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27/05/2020
Winemaking Against The Odds: Jean-Paul & Benoit Droin
“Pure, crystalline and with a fine balance between power and minerality” is how our Director of Trade and resident Frenchman Olivier Gasselin describes Benoit Droin’s masterful Chablis wines. Vines were first planted in Chablis in 1133 by the monks of Pontigny and by the 15th and 16th centuries several families bearing the Droin name owned…
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20/05/2020
Italy Shines Bright On The Fine Wine Market
Despite gloomy weather on the wider markets, Italy has brought welcome sunshine to the fine wine market in the first four months of 2020 with growing market share and dominance of Liv-Ex’s top performers table. Italian wines claimed five spots on Liv-Ex’s top 10 price performers for Q1 2020. Leading the table was Sassicaia 2009…
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18/05/2020
“The Yin Of Australian Wine”: Henschke Hill of Grace 2015
The story of Henschke begins with a tragedy. In the 1840s Johann Christian Henschke left behind his homeland of Silesia in modern-day Poland and made the 98-day journey to Australia in search of a new life. Sadly his wife and two of his children did not survive the journey. Henschke settled down in Australia and…
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13/05/2020
Join Us With Liber Pater’s Loic Pasquet On Instagram Live
“I replanted old pre-phylloxera grapes like Tarnais Coulant and Castet as the idea is to rediscover the taste of Bordeaux wines that everyone was talking about at the time of the 1855 classification, but that nobody knows nowadays.” Loic Pasquet Join us on Instagram on Friday as our CEO & Co-Founder Daniel Carnio speaks to Loic Pasquet, creator…
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