The following wines, more than 100 reds and a handful of sweet wines, were tasted non-blind in mid August in London courtesy of the World of Fine Wine magazine, which will be publishing a review of 2004 Bordeaux in bottle later this year. It’s a slightly...
Bordeaux 2004 at four – Part 1
Thursday 21 August 2008
Please read these tasting notes in conjunction with Bordeaux 2004 at four – Part 2.
A couple of weeks ago we asked you here to vote on whether tasting notes on 2004 bordeaux were of interest to you and you voted overwhelmingly in favour of Julia's immersing herself in them. Here is the result.
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