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Hong Kong: the "velvet underground"

There is a common perception that Hong Kong is a Bordeaux only drinking town and that Burgundy (some DRC aside) is rarely seen yet alone uncorked

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Ch Lagrange 2008

Just a short one today. Ch Lagrange has been a great favourite of ours in recent vintages. The 2008 gets stunning notes from Neil Martin who now writes for Robert Parker

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Tom's Burgundian Christmas Fix

I am staying with my brother for Christmas this year so have no idea what he has planned. Hopefully I will get intructions to go to the cellar and crack whatever I desire.

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Tom's 40th Birthday Lunch

Lunch kicked off with the wrong bottle. Johnny had arranged for a bottle of Laurent Perrier 1990 which we only discovered having opened a brace of Louis Roederer Brut Premiers but we managed to find room for all three. The...

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Exclusive Rosé

Sacha Lichine, son of the famous Alexis Lichine, told me we should be stocking his Chateau d’Esclans Provence Rose, now the region’s most exclusive and expensive rose when I saw him at Vinexpo in Hong Kong.

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