Dauga of Bordeaux
Friday 9 January 2009
As we plunge into the tasting necessary to complete our forthcoming detailed survey of 2007 burgundies, here's a follow-up to yesterday's round up of notes on some of Bordeaux's more affordable bottles. See also this thread on the forum which pertains.
Fill a private dining room with fine wine, fine food and fine-tuned palates and a convivial atmosphere is bound to follow. So it was at Richard Corrigan’s new Mayfair restaurant last November, when a gaggle of wine writers assembled over dinner to taste eight different Bordeaux wines made in consultation with Olivier Dauga.
Dauga himself is the embodiment...
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