2012 Bordeaux: the wines of the vintage
Vintages like 2012 – which is to say tricky ones – set the men from the boys apart. Sure, there are over-performers: Capbern-Gasqueton, Batailley, Lagrange, d’...
Tag: Petrus
2012 Barbera Conterno
You’d have thought that a magnum of 1990 Pétrus would be a tough act to follow. Certainly very, very hard to beat (though Neal Martin says that I should try th...
1990 Pétrus – meeting St Peter
This piece (?) was originally posted on the Renaissance Vintners blog. What I didn’t mention there is that, well, just over 24 hours prior to this bottle...