Bordeaux 2016
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Château Capbern 2016 St-Estèphe
A sophisticated bordeaux that’s lush, vibrant and ready to drink now. From £20 a bottle in bond or as low as £27, $39.99 retail. Before picking my wine of the...
Tom Parker MW
Friday 18 April 2025
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Collecting on a budget – bordeaux
Dreaming of a cellar like this? Some suggested bordeaux bargains for those just starting out. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See this Guide to...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 13 January 2024
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The annual Southwold-on-Thames tastings were exceptional this year. Here we all are, hard at work, overlooked by François Mitjavile of...
Tasting articles
The third, last and most comprehensive report on this year's Southwold-on-Thames blind tasting of 264 2016s from Bordeaux's best addresses...
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The second of three reports on this year's Southwold-on-Thames blind tasting of 2016 bordeaux. See also yesterday's report on the...
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We begin the week's series of tasting articles on this year's Southwold-on-Thames blind tasting of the 2016 Bordeaux vintage with...
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If you're interested in red bordeaux, see also Why it pays to buy crus bourgeois.
The 2016 and 2015 vintages...
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So how did those crus bourgeois taste at the tasting being prepared by the team in this picture?
Jancis writes...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. In theory we’re in the middle of Bordeaux’s...
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I may have missed tasting the primeurs this year (see this guide to our coverage of them), but I valued...
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A guide to Bordeaux vintages. See also UGC Bordeaux 2016 in bottle for tasting notes from the London trade tasting...
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As a follow up to our comprehensive survey of 2016 crus bourgeois , we tackle the posh stuff from the...
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Richard and Julia find many examples of good-quality, affordable and eminently drinkable bordeaux in the latest official selection of crus...
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Every spring, as the en primeur campaign grinds into action, a small group of Bordeaux cru classé producers comes over...
Don't quote me
Moshe Cohen is based in Manchester, England. He had a small wine business from 1999 until 2007 when he decided...
Hemming's spittoon
Now that the detumescent 2016 en primeur campaign has passed its climax, mostly to the eye-rolling indifference of its weary...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also UK wine trade faces up to Brexit...
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See this guide to our coverage of 2016 Bordeaux. This – boo hoo – is the last tasting article of...
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