Pictured above is the bridge in Libourne that crosses the Dordogne river. It's a familiar landmark for those stopping off to taste the J P Moueix wines on the quay as they charge around the Bordeaux region in primeurs season, though it looks rather sad here in the grey and rainy weather that dogged the week that Julia spent there.
TASTING ARTICLES (most recently published first)
Southwold 2017s – whites 6 October 2021
Southwold 2017s – left-bank reds 5 October 2021
Southwold 2017s – right-bank reds 4 October 2021
UGC 2017s in bottle, part 2 – Graves and the right bank 6 November 2019
UGC 2017s in bottle, part 1 – Médoc and sweet whites 5 November 2019
Crus bourgeois 2017 selection 23 October 2019
Bordeaux 2018 tasted with preceding vintages 23 May 2019
Bordeaux's last four vintages compared 22 May 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – Haut-Médoc and Médoc 26 April 2018 and augmented 30 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017– Pauillac 27 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – St-Julien 27 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – St-Estèphe 27 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – Margaux, Moulis, Listrac 26 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – AOC Bordeaux and Côtes, Fronsac 25 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – Pessac-Léognan and Graves reds 25 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – Pomerol, Lalande-de-Pomerol 25 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – St-Émilion and satellites 24 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – dry whites 23 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – sweet whites 23 April 2018
GENERAL ARTICLES (most recently published first)
How do the last four Bordeaux vintages compare? (Free for all) 25 May 2019
An existential crisis for Bordeaux en primeur (Free for all) 21 June 2018
Bordeaux's 2017 en primeur campaign – how did it go? (Don't quote me) 19 June 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – what the trade thinks (Free for all) 26 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 primeurs report – part 2 (Inside information) 24 April 2018
Bordeaux 2017 primeurs report – part 1 (Inside Information) 23 April 2018
What price Bordeaux 2017? (Don't quote me) 18 April 2018
Blatch on Bordeaux 2017 – the stats (Inside information) 27 March 2018
Blatch on Bordeaux 2017 – the wines (Free for all) 22 March 2018
Blatch on Bordeaux 2017 – the vines (Free for all) 15 March 2018
Bordeaux 2017 shrinkage charted (Free for all) 2 March 2018
Bordeaux 2017 – harvest and weather report (Free for all) 3 November 2017
France's shrunken 2017 vintage (Free for all) 31 August 2017
Bordeaux 2017 – mapping the frost (Free for all) 30 May 2017
Frosted Bordeaux – a damage assessment (Free for all) 5 May 2017
