THE BEST WINE IN THE WORLD
The Domaine Romanée-Conti is the most rarefied and expensive wine in the world, with vintages that need decades to mature. At a tasting for the 2006 DRCs, Bruce Palling hears one vintage intone “Leave me alone you fool--don’t you know I am trying to sleep?” ... read more »
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GETS BETTER WITH AGE | February 28th 2008
At a tasting of Graves wines, Bruce Palling considers the region's smoky, tarry, tobacco-infused flavours. This autumnal taste only becomes apparent once the wine is around 15 years old. Start buying whatever you can from 2005 ...
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read more »WHAT TO READ ABOUT WINE
BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED | February 5th 2008
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Most wine lists are content to bamboozle customers, writes Bruce Palling. A crisp glass of Chablis in hand ("the most compelling white wine of all"), he scans his book shelf and offers some tips on whom he reads and trusts ...
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read more »WINE AND ME (2): CASE HISTORIES
BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED | January 21st 2008
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In the second part of his wine-drinking memoir (see part one here), Bruce follows his palate from Saigon to London by way of Salisbury, Rhodesia, and declares the present time a golden age for claret ...
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read more »FIVE OUT OF FIVE FOR LE CINQ
BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED | December 4th 2007
Bruce goes for a three-wine, four-hour, nine-course feast at the George V, and declares it his favourite destination in Paris, but only after narrowly surviving an ambush from a rogue andouillette along the way ...
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CLAUDIA SCHIFFER, TRUDIE STYLER, AND ME
BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED | November 28th 2007
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Bruce applauds Claudia Schiffer's taste in luxury, has a few reservations about Trudie Styler's, and finds the world's great chefs to be a pretty drab bunch when it comes to choosing their last suppers ...
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A BRILLIANCE OF BURGUNDIES
AND AN AFTERTASTE YOU COULD SPREAD ON A BISCUIT
Bruce Palling goes bananas for top Burgundy, uncorks a few metaphors, and corrects those less discerning wine-drinkers who might have been careless enough to think of Burgundy as merely a Mozart to Bordeaux's Bach ...
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