And they’re off! The first wines of the campaign are now available to order online. Highlights include some superb Sauternes, notably the stellar Rieussec and Suduiraut, plus a pair of highly demanded Pomerols from J.P. Moueix, Hosanna and Fleur-Pétrus.
Before ordering we advise customers to read our vintage report, and be familiar with the timetable for [...]
The wait is over for Bordeaux’s proprietors as Robert Parker releases his assessment of the 2007 vintage. There are no real surprises, with Parker summing up the vintage as “an improved, modern-day version of 1997″ and echoing our own comments about the importance of terroir and investment in the vineyard:
There are certainly plenty of [...]
Very quickly (it’s nearly the weekend after all), I’ve just posted our Bordeaux 2007 “wish list”. Basically, its the list of wines we liked the most from our tastings, and our en primeur offer will be drawn from this list.
I draw your attention to the important caveat that we will only actually buy those wines [...]
It’s always interesting when we get back from the Bordeaux trip to have a look around and see how other people have reviewed the vintage. The appraisal seems pretty consistent this year - great for whites and Sauternes, less so for reds although some soft, appealing wines have been made.
Some interesting links if you’d like [...]
It’s a hard life - today we began the day with an appointment at Château Latour. Latour have done a good job of managing the vintage conditions (as you’d expect) and made a soft and stylish Latour. The wine has been beefed up with around 15% press wine to give it tannic structure and backbone, [...]
Our busiest day of tasting today, covering Pomerol, St-Emilion and Graves. Fortunately, with the 2007s being lighter in body and tannin than the last few years, the tasting is not as physically demanding as it sometimes is - our teeth are a bit less blackened than usual, and our palates are still functioning normally.
As for [...]
Today we’ve (almost) completed our sweep through the Médoc 2007s. It’s been an up and down sort of day, and we feel we ‘understand’ the vintage much better than this time yesterday, so here are our observations.
Firstly, some very rough generalisations. Overall, the 2007 vintage on the Médoc is lighter and generally slightly less impressive [...]
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 being [...]
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 is too [...]
We’ve put together a Google Earth file with the locations of Bordeaux’s leading properties (plus some of our favourite smaller châteaux), so you can get a bird’s eye view of this fascinating region.
If you’ve got Google Earth installed on your computer, just download the KML file and enjoy. If you don’t have Google Earth installed, [...]
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