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Bordeaux 2025 – a pivotal en primeur campaign?
Nick Martin reflects as another en primeur campaign winds up. Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste (pictured above) bundled a visit to the property with the en primeur purchase of their ‘variation case’ this...
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Christie's forthcoming London auction on 10 Dec occasioned this tasting of eight vintages of second-growth Pauillac property Château Pichon-Longueville, Comtesse...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Now that the last grapes have...
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The following complete vertical of all vintages made by owner Jean Gautreau at Ch Sociando-Mallet is based on a tasting...
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Bernard de Laage de Meux, commercial director of Château Palmer, introduced this tasting of 10 vintages of Palmer, starting with...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. An excellent new book, What Price...
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An important and extremely detailed new book, What Price Bordeaux? by Benjamin Lewin MW, comes out from what I deduce...
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From the 2008 vintage, the words Cru Bourgeois will be back on the label of wines from the Médoc. The...
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This wonderful tasting of 37 vintages back to 1964 took place at Ch Climens at the end of the Bordeaux...
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Bordeaux-based writer Jane Anson reports. Two leading Bordeaux châteaux have announced plans to build new wineries on their estates. Both...
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As we plunge into the tasting necessary to complete our forthcoming detailed survey of 2007 burgundies, here's a follow-up to...
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One of the most frequent requests we have from you is to provide notes on the wines you might have...
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I have just posted well over 100 tasting notes on the 2006 bordeaux, but of course there is very much...
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The notes below were taken last week at wine merchants Roberson on Kensington High Street, where a line-up of eight...
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Two sizeable verticals, one of St-Julien second-growth Ch Léoville Poyferré and one of its sister property Ch Le Crock in...
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The National Institute of Appellations of Origin (INAO), the official French body that oversees the appellation d’origine contrôlée system in...
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You may remember that when I took part in one of Decanter magazine’s several recent controversial reassessments of the Bordeaux...
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