Bordeaux – five recent verticals

This is the first article in a series for our Bordeaux Week. Coming up is a look at some good value 2005 red bordeaux, Lindsay Hamilton (ex Farr Vintners) on La Conseillante and a look at the increasingly busy world of Hubert de Boüard de Laforest of Ch Angélus.

You quite rightly ask for more tasting notes on older wines that you might have in your cellars to supplement the regular torrent of en primeur notes published here, most recently on the Bordeaux 2007s in which no-one seems desperately interested. With that in mind, I went along to a tasting organised...