Crystal Palace v Nantes
It was pretty dull really, especially so in the second half. We miss Olise and, if Mateta goes cold, it’s going to be a long season. The evening that fo...
Category: Notas
2020 Bordeaux – Southwold on Thames
2020: there is so much I could say about the year itself, most of it revolving around desperation, sunshine, looking into the abyss, golf with Frenchie, Big Phi...
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 ...
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 ...