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From my friend Vic Mills: “Hi Stuart, Please find attached the latest project newsletter. A slightly longer edition than usual, it reflects a busy third-quarter to the project year. Much of it centred around our September kit collections followed by … Continue reading

Arden Fine Wines was delighted to support the Gérard Basset Foundation with a fine wine lunch for a lucky bidder at the Golden Vines® Fine Wine, Rare Spirit & Experience Global Online Charity Auction. 1988 Pol Roger Extra Dry White Foil … Continue reading

Only 6,101 bottles of Romanée-Conti were produced in 1996. A high-acid vintage, like 1957 and 1972. “Don’t drop it”, he thinks to himself… 😶 39 DRC wines available at https://ardenfinewines.com/?s=Domaine+de+la+Romanée-Conti&post_type=product

The April 1974 Revolução dos Cravos (“Carnation Revolution”) ended 41 years of the authoritarian Estado Novo (“New State”) regime in Portugal. Port producers faced the 1974 grape harvest with some trepidation due to the volatile political, social, and economic climate. … Continue reading

Pablo Picasso’s work was chosen to adorn the 1973 vintage by Mouton’s owner Baron Philippe de Rothschild “in homage to Picasso (1881-1973)” to commemorate Picasso’s passing earlier that year. Château Mouton Rothschild was promoted from Deuxième Cru (Second Growth) to … Continue reading

This Pauillac estate was acquired by Baron Philippe de Rothschild (of Mouton Rothschild) in 1970, when it was called Château Clerc-Milon-Mondon. He dropped the Mondon part of the name and redesigned the label, modelling it on a silver “jungfraubecher” wedding beaker … Continue reading

A light, aromatic, and pleasant Margaux – similar to the 1971 vintage (but less expensive). A mature fine wine to be enjoyed with an equally well-aged friend. See more on Château Margaux 1973 at https://ardenfinewines.com/product/chateau-margaux-1973/

The 1971 Château Mouton Rothschild label displays a 1939 artwork by the (already late by 1971) Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), the original of which now hangs in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The 1971 vintage of Château Mouton Rothschild was fruity … Continue reading

Château Latour 1970… In its early days Latour 1970 was a wine that was chewed rather than drunk – it was uncompromisingly tannic. Still, Latour is arguably the best wine of the 1970 Bordeaux vintage and those tannins have kept … Continue reading

When 1962 Lafite was released in 1965, it retailed at about £2 per bottle, which would now equate to about £40. Happy days… This largely forgotten Bordeaux vintage has always been upstaged by the bravado of 1961, which was a … Continue reading