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’Issan and Malartic-Lagravière on the left bank and Trottevielle on the right.
Continue reading →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 the 1989…) So after what is almost certainly my best wine of 2015 (more to follow) I thought that I was most likely done for […]
Continue reading →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 being opened I was fairly certain that I would be meeting St Peter much sooner than I had hoped. Thankfully I was wrong. Meeting him this way was […]
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