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Verkostungsberichte The top St-Émilions from 2011 to 2018 tasted blind – 48 in all. Above, Jean-Philippe Delmas, responsible for the wines...

Verkostungsberichte A rare 23-vintage vertical. Image above by Cécile Perrinet Lhermitte. This well-known St-Émilion property’s wines were shown off in London...

Verkostungsberichte You asked for more vertical tastings of notable Bordeaux châteaux. We are always keen to oblige – along with some...

Verkostungsberichte A range of super seconds that are (mostly) ready to drink. I hosted a tasting for the most extraordinary London...

Verkostungsberichte In response to members' requests for more vertical tastings of popular Bordeaux châteaux we offer a look at 21st-century Talbot...

Verkostungsberichte How did this first growth perform during this difficult decade for Bordeaux? Above is the artwork for the label of...

Verkostungsberichte Was Alfred Tesseron's embrace of biodnamics justified? James Lawther MW finds out. In 2005 Alfred Tesseron, owner of Ch Pontet-Canet...

Verkostungsberichte Two women presented a second growth to two women – with admirable results. Julia and I selflessly undertook, in stereo...

Verkostungsberichte James Lawther MW, who did such a splendid job tasting 2019 bordeaux primeurs for us, presents a profile, with vertical...

Verkostungsberichte Château Dutruch Grand Poujeaux is one of those wines that well-educated lovers of Bordeaux have probably heard of but may...

Verkostungsberichte See also Lafite's new chatelaine. I’ve been around so long, and have been such a keen traveller, that it takes...

Verkostungsberichte Today, as Bordeaux's primeurs week begins, with Julia hard at work on your behalf, we published an account of a...

Verkostungsberichte A ‘fertile hunting ground’ is how Jancis described Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux in her article last week on Nine affordable...

Verkostungsberichte The visit and tasting that always stays most sharply in my memory after a Bordeaux primeurs week is with François...

Verkostungsberichte Tom Munro wrote recently about The other Bordeaux, the Bordeaux outside the favoured elite of classed growths where all sorts...

Verkostungsberichte See also part one of Tom Munro's series on The other Bordeaux, published today. Over the last two decades there...