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Côte d'Or 2024 – after the misery, an overview
Matthew Hayes
Friday 19 December 2025
• 1 min read
Wine news in 5
Friuli floods, Ste Michelle sold, UK duty hike, French Bloom buys vineyard, LVMH strikes
Plus potential fraud in Vinho Verde, China’s recognition of Burgundy appellations, and the campaign for protected land in Australia’s Barossa. Above, Bibendum’s sobering calculation on the effect of UK excise...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 13 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Hospices de Beaune wine auction 2025
Andy Howard MW
Wednesday 3 December 2025
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This is the sort of article I hate writing. It seems quite wrong to me that a woman as strong...
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4 Nov update – I saw Jean-Marc Roulot yesterday who told me that apparently Hubert died at dinner in Alsace...
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This article is also published by the Financial Times. Roland Lavantureux runs a small domaine in Chablis, not just growing...
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Robert Chevillon is one of the most reliable names in Burgundy. The Chevillon table at any tasting is always surrounded...
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Québecois Thomas Bachelder made some pretty good wines at Lemelson in Oregon and was then lured back to Ontario to...
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Here in the western Languedoc, much of the talk is about hail, the hail that on Sunday night wiped out...
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In the wake of the third terrible hailstorm in Burgundy in three years, and the remorseless upward spiral of burgundy...
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