April 12th at the US Ambassador's- Fay Hartog Levin - Residence in The Hague featured the 2010 edition of the Dutch California Wine Tasting. Some 20 Dutch importers were showing their wines.

Impressions of the en primeur tastings for 2009 Bordeaux are starting to be published on the internet. As usual, Live-Ex provides an excellent source for comparison.

Since 2006, three winemakers from the Northern Rhône each produce a wine from the same vineyard and the same grape material. A great opportunity to discover their respective signatures.

Jancis Robinson's key note during the London International Wine Fair raised quite a bit of discussion on the net.

An earlier blog item already mentioned the scores for 2009 Bordeaux wines sipping in. Next to that, one of the great authorities on Bordeaux, Bill Blatch, produces his annual vintage report on Bordeaux' most recent harvest.

Everyone's doing it nowadays, so we really couldn't stay behind.This means Twittertweets from us as well.

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