2019 Bordeaux | Southwold on Thames
2019 seems a lifetime ago. The world was different. Europe was different. I was different. More pertinently, the 2019 Bordeaux vintage is/was one that I was ...
Category: Notas
2010 Bordeaux | The Battlefield
In 2011, a wine writer by the name of John Gilman published his review of the 2010 Bordeaux vintage. He titled it: “The Very, Very Ripe, Very, Very, Very Tanni...
2016 Bordeaux – Southwold (on Thames)
So: what makes a great vintage? A trickier question than you might think. Which is why it was all so much easier when Big Bob was around. Because – let’s be ...
The Sun Rising: 2009 Latour
Last week I tasted through just under 170 wines from the 2009 Bordeaux vintage. A full report is here. In the meantime a few words on something rather special....
More White Wine: Ente & Coche
Back in the olden days, and the olden days are always the best ones (or, rather, were) my then employers were the UK representatives of one Mr Arnaud Ente. Burg...