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, [...]
It’s that time of year again. Next week, thousands of wine trade types from across the world will descend on Bordeaux for a week-long, stamina-testing series of tastings of the new vintage. As ever, Majestic (yours truly included) will be there, and we’ll report back via this very blog in as much detail as our [...]
We’ve just posted the latest staff article over on majestic.co.uk. Piers Marter, who only joined Majestic a few months before the trip, writes about his experiences helping with the harvest at Château Caronne Ste-Gemme in Bordeaux.
The opportunity to spend a week helping with the vendange is one of the more unusual staff “benefits” at [...]
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