Bordeaux 2005

Inside information Grrrrr. My old friend Simon Staples, Berry Bros' ebullient sales supremo, has been at it again – huffing and puffing...

Free for all Few of you interested in Bordeaux 2005 will need me to tell you that at long last the important (aka...

Free for all The suspense is almost killing us, isn’t it? The wait for the real heavyweights of the 2005 primeurs campaign, I...

Free for all I have long criticised London wine merchants Armit for offering their wares by the unmixed dozen bottles only but now...

Free for all Last week I wrote about how Nature delivered the potential to make a perfect red wine vintage in Bordeaux in...

Tasting articles All of these Pessac-Léognan whites were tasted blind, as you can probably tell from the notes. The word in Bordeaux...

Tasting articles There are some wonderful, wonderful wines here – set to rival the best 2001s. The extraordinary feature of 2005 for...

Inside information Prices of 2005 bordeaux are starting to come out more convincingly than the trickle of early chancers. J P Moueix...

Tasting articles There should be some real value in this little collection of the wines carrying the appellations Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur, Côtes...

Tasting articles The 120-plus wines described below include the greatest young St-Émilion I have ever tasted, Cheval Blanc, and some excellent wines...

Tasting articles And so we move on to the right bank after all last week’s left bank tasting notes and find lots...

Free for all Most years I find tasting hundreds of young primeur samples of bordeaux each spring intellectually fascinating but physically exhausting. This...

Tasting articles I was very impressed by the number of successful Pessac-Léognans and Graves made in 2005. You’ll find notes on many...

Tasting articles Battle of the giants between Cos and the under-sale Montrose here – and giant is the word for the proportions...

Tasting articles Lots of heavy hitters here. Latour has excelled itself again, and yet Lafite is a stunning wine and continues to...

Tasting articles This was, as usual, a very solid performance though perhaps not as relatively thrilling as in some more difficult years...