A blog from Jeroboams

“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth”  Charles Eisenstein Living in a world of instant …

Aquaplaning our way up the A6 from Geneva, the road illuminated by sheet lightning, was the rather unnerving manner in which we arrived late Sunday evening into Beaune. A fitting welcome from a wine region whose …

One of the most traditional aspects of the wine trade is the annual phenomenon that is a Bordeaux en primeur campaign. I’m coming to the end of my eleventh en primeur vintage so I ought …

“Not too little, not too much…just right.” The global wine-trade descends upon Bordeaux every April, armed with the familiar cliché, “Can you compare this to another vintage?” 2018 is a unique vintage, Bordeaux has rarely, …

Founded in 1891, The Caledonian Club is known as a little bit of Scotland in the heart of London. It’s also a stone’s throw away from our shops in Belgravia and Knightsbridge, making it an …

“It’s certainly the best vintage ending in 7 since the famous 1947” Emmanuel Cruse, Grand Maitre of the Commanderie du Bontemps, Medoc, Graves, Sauternes, and Barsac. Reading the above, you’d be forgiven for thinking that …

If the British love to talk about the weather, the Burgundians will fervently hope that they never need speak of it again in such terms as the 2016 vintage in Burgundy. There is nothing so …