From €21.90, $35.99, Sw Fr 41, £32.64 Find this wine The big blind tasting of more than 200 significant 2006 bordeaux that I undertook in Southwold a couple of weeks...

See Southwold 2006s – a guide for links to my tasting notes and related articles. The Chinese may be in love with Château Lafite and any wine remotely related to it – a six-litre...

The most interesting thing I learnt at last month’s tasting of smart 2006 bordeaux in bottle in London was that Frédéric Castéja, son of powerful Bordeaux négociant Philippe Castéja, was to...

The Union des Grands Crus have been travelling the world to show off their 2006s now that they are in bottle. Tomorrow I will provide an overview of how they tasted in London recently, both in...

Here's a category that does not get nearly as much attention as it deserves today. There have been massive improvements in vineyards and cellars at the more basic end of the bordeaux spectrum and...

  Berry Bros & Rudd showed a range of bordeaux as they have late summer for the last few years. I concentrated on the 2006s as this was the first chance I had had to see them again...

So, as predicted, this week sees the big flurry of Bordeaux 2006 primeur releases (so deeply unfashionable to arrive before the last minute..). We can now choose  therefore between...

At the end of last week I went to Berry Bros in their historic London offers  - sorry, office - to take part in one of their podcasks. This entailed finally meeting their sales director...

As expected, the much-loved Bartons as usual release their wines ahead of the pack at reasonably predictable, if robust, prices. If you want either of these wines (and they were both...

An American journalist put various questions to me yesterday about the Bordeaux 2006 market so I thought I may as well share them with purple pagers since there is clearly some interest in this...

Word is from both merchants and retailers that the Bordeaux 2006 campaign is very flat indeed.   Despite the most skilful selective reporting of Parker’s report on the vintage...

Most of the stuff sent by UK merchants about 2006 bordeaux releases is pretty anodyne stuff about price and how wonderful the wine its but I thought this overview just in from Charles Lea...

I have just received the first of what will doubtless be a deluge of emails today from wine merchants trying to flog the 2006 bordeaux on the strength of Robert Parker’s pronouncements on...

I’ve noticed one or two merchants mentioning the quantity of Bordeaux 2006 made, saying it was less than in 2005 and much less than in 2004. Well, it is true that total production of AC...

All the tasting notes we amassed during our week in Bordeaux are now published, amounting to nearly 450 different wines, tasted variously once, twice and occasionally three times, the majority by...