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A number of people have asked why I did not go to Bordeaux this year to taste the 2013 vintage en primeur. There are two good reasons why I ought to have gone – as a number of my friends did. First, there’s the journalistic/intellectual angle. Surely I should have wanted to taste the wines for myself, especially […]
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bordeaux / Bordeaux 2013 / bordeaux futures / en primeur / en primeur 2013 April 11, 2014
READ MOREQ. What do the chateau owners of Bordeaux have in common with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey? A. Like him, they – or at least a fair number of them – fear and hate… Twitter. Until quite recently, the Bordelais made use of fairly straightforward lines of communication when they wanted to tell the […]
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Spot the odd man out: Château Latour, McDonalds, Nespresso and Hermes. All of these are luxuries (yes, even the burgers and the coffee if you use the dictionary definition of luxury as something that is “inessential but conducive to pleasure”), but three of the brand owners share a philosophy of how and where they like […]
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Once there was a sad little boy with a football but no one to play with. So, he went to the park with his ball and started kicking it around for a little while. Soon enough, a few other boys joined him and they all began to play a casual game. Some of the bigger […]