See also Bordeaux 2013 - running late for Gavin Quinney's May report. It's a scary time for vine growers. We need half-decent weather at the right moment or the size and quality of crop...

There hasn't been a poor vintage in Bordeaux for twenty years but the cold, damp weather, as we approach the critical month of June, is a gentle reminder that anything can happen....

28 May - I'm delighted to announce which Purple Pagers have won a pair of free tickets to Bibendum's big Bordeaux tasting at Lord's Cricket Ground in London next Wednesday 5 June: Lee Bostock,...

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...

As I outline in today's wine of the week , I have been lucky enough to have quite a few chances to re-taste red bordeaux from the hugely appealing 2009 vintage (see Tasting articles by region )....

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...