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 ...
Tag: Grand-Puy-Lacoste
1996 Grand-Puy-Lacoste and friends
It has been a good couple of weeks. The 1996 Grand-Puy-Lacoste was so good that it warrants a post to itself, and may well get one. In the meantime I have been...
2012 Bordeaux: Pauillac
Now we are on the gas. I love Pauillac. Latour, Lafite, Mouton, the Pichons, GPL, Lynch (I’ll publish notes and scores on the first growths in a couple of day...
The 2013 Bordeaux vintage: vins de bistro
500 words on 2013 Bordeaux. Because it’s like a punishment.. There are tastings that you go to where, a few wines in, you divine that you could have written t...