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What is En Primeur? A look at Burgundy 2024
Whilst the New Year can mean a chance to rest and recoup after the chaos of Christmas, for wine merchants who offer en primeur the charge continues.
Bordeaux 2024 Report
Starting in Saint Estèphe on day one and finishing in the Graves four days later, we tasted over two hundred samples of what turns out to have been a pleasing...
En Primeur Q&A
It refers to wines that are waiting to be shipped to the UK, in most cases the wines are still in barrels in the growers’ cellar. When ordering En Primeur...
Points Mean Prizes
Points in wine is a contentious subject – it has been since Robert Parker published his review of the famed 1982 Bordeaux vintage in (his) The Wine...
Bordeaux 2023 Vintage Report
2023 has generally produced balanced, fresh, elegant red wines with plenty of attractive fruit and ripe tannins. They will drink well relatively early but will have the...
Demystifying En Primeur
As a customer of Tanners, you will almost certainly have seen the words En Primeur, but what is it? Is it expensive? And where do you even start? Like you,...
Burgundy 2022 En Primeur
Tanners’ Burgundy 2022 En Primeur campaign is upon us, and while I don’t expect to see another rendition of “best-ever vintage” from many quarters, I wonder...
Bordeaux 2022 Left Bank Report
As you may have already heard on the grapevine, 2022 will be remembered as a bit of a miracle vintage. With hot and dry conditions over much of the summer...
Bordeaux 2022 Right Bank
On day three of our Bordeaux trip, we said farewell to the Left Bank and moved eastwards to the Right Bank appellations of Pomerol and Saint-Émilion. Initial...