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 ...
Tag: Southwold
The Last Post
Was my take on 2010 Bordeaux from bottle, posted on March 28th 2020, two days after lockdown measures legally came into force in the UK. The tasting it covered ...
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 ...
2009 Bordeaux – Ten Years On
Sometime in April 2010 I was enjoying a lager with my good friend and former colleague, Clarethound, in the bar at the Mercure Chartrons. Lager is the winetast...