Jancis writes: Our German specialist Michael Schmidt tasted widely at the VDP's Weinbörse, its first showcase of 2012s, in Mainz at the end of last month, an experience he describes in Mosel...

As a Purple Pager, you have the chance to win a pair of tickets to UK wine merchant Bibendum's big tasting of 2012 bordeaux at Lord's Cricket Ground, London NW1,  on 5 June 2013.  Once...

7 May - I think we have probably all had enough of this distinctly lacklustre primeurs campaign. In many cases the prices don't seem to have fallen far enough to ignite interest, or bordeaux...

Last weekend the VDP Weinbörse in Mainz provided the first comprehensive opportunity to assess the wines of the 2012 vintage. The only wines not available for tasting at this stage are the Grosse...

This is the last of 11 tasting articles devoted to Bordeaux 2012 and including more than 500 tasting notes. See The Guide  to our extensive coverage of this very varied vintage - JR....

For our full Bordeaux 2012 coverage, see The Guide . Pomerol, along with Graves and Pessac-Léognan (both reds and especially whites ), produced some of the best wines of 2012....

For our full Bordeaux 2012 coverage, see The Guide . The current market for higher-end Bordeaux has strongly influenced perceptions of this heterogeneous vintage, one in which...

For our full Bordeaux 2012 coverage, see The Guide . In a way this is the most interesting commune of all in 2012 because all three of the major properties Cos d'Estournel,...

For our full Bordeaux 2012 coverage, see The Guide . Everywhere we went in the northern Médoc people seemed to be building or had just built. There were so many cranes and...

For our full Bordeaux 2012 coverage, see The Guide . I was thrilled yesterday (during one of many longueurs in the jury assembly room of Southwark Crown Court) to see that our tally of...

For our extensive coverage of Bordeaux 2012, see The Guide . This week we'll be publishing collections of tasting notes on 2012 reds made in the four major communes of the...

See the guide to our extensive coverage of Bordeaux 2012 , including tasting notes on about 450 wines. What was it Robert Burns said about a mouse? 'Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O,...

For our full Bordeaux 2012 coverage, see The Guide . The set of 60-plus wines described below is probably the group of reds about which I am most excited in 2012. It's not that the average...

For our full Bordeaux 2012 coverage, see The Guide . The problem with the appellations listed below is that they are so dependent on Cabernet Sauvignon, the late-ripening variety that had...

For our full Bordeaux 2012 coverage, see The Guide . For the 42 wines described below, generalisations are even more difficult than in general for the troubled 2012 Bordeaux...