December's highlights on Purple Pages

December's most popular articles were (understandably) the Rhône en primeur tasting notes, as well as Jancis' festive annual round-ups. Plenty of other activity was going on, however. Here are a few clippings which you might have missed first time round.

STANDOUT STANDALONES - the best tasting notes uploaded in December, but not published in tasting articles.

• Jancis tasted a 1982 Pomerol that could almost have been Petrus, a celebratory 1940 Colheita port - and another one from 1961 - and shared a Riesling Kabinett 'to celebrate the end of a long day's work on our tasting notes database' with Julia...