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Abandoning Aquitaine: Burgundy is the new Claret

by WinechapNYC on May 16, 2012

in Vintellect

London loves business - Abandoning Aquitaine Everyone who likes to think they know about wine concurs that “new” Spain is the new Portugal (which was, of course, the new Austria a couple of years ago), or at least accepts that the point is arguable at dinner parties with those who might care. More of this at a future date – in case you are not convinced. Click on, dear reader…

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#TheWorlds50Best – Top ten Tweets

May 1, 2012 Aftermath
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It was The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards at The Guildhall on Monday night – and if Observer Food Monthly awards are Cannes then #The50Best is definitely the Oscars of the food world. This was a particularly special night as it’s the event’s 10th anniversary and 47 of the top 50 chefs were in town [...]

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Fishy business

April 11, 2012 Vintellect
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Not a reference to Bordeaux En Primeur week – but a far more useful link to WineChap’s MarchLondonLovesBusiness column that we forgot about. Whilst a few hundred journalists and merchants sweat tweedily around the Chateaux of the Medoc and Right Bank trying to sound enthusiastic about the rare gems of a distinctly average vintage or/and [...]

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A great Tuscan excursion with MW Clive Barlow

March 15, 2012 travel
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WineChap has had the pleasure of Master of Wine Clive’s company in Provence for Chene Bleu’s Extreme Wine tour and now Clive is leading a great tour around some of Tuscany’s top vineyards in conjunction with Terres d’Exception.

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Negotiating The Wine List with Thierry Tomasin

March 1, 2012 Vintellect
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Angelus has long been one of WineChap’s favourite London restaurants, and Thierry Tomasin and his team have reciprocally been staunch supporters of ours: – Always sending updated winelists and letting us host dinners in their charming private dining room, so we are delighted to promote their initiatives whenever possible (Other establishments – please note how [...]

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Hot Dinners wine case

February 24, 2012 Vintellect
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Restaurants are where we first appreciate many memorable, compelling wines and yet so often we do not bother to record what they were. The number of times I have heard someone say ‘I tried this great wine at… (such and such restaurant)…’ and when asked what it was ‘I can’t remember… but think it was [...]

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Bring a bottle

February 17, 2012 Vintellect
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After a miserable month of supposed abstinence and detoxing, people are skulking back in to London’s restaurants, or drinks cabinets, replenished after the festive drinks party and inviting friends round to sample dishes plucked from one of their Christmas present cookbooks.

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Matching your wedding wines

February 14, 2012 Vintellect
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Your wedding day is meant to be one of the happiest and romantic of your life, and yet the months/weeks/days and hours leading up to “I do” can be amongst the most hair wrenching, buttock clenchingly stressful you are ever likely to know.

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WineChap Tastings in the News

February 6, 2012 Aftermath
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Write-ups of two of our latest Tasting series have featured recently; ‘Toast the Oyster’ and ‘Grape vs Grain’.

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