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The 2023 anniversary vintage wines are a mixed bunch… A year that began in crisis, 2022 did not conclude with peace and goodwill. The biggest armed conflict in Europe since World War II rages on as Russia, with barbaric intensity … Continue reading

Two exception bottles of Taylor’s Vintage Port… A total of 30,000 pipes – the traditional Douro barrel of 534 litres that was taken as the equivalent of 60-dozen bottles – was made in 1948. That’s 21,600,000 bottles of Port…! But there aren’t … Continue reading

Ah, the French are very good at sensible names for their wines… A champagne labelled as “Extra Dry” (by Pol Roger or anybody else) is obviously dry, ain’t it? Actually, Extra Dry (or Extra Sec) is – incongruously – a … Continue reading

Recently Arden Fine Wines acquired a bottle of Château Climens from a private seller. The bottle shows no vintage where it should be, at top-centre of the label.  But otherwise all present and correct, including “73cl” – rather than 75cl – as the … Continue reading

1945 Pol Roger Extra Cuvée de Réserve… 🍾 This very rare bottle was opened by Arden Fine Wines for our friends at Middle Temple. It was born at about the same time that Pol Roger’s greatest fan Sir Winston Churchill … Continue reading

From my friend Vic Mills: “Hi Stuart, Project greetings from a decidedly autumnal Berlin. Please find attached the latest – Autumn Collection Special – newsletter. As you might imagine, it was another busy quarter for the project. Included in the … Continue reading

When Château Lafite’s 1982 vintage was released in 1983, it was sold ex-cellars by UK wine merchants to private clients at about £300 per dozen. Today, £300 would buy you about 75ml of 1982 Lafite (from #ArdenFineWines, anyway 😁). It remains the most … Continue reading

On Monday 21st November, I will be joining other business leaders in London at CEO Sleepout UK, sleeping outdoors at Lord’s Cricket Ground to raise funds for people who have been pulled into homelessness. By and large, people don’t choose to be homeless. … Continue reading