Taittinger drops bid to be French president Pierre Emmanuel Taittinger has said that he is pulling out of the race to be French president, according to comments reported widely in the France press today (22 July). Taittinger was reported as saying that he would not run in the French presidential elections in 2017, due…
Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger to run for French president Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger has caused a stir in French media after announcing that he intends to run for French president. He was quoted in the l’Union newspaper in Champagne as announcing his candidature for France’s president election in 2017. Taittinger is currently president of the eponymous Champagne house. He…
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Pomerol château joins Jack Ma Bordeaux club Château Moulinet, a 16.8 hectare wine estate in Pomerol located close to Château de Sales, is the Beijing investor’s first Bordeaux estate purchase, according to DecanterChina.com, sister site of Decanter.com. It will now form part the group of estates jointly run by associates including Jack Ma, the billionaire…
Dollar wine buyers swoop for Brexit deals Growing numbers of the UK’s fine wine merchants are reporting a post-Brexit boost in demand, but they are also wary that the cost of replenishing their cellars with top wines from Europe could be significantly more expensive. Where is the demand coming from? It is predominantly fine wine…
Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 rises 2.1% in June The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 rose for the seventh consecutive month in June. The index closed the month on 259.71, up 2.12% on May’s closing level of 254.31. The First Growths also saw prices rise: the Liv-ex Fine Wine 50 closed on 292.16, up 2.5% on last…
New Bollinger cellar shows off ‘lost’ treasures When Bollinger staff cleaned out a gallery of its cellar under the house in Aÿ stacked with old, empty bottles, they made a remarkable discovery. Hidden for decades, they unearthed an incredible collection of some 600 bottles, the youngest of which was found to be 1921 and the…
What Brexit Means for Bordeaux Is there really anything else that we can write about this week? I am more heartbroken and frustrated than I can remember being. As a British person living in Europe, this was a result that I neither expected nor wanted. But it’s now almost a week on, and reality is…
The UK Decides In four days’ time, we will know the result of the UK’s referendum on continuing membership of the European Union. I’d like to write that the referendum ‘will be over’ – but that depends on the margin of victory for the winning side. The debate has been so divisive and so toxic,…
Bordeaux Big Guns Come Out Firing The Bordeaux 2015 en primeur campaign, now in its endgame, should turn out to be the most exciting and profitable for many years. It is certainly the most talked-about – and the most divisive. Last week saw a flurry of major releases: Cos d’Estournel ($135 per bottle ex-negoce), Margaux…