 June
English assemblage 8 June
Rosé assemblage 12 May
Burgundy assemblage 4 April (republished 12 August)