With the UK wine market in the grip of Burgundy-fever, we caught up with Olivier Merlin and Dominique Lafon – the preeminent producers behind one of this year’s most exciting white wine stories: a rarely seen collaboration to create the stunning 2012 Pouilly-Fuissé Clos des Quarts While Olivier Merlin has been buying grapes from the […]

Accompanying the Fine Wine team as they tasted Burgundy 2012, new Berry Bros. & Rudd recruit Emily Miles found that getting to know this complex wine region was going to be a lifetime’s (extremely pleasurable) work As I spat my umpteenth mouthful of wine on the cellar floor, and shuffled my feet to coax reluctant […]

This “terrifically exciting” Burgundian producer is, according to Jasper Morris MW, making wines of pure class. With three Premiers Crus and seven Grands Crus to his (increasingly illustrious) name, Bernstein is a producer investors and Burgundy lovers should watch. Here, he talks a little about the philosophy that inspires his wine The process of making a […]

Much has changed since Simon Field MW, our Rhône buyer, first started to select the region’s wines for our list. Here he reports on 2012 – a vintage that’s more Audrey than Marilyn Monroe, he says. Our annual Autumnal pilgrimage to the Rhône Valley used to be quite a modest affair; we would arrive in […]