Upcoming buying trip: The Rhone Valley's 2008s

Next week sees the buying team of Hew Blair and Giles Burke-Gaffney visit the Rhone valley. Starting off with a visit to Clos des Fees in Roussillon, they'll move up through Châteauneuf-du-Pape visiting amongst others, Usseglio, Pegau, Versino, Beaucastel and Vieux Telegraph. Leaving no wine untasted they'll head North to visit our plethora of producers in St Joseph, Côte Rotie, Hermitage Cornas and Condrieu.

They will be posting daily on the 2008's they taste: decanting their thoughts regularly for you to read.

Watch this space.