This afternoon has seen us pay our first visit to the Graves, to taste the wines of Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion. These wines were unsurprisingly good, with La Mission the most obviously and immediately pleasurable but with Haut-Brion offering a very serious wine with enormous, long term, potential. Interestingly, the second wine of Haut-Brion is [...]
Daily Archives: Monday 31 March 2008
Day 1 so far
Monday 31 March 2008 – 14:07
We’ve arrived safely in Bordeaux for the annual En Primeur tastings and hit the ground running with a morning sweep from a number of the Medoc’s top properties. We’ll make a more detailed report at the end of the day, but some pleasant surprises so far have included Clerc-Milon, Mouton, and Cos D’Estournel. Whilst it [...]
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Richard Weaver
Gary Bates
Jeremy Palmer
Clayton Smith
Nick Dagley
Bethany Guard
Becky Leach
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William James
