From €4.99 , £8.49, NZ$22.41, Au$24.95, 1,524 Swedish krone a dozen Find this wine This is where the real value in Bordeaux lies, in the little, best-tended corners of the...

Firstly, very many thanks to the 268 Purple Pagers who took the trouble to complete our six-question survey designed to quantify the level of interest in tasting notes on Bordeaux 2011 primeurs...

The survey is now closed. Thanks so much to all 268 Purple Pagers who were kind enough to share their views with us. Today is Chinese New Year. A few years ago few people in the wine business...

Every November, just before the official welcome ceremony at Vintners' Hall for new Masters of Wine, the tasting committee of the Institute of MWs organises a tasting of leading red bordeaux from...

Late morning on the last day of WineFuture Hong Kong was devoted to a tasting for about 1,000 tasters of 20 red bordeaux 2009s presented by Robert Parker (see this video clip ). The numbers were...

The enterprising Kensington wine store Roberson has a particularly good programme of evening wine tastings that Julia and I are often lucky enough to participate in. At the end of last June...

See my tasting notes on 56 smart red left-bank bordeaux 1996s. Of all the red bordeaux vintages to be drunk now, 1996 is a particularly good bet if you like mature, traditional claret –...

Herewith a roundup of news from Bordeaux, including a detailed report on the 2011 vintage so far. 2009 Crus Bourgeois As I have pointed out with doubtless annoying frequency such as...

I know well how important it is to keep tasting and reviewing older wines. Along with vintage port, fine red bordeaux is the archetypal wine that demands long ageing, or at least deserves long...

For my detailed look at how 1996 crus classés are tasting now, published in Bordeaux '96s today , I asked Liv-ex to calculate the average price of each significant vintage currently in...

TONG is a pretty classy wine magazine edited and published by Filip Verheyde, Flemish food and wine critic. Rather distinctively, it carries no advertising whatsoever, believing that advertising...

From €8.45, £8.95, 89 Swedish krone, HK$115, $16.99. Find this wine As I am always banging on about, some of the best value in the world lurks at the base of the pyramid of...

Later - Florence Hivert also suggests Ch Le  Sèpe 2009. Last weekend the CIVB, the generic organisation charged with, and often criticised for, promoting the wines of Bordeaux...

It's always interesting to read how the UK's leading trader in fine wine has got on. Here is Farr Vintners' report just out on their Bordeaux 2010 campaign. See our Bordeaux 2010 guide ....

Liv-ex, international wine trading platform and market analysts, likes nothing more than a bit of financial analysis. The research team, aka Jack Hibberd, recently turned its attention to the...