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For the third time, fine-wine traders Bordeaux Index held a Ten Years On tasting of top red bordeaux earlier this...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my tasting notes on almost...
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See my overview of this fascinating tasting of nearly 120 red bordeaux from the 2002 vintage, including pointers to the...
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It was fascinating to taste such a wide range of 2002 red bordeaux so soon after looking at so many...
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For detailed tasting notes and scores on more than 150 2002 bordeaux retasted in bottle, see purple pages. One of...
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Despite their late beginnings, both in the vineyard and cellar, Bordeaux’s 2002s are all, except for a handful of grand...
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I have been sent a second sample of Ch Haut Bailly 2002 because the owners did not recognise my original...
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See my vintage overview in wine news, but in brief: My top ten reds Ch Latour Ch Margaux Ch Mouton...
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Purple pagers should see also my detailed notes on specific appellations and my detailed tasting notes and scores. Perhaps the...
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In the bitter engagement that is the current Franco-American relationship the first real casualty – setting aside the linguistic one...
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These notes, to be read as background to my tasting notes, are generally more specific observations than those in my...
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Frédéric Engerer, who has been under fire for asking more for Latour (65 euros) than the 60 euros already announced...
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Claire Villars, one of the lucky members of the greater Merlaut family (Gruaud Larose, etc) who all seem to be...
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The prodigious modernist Dr Alain Raynaud has taken a small historic step in to the Bordeaux place [wine market] by...
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See my detailed tasting notes on the bordeaux 2002. Please read my scores out of 20 and likely drinking dates...
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Please read my scores out of 20 and likely drinking dates with extreme caution. In most cases they are based...
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