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New Flavours, New Recipes
February 20, 2026
Our first tranche of 2024 white Burgundies are starting to arrive. The headline news is that 2024 heralds a return to a more classic model of white Burgundy: delicious wines of modest alcohol, bright acidity and cool fruit flavours.
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February 17, 2026
I wonder if there is a smarter buy in Burgundy these days than Dureuil-Janthial? Vincent Dureuil is a superstar, albeit a very quiet one; he works his vines and keeps his head down. He does not talk much. Whenever his name comes up in conversation with other great growers, everyone nods and talks about how remarkable his wines are and how much they love them. Remember that old Coche quote?
February 09, 2026
For a traditional, old-school grower keen to avoid the limelight, Cavallotto are not doing a great job staying out of the headlines. Off the back of a run of stellar vintages, Barolo specialist Kerin O’Keefe awarded Cavallotto her Barolo Winery of 2025 accolade this year. O’Keefe’s peers at Vinous and The Wine Advocate have been equally effusive.
February 04, 2026
February 03, 2026
This exciting Jura collaboration between Beaune star David Croix and his friend (and local) Damien Courbet is certainly coming to the boil. In today’s email, we offer the pair’s first set of red wines; a Trousseau and Poulsard from vines sited close to Château-Chalon. We already know how good this project’s whites can be; it will come as little surprise that the reds follow suit.
January 28, 2026
As one of our insightful clients put it at a recent event in Melbourne with Tesseron’s Matthieu Chapoutier, “You can buy more famous names in Cognac, but you can’t buy better.” How true. In a story that mimics that of the top grower-producers in Champagne (vs. the Grandes Marques houses), the remarkable quality and distinctive, vinous style of Tesseron’s predominantly XO Cognacs have allowed this artisanal producer to carve out a niche among the giants of Cognac.