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29 Aug 2012 by Jancis Robinson
Last month Berry Bros invited dozens of leading Bordeaux producers over to London to show their 2011s alongside the vintage with which they are most often compared, the 2008s. Below are my...
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11 Feb 2012 by Jancis Robinson/FT but this is longer
For my tasting notes on all these wines, see Southwold 2008s – right bank and ⁞ Southwold 2008s – left bank , and for the dinner wines, Avery-underwritten La Mission dinner .
For...
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12 May 2011 by Jancis Robinson
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...
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11 Nov 2010 by Julia Harding MW
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...
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18 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson/FT but this is much longer
See our complete guide to coverage of 2008 bordeaux and more than 550 tasting notes on 2008 bordeaux.
By the end of the second week of last September, when the grape harvest is...
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17 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson
Wherein Jancis's annual discussion with Berry Bros' Simon Staples about the wines, the prices and the market moves from audio to video, including a final word or two on the price of 2006 and 2007....
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17 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson/Julia Harding MW
See this complete Bordeaux 2008 guide to our 556 tasting notes and major articles on 2008 Bordeaux .
Tasting notes are presented in this order of appellation:
Dry whites:...
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17 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson
One of the great and mysterious attributes of the 2008 bordeaux vintage is the fact that so many of the more modest wines were showing so well earlier this month. Given the pretty terrible...
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16 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson/Julia Harding MW
Prices positively tumbling out now, folks. See this complete Bordeaux 2008 guide to our 556 tasting notes and major articles on 2008 Bordeaux.
Our tasting notes on left bank...
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15 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson/Julia Harding
See this complete guide to our hundreds of tasting notes and major articles on 2008 Bordeaux .
Tasting notes are presented in this order of appellation:
St-Émilion...
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15 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson
Signs are that this 2008 campaign is really getting going now. This morning, Léoville Barton came out, €27 a bottle from the negociants, 22% down on 2007. Les Forts de Latour has also come...
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14 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson
Tomorrow, Thursday and Friday we’ll be publishing our tasting notes on the more than 550 different 2008s that we tasted in Bordeaux at the beginning of this month. Then on Saturday my general...
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11 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson/FT but this is longer
See our tasting notes and scores on nearly 600 bordeaux 2008s on purple pages. See also What would make you buy 2008 bordeaux? on our members' forum.
The trouble with the 2008...
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1 Apr 2009 by Jancis Robinson
A few very brief observations before dashing off to taste. Have to be at Mouton by nine.
You might like to take a look at a New York Times article about the problem of finding...
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31 Mar 2009 by Jancis Robinson
First impressions good! For the Pessac-Leognan reds I tasted yesterday anyway. The whites are still very high in acidity and seemed a bit more austere than some vintages I remember at this stage....
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