We finish our week devoted to Mature Bordeaux with an account of some of the most famous red bordeaux of the last century and some of their peers. The last time we stayed chez the...

The following notes were taken at a super-luxurious comparative tasting hosted by Christie's in London back in November 2005. I'm publishing them as part of my intention to beef up the number...

Most of my tasting notes are taken at professional tastings, increasingly straight on to a laptop , e-notebook or even occasionally straight on to my Blackberry. But I do carry round paper...

I'm currrently trying to juggle appointments and tastings all over the left and right banks in the Gironde at the end of this month.  As a run up to my tastings of the much-heralded 2009...

Our second offer in this Older Bordeaux Week focuses on one of the most distinctive and traditional properties on the right bank.  This magnificent vertical tasting took place over a dinner...

We start our Older Bordeaux Week with a look at two of my favourite properties whose wines can offer so much savour, distinctive character and great balance. Last month I was...

9 Mar - If you are interested in Ch Lafleur, note that Justerini & Brooks are also making a special offer of the exceptional 1995, 2000, 2001 and 2005 vintages.  The...

I promised both when recommending last week's wine of the week and with yesterday's very short video that I would publish an account of a tasting of vintages of the St-Julien third...

In last week's wine of the week, I promised to publish an account of a tasting lunch at Le Gavroche in London with the new man at Ch Lagrange in St-Julien. Bruno Eynard took over from Marcel...

Bill Blatch runs Bordeaux negociant Vintex and is one of the members of the Bordeaux wine trade who is most fascinated by how wines actually taste. For some years he is widely acknowledged...

Bill Blatch runs Bordeaux négociant Vintex and is one of the members of the Bordeaux wine trade who is most fascinated by how wines actually taste. For some years he has been widely...

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...

One of the great attractions of the annual get-together to blind-taste a bordeaux vintage in bottle over three days in Southwold, Suffolk, in January is that all participants are encouraged to...

In Berry Bros' premises in St James's, London, towards the end of last year, Alfred Tesseron presented a range of vintages designed to display all the work he has invested in Ch Pontet-Canet since...