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1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Thursday, 3 September 2009

Coteaux du Layon 2007 tasting@Decanter

Have been at Decanter magazine today at a Decanter panel tasting looking at the 2007 vintage in the Coteaux du Layon including Bonnezeaux and Quarts de Chaume. The results will appear in the January 2010 edition of Decanter. There were some superb wines in the tasting, showing both the quality today of what can be made in the Layon and how good the best sweet wines from the 2007 vintage are – miraculously precise with a really thrilling balance of sweetness and acidity.

View from Decanter's dining room next to the tasting room

Decanter magazine is now housed in IPC's Blue Fin Building with a spectacularly sited tasting room overlooking St Paul's and the City of London with the Tate Modern in the foreground.

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Report on yesterday's lunch with Keith Prothero now finished here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am a regular reader of Decanter ($10 here). The annual tasting has some critics but one is at least able to read some TNs of some exceptional wines supplied for the tasting.

Bob in Alberta.