Geoffrey Dean
#wine & #travel writer for @teamdb @thebuyer11 @harperswine @winepages @dailytelegraph; cricket writer @timessport. Judge for @WineChallenge & @DecanterAwards
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5 days ago |
the-buyer.net | Geoffrey Dean
It took John Chapman, managing director of the Oxford Wine Company, very little time to make his decision. The Château Bellini Rosé 2024 was just the Provençal label he was looking for this summer. In went the 500-strong order for the bottle he had taken back to the office after it was given to him at a special dinner on the Monday evening of the London Wine Fair.
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1 week ago |
the-buyer.net | Geoffrey Dean
Drinkers and importers on the lookout for a little-known gem of a wine-producing country should look no further than the Czech Republic. While reputed for the quality of its beer, Czechia, as it likes to be called, has a long history of wine-making dating back to Roman times, and produces a good deal of mid-market and premium labels from its 18,504 hectares under vine.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Ivo Tennant |Elizabeth Ammon |Geoffrey Dean
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1 month ago |
the-buyer.net | Geoffrey Dean
Like his celebrated father Peter, Hans Vinding-Diers is both a globe-trotting winemaker of note and natural story-teller. And his tale of how his newly-acquired Patagonian winery, Bodega Noemía, got a lucky break is a lovely one. It was the London Wine Fair of 2003, where he had brought with him from Argentina an unlabelled bottle of the first vintage (2001) of his flagship Malbec. It was a decision that had momentous consequences. "She had the dosh.
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1 month ago |
the-buyer.net | Geoffrey Dean
What was clear after the primeurs tasting of the 2024 vintage of the Grand Cercle des Vins de Bordeaux was that the wines are, as a general rule, light, fleshy and quite simple but with soft tannins, plenty of freshness and appealing fruit. Above all, and this will really please those who harp back to the days of lower alcohol levels, most of the wines were under 14% with some even under 13%. They are for early drinking, and should be competitively priced.
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I visited @HansVinding in #Patagonia to hear his fascinating story of how he discovered the ideal terroir to make some of the greatest #Malbec in #Argentina. Here's his story: https://t.co/4Qr63f96gN
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