See Southwold 2008s – right bank . Here is the longer, second instalment of my notes from a comprehensive blind tasting of all the top wines of Bordeaux, and many others...

Here are my notes on all of the right-bank wines tasted at this year's major blind tasting of Bordeaux's four-year-old vintage in the seaside town of Southwold (pictured). An overview and full...

The Merignac–Gatwick route was busy last week with Bordeaux wine producers coming over to London for various showings of their latest vintages to British consumers and trade. In addition to...

I'm very grateful to Flint Wines for organising a major horizontal tasting of representative 2008 red burgundies last week. The wines were picked so late and evolved so slowly in the cellar that...

11 Feb - For a useful overview of the value offered by the 2008 vintage, stylistic evolution on the right bank, and how a new classification will be achieved, see this from...

On a rainy Saturday in September 2008, the 13th, to be precise, Aubert de Villaine of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (pictured) began to think they would not be making any wine in 2008. However, on...

The annual Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux tasting in London - and various other cities around the world - provides a useful opportunity to taste the last but one vintage, 2008 in this case, now...

From £11.50 and $17.99 Find this wine Buying white burgundy from the Côte d'Or heartland has become a perilous business, thanks to the apparently unpredictable threat of...

Nearly 60 grand cru burgundies in one tasting session is rare, to say the least. Though nearly 60 burgundies of any sort in an upper, non-air-conditioned room on a very hot day in London is asking...

From €9.95, £10, $17.85 Find this wine This sizzling dry white was the first that I tasted at Howard Ripley's inspiring tasting of German's alluring 2009s in London last...

Faced with an array of more than 500 Austrian wines at a tasting in London earlier this month, I found it hard to know where to start, and where to finish (I think I was the last one standing...)....

See Burgundy 2008 - a guide for links to 1,400 reviews of 2008 burgundies and all our other coverage of this very varies vintage.  Some of the 2008 reds I tasted at top domaines in...

24 Jan - Have now added some brief notes about individual producers and their recent news, or what they said about the 2008 vintage. 20 Jan -  I do intend to add some...

Please see Burgundy 2008 - a guide to find the other tasting notes and to navigate your way round our extensive coverage of this exasperating vintage. When a wine has been tasted...

Please see Burgundy 2008 - a guide   to find the other tasting notes and  to navigate your way round our extensive coverage of this exasperating vintage. When a wine has...