Now that people's thoughts are turning to the presentation of the 2013 vintage in Bordeaux at the beginning of April (see our plans for coverage explained), I thought it might be timely to pass on what Christian Moueix, the prominent right-bank wine producer and merchant, had to say about it in New York at the end of last October. He was there, inter alia, to present a vertical of his Napa Valley wine Dominus (from whose website this moody portrait was taken), complete with trenchant observations on the California wine scene on which I report in Dominus and what's...
Bordeaux 2013 – Moueix's dire predictions
Monday 24 February 2014
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