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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

1 / 5 ( 1 vote ) 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 […]

[digg=http://digg.com/food_drink/Google_Earth_map_of_Bordeaux_s_chateaux]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 […]

It seems a little strange to follow Richard’s post on the extraordinary world of Bordeaux wines and their associated pomp and ceremony with a thought on slightly more ‘everyday’ wines, but I guess that, eventually, will be my point. The great thing about taking care (and seeking good advice) when buying wine is that you can […]