Bordeaux 2021 in bottle: ratings of many of the top wines
I don’t taste the cask samples of the new vintage of Bordeaux en primeurs, for quite a few reasons, but
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Highlights: Les Cadrans de Lassègue Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2020
Slightly surprised to see a wine this good in the Flagship AA lounge in Dallas Fort Worth Airport. It’s the
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Book review: From Bordeaux to the Stars, by J.M. Cazes
I really enjoyed reading From Bordeaux to the Stars, the English translation of Jean-Michel Cazes autobiography, initially published in 2022
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Château Haut-Bailly: one of the star properties of Bordeaux
Website: https://www.haut-bailly.com/en/home.html Haut-Bailly is consistently one of my favourite Bordeaux Châteaux, and so it was nice to taste through some
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Château-Figeac: a Saint Émilion star with its own approach
The Manoncourt family have been the custodians of Saint-Émilion star Chateau-Figeac since 1892. Much of the current reputation was built
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Highlights: Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 1996 Pauillac, Bordeaux
Grand-Puy-Lacoste was ranked as a fifth growth in the 1855 classification, but if the rankings were decided today it would
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Bordeaux en primeur: the Tinder of fine wine
It’s Bordeaux en primeur time! For two weeks, 6000 wine professionals – a mixture of merchants, journalists and various other
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Bordeaux 2020 in bottle: 106 wines tasted and rated
2020 is a much heralded vintage in Bordeaux. Here I got to try many of the top wines in bottle,
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Highlights: Château Suduiraut Vieilles Vignes Grand Blanc Sec 2020 Bordeaux
Suduiraut, a leading Sauternes producer, have decided to take dry white Bordeaux more seriously. It’s a good move: while their
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Dourthe Parcellaires: a new concept from this Bordeaux firm
This is a new series of limited edition bottlings that Dourthe have released to challenge the Bordeaux concept of blending.
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