Ronny de Baere, Belgium: It is still good value to buy some Bordeaux of 1997? Or is better to spend the money, even if the 1997 is cheap, on another vintage?   me:...

Jonathan Brittain, UK: Just a quick question. I have been looking through your archives for any 1997 Bordeaux tasting notes, and not just the top clarets as reported in your 2002 tasting...

Very longstanding readers may remember that my esteemed predecessor Edmund Penning-Rowsell reported every year until his own final vintage, 2002, on the results of a dinner held at his house...

Here are my detailed tasting notes from the comparison of 1997 Bordeaux first growths and equivalents described in free for all from 4 Aug. They appear in the order we tasted the wines and I have...

We all know the 1997 red bordeaux were so overpriced that we didn't want to buy them. But this is a vintage that can provide some really quite pleasant drinking now, provided it wasn't you who...