2008 Bordeaux – relative value
A month or so after the annual Southwold tasting, a similar group join up for the annual “Ten Years On” tasting. This year was thus the time for the 2008 Borde...
Category: Vinous
Château Pavie
If you are a particular sort of wine merchant there are certain wines that you are not supposed to like. Nor are you supposed to encourage your customers to bu...
Southwold on Thames: 2014 Bordeaux from bottle
I’ve always thought the 2014 Bordeaux vintage to be a bit of a sleeper, by which I mean it’s a vintage that lies a little under the radar. It’s not a shouty vi...
2016 Burgundy by Olivier Bernstein
After months of inactivity, we are off. It hasn’t been writers’ block, more a lack of anything interesting to write about and, to a not inconsiderable degree, a...
Lorne Restaurant
Let’s get the wine stuff out of the way, shall we? 2015 Bordeaux, shown to the trade from bottle last Wednesday courtesy of the Union des Grands Crus de B...