Below are notes taken from a fascinating blind comparison at Ch Lafite of top sweet white bordeaux made in the 1996 and 1995 vintages described in When sugar is good . Wine director of...

From $14.99 a half. Find this wine The other day I was at one of our regular blind tastings at Buckingham Palace (if you’re going to drop a name, it may as well be a...

James Stark, UK: 1989 Sauternes - I have a number of half...

Recent correspondence about Guigal (see Your turn in purple pages ) reminded me that Yves Gangloff, who makes a particularly graceful Côte Rôtie and a humdinger of a Condrieu, and...

I've been lucky enough to be invited to some very good dinners recently. This one, focused on some exceptionally mature red burgundies, several of them bought in Belgium, and a couple of...

This wonderful tasting of 37 vintages back to 1964 took place at Ch Climens at the end of the Bordeaux primeurs week, in early April 2009. Lucien Lurton, father of the current owner...

I talked to Bérénice Lurton, owner of Ch Climens in Barsac, after a vertical tasting of nearly 40 vintage of Ch Climens back to 1964. Here she speaks of eternal youth and the 2008 vintage....

Château Gilette is one of the smallest and most idiosyncratic properties in Sauternes. Even though it is now run by a new generation, Julie Gonet-Médeville and her husband Xavier...

Roger Butland, Reading: I have been slowly working through my 1989 Climens halves and found them excellent and, I thought, all I wanted from a Sauternes and in a superior league to the 1990...