2023 Bordeaux
I used to love Bordeaux EP. Genuinely love it. The excitement, the sales, the commercial birth of a new vintage from the most important wine region in the world.
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 Phil and Lubes, and – finally – redemption. A proper rollercoaster, which found me in April 2021 tasting cask samples of 2020 Bordeaux in a rather nice garden…
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 almost totally unfamiliar with until a year or so ago, and one that I was not totally up on until a few days ago.
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 took place on the 12th and 13th February when, I believe, we had little or no idea just what was in the pipe. Reading it through…
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 Tannic 2010 Vintage In Bordeaux-Miraculously, Some Great Wines Found Alive On the Battlefield”.