HeyJaredRaymond Blake
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- Oct 1, 2026
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Wine: A Global History (opens the original)
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Raymond Blake reviews Wine: A Global History by Kathleen Burk. I have wine in my bones and have shared a significant part of my life with it.” This is how Kathleen Burk concludes her introduction to Wine: A Global History. However, given the obvious effort, in terms of impressively wide research, that went into the writing of this book, she surely has wine in her blood also. Across 18 chapters and some 600 pages—more than 100 of which are devoted to appendix, notes, bibliography, acknowledgments
Vintage voyage: A home in Burgundy (opens the original)
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In the last instalment of our summer series of highlights from The World of Fine Wine’s extensive archive of travel writing from the world’s wine regions, Raymond Blake reflects on his experience of buying a house in Burgundy and making a home in a favorite holiday destination. This article was first published in WFW67 in 2020. The high stone wall, fortress-thick and roofed with red tiles, gave no promise of what lay beyond. Nor did the wooden garage door, wizened with age, or the metal pedestri
Léoville Barton at 200 (opens the original)
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Originally from Northern Ireland, the Barton family have weathered many ups and downs during their 200-year association with Château Léoville Barton in St-Julien. But the wine itself has always been a model of a certain kind of Bordeaux classicism, says Raymond Blake. When is a château not a château? When it is Château Léoville Barton, the St-Julien second growth that celebrates two centuries of Barton family ownership this year. Bordeaux’s Médoc may be home to many splendid, turreted, and caste
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