1996 and all that
If, like me, you started your fine wine journey in the late 1990s, then 1996 will have been the first serious vintage that came onto the radar. The clarets wer...
Tag: Pichon-Lalande
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...
2014 Bordeaux: my top three
In spite of its failings – which are many – I love en-primeur. The excitement of a new wine. The birth, if you like, of wines that will develop into something...