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Piedmont – Three estates you should really know about
As Piedmont’s star continues to rise and allocations are wrestled out of the most celebrated cellars, there is a tide of quality, family estates quietly going about their business with all the same diligence and care for their wines.
Piedmont – It’s not just Barolo and Barbaresco…
The finest wines of Barolo and Barbaresco are now highly coveted and sought after. For good reason, in our view. Over the past decade in particular, consumers seem to have finally latched on to the unbelievable quality and terroir-transparency that the great Nebbiolo grape can convey.
Sustainability at Justerini & Brooks
Working towards a better future. Drinking fine wine shouldn’t cost the Earth. While our environmental impact may be relatively small, we feel it’s right to minimise our carbon footprint in whatever way we can.
SERIOUS SCOTCH FROM SINGLE CASKS
The pinnacle for any collector is the 40-year-old Port Ellen, bottled from a 1979 cask. This superlative bottling of Port Ellen is one of only 575 produced in the world.
INTRODUCING ULTREIA SAINT JAMES'S
Justerini & Brooks is excited to launch a very limited, exclusive project in partnership with Raúl Pérez.
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VINTAGE REPORTS
Bordeaux 2022
Anyone who’s had the Bordeaux marketing experience will know that chateaux have a slight obsession with numbers. It’s a statistician’s dream: IPTs, pHs, assemblages, percentage of new oak, hours of sunshine, temperature charts, rainfall.
Piedmont 2019
Piedmont 2019 promises a raft of vertical, nuanced Barolos and Barbarescos that will thrill Nebbiolo lovers from the first encounter. Initiating a trio of potentially outstanding vintages, 2019 has a toned, energetic character with a gravitas and vitality to the fruit that in our view most closely resembles the exceptional 2013 vintage at the same stage.
Burgundy 2021
A vintage full of jewel-like wines that have emerged from a growing season that was never plain sailing. After a devastating early spring frost, growers had to work harder than ever, all the while bringing in some of their smallest crops on record.
Rhône 2021
We have always adored the Rhône Valley in all its luminous, lavish, multi-faceted splendour. It is, though, an uncomfortable truth that the Rhône has fallen out of favour to the sorts of “precise”, “vivid”, “mineral-driven” wines that are easy to appreciate but hard to access.
Tuscany 2022
We are delighted to introduce the Justerini & Brooks Tuscany Collection 2022. Our Tuscan portfolio is small in scale but high in quality. It is concise. From the Radda hills of Chianti Classico we are exclusive importers for the sanguine, vivid, stony wines of Monteraponi.
Germany 2022
The 2022 Rieslings have surprised everybody. Animated and open, acidity levels sit between 2019 and 2020 – these are not flabby wines, nor are they diluted.
VINTAGE REPORTS
Bordeaux 2022
Anyone who’s had the Bordeaux marketing experience will know that chateaux have a slight obsession with numbers. It’s a statistician’s dream: IPTs, pHs, assemblages, percentage of new oak, hours of sunshine, temperature charts, rainfall.
Piedmont 2019
Piedmont 2019 promises a raft of vertical, nuanced Barolos and Barbarescos that will thrill Nebbiolo lovers from the first encounter. Initiating a trio of potentially outstanding vintages, 2019 has a toned, energetic character with a gravitas and vitality to the fruit that in our view most closely resembles the exceptional 2013 vintage at the same stage.
Burgundy 2021
A vintage full of jewel-like wines that have emerged from a growing season that was never plain sailing. After a devastating early spring frost, growers had to work harder than ever, all the while bringing in some of their smallest crops on record.
Rhône 2021
We have always adored the Rhône Valley in all its luminous, lavish, multi-faceted splendour. It is, though, an uncomfortable truth that the Rhône has fallen out of favour to the sorts of “precise”, “vivid”, “mineral-driven” wines that are easy to appreciate but hard to access.
Tuscany 2022
We are delighted to introduce the Justerini & Brooks Tuscany Collection 2022. Our Tuscan portfolio is small in scale but high in quality. It is concise. From the Radda hills of Chianti Classico we are exclusive importers for the sanguine, vivid, stony wines of Monteraponi.
Germany 2022
The 2022 Rieslings have surprised everybody. Animated and open, acidity levels sit between 2019 and 2020 – these are not flabby wines, nor are they diluted.
VINTAGE REVIEWS
Piedmont 2013 – Ten years on
Freshly returned from the first of our two annual tours around Piedmont to assess the 2019 Barolo and Barbaresco vintages, we decided to make a concerted effort to also taste an array of 2013s at ten years old.
Bordeaux 2019: Southwold-on-Thames
Unlike the Donald Fagen song, I found myself on very much the same wavelength as these 19s. This was the best Southwold tasting I’ve been involved with, even trumping the outstanding 2009s and 2016s.
2018 Red Burgundy Retrospective
A September check-in on the 2018 red Burgundies proved a fascinating, and at times, thrilling five days of tasting. I had not tasted the vintage so extensively since the Autumn of 2019 and so I was delighted to find as many good wines as I did then, from barrel; if anything I came away even more enthused than my initial impressions allowed me.
2018 White Burgundy Retrospective
The burgfest team convened earlier in the summer to assess the 2018 White Burgundy vintage in bottle. Burgfest is a crack team of 10 Burgundy specialists, a mixture of wine merchant buyers and journalists, gathered in the peaceful setting of the wonderful Hameau de Barboron just outside of Savigny Les Beaune.
Calon Segur vertical tasting
All in the name of progress – Calon Segur vertical A providentially timed email resulted in an invitation we couldn’t refuse – a vertical tasting with Vincent Millet, followed by lunch in the recently refurbished chateau.
VINTAGE REVIEWS
Piedmont 2013 – Ten years on
Freshly returned from the first of our two annual tours around Piedmont to assess the 2019 Barolo and Barbaresco vintages, we decided to make a concerted effort to also taste an array of 2013s at ten years old.
Bordeaux 2019: Southwold-on-Thames
Unlike the Donald Fagen song, I found myself on very much the same wavelength as these 19s. This was the best Southwold tasting I’ve been involved with, even trumping the outstanding 2009s and 2016s.
2018 Red Burgundy Retrospective
A September check-in on the 2018 red Burgundies proved a fascinating, and at times, thrilling five days of tasting. I had not tasted the vintage so extensively since the Autumn of 2019 and so I was delighted to find as many good wines as I did then, from barrel; if anything I came away even more enthused than my initial impressions allowed me.
2018 White Burgundy Retrospective
The burgfest team convened earlier in the summer to assess the 2018 White Burgundy vintage in bottle. Burgfest is a crack team of 10 Burgundy specialists, a mixture of wine merchant buyers and journalists, gathered in the peaceful setting of the wonderful Hameau de Barboron just outside of Savigny Les Beaune.
Calon Segur vertical tasting
All in the name of progress – Calon Segur vertical A providentially timed email resulted in an invitation we couldn’t refuse – a vertical tasting with Vincent Millet, followed by lunch in the recently refurbished chateau.
Bordeaux 2021: An insight from our Head of Sales, George Wilmoth
The narrative about Bordeaux en primeur often begins long before we’ve tasted the wines. Every slight change in weather is seized on as an indicator of success, or failure, with disaster stories dominating opinion.
A memorable vertical of Clos des Ducs
When an invitation to a 29 wine vertical of Marquis d’Angerville’s Monopole Clos des Ducs landed on my e-doorstep, I did not think twice. Invites like this don’t come round very often, in fact it may be the only chance I ever get to taste this wine so extensively, I thought to myself.
South Africa 2022: Big Skies
“Big Skies” I mumbled, as a striking silhouette traced the skyline and the lacy, sweet, mint-like scent of fynbos hung for a fleeting moment in the air. In the final twilight minutes, immediately before darkness envelops the Swartland completely, when the deep fire-red glow of sunset wanes under the pressure of the heavy inky-black sky, the old wind-battered, scraggy arched trees that dot the mountain top morph into being, high above the Paardeberg vineyards below.
2018 Scotland portfolio tasting
Last week we welcomed guests to the New Club in Edinburgh for a Portfolio tasting, our first tasting in Scotland for two years.
GERMANY 2022 VDP Grosses Gewächs
After a two-year Covid hiatus, it was an honour to be invited back to Wiesbaden to intensively taste all the upcoming VDP Grosses Gewächs (GG) releases over a full three days, brushing shoulders with the who’s who of the national and international German wine business and press.
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