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 vintage, and it was released at a time when a few merchants had seemingly given up trying to sell Bordeaux.
Continue reading →The whole point of the UGC tasting this year was thrown out, missed, lost – everything – by the organisers. The whole point of the UGC tasting in London, the tasting of the most recently-bottled vintage, is for the wine trade to go out and socialize with their peers.
Continue reading →A bit of a compromise here: there is very little gadgetry behind Vinolent so it’s a cut and paste job. The scores are what they are. I’d rather describe wine than score wine but it’s part of the deal these days. The wines are listed in order of score (sort of), a couple of which […]
Continue reading →2014 Duhart-Milon was released last week. Working on margins that make a wine merchant wonder why they didn’t work harder at school, it is offered in the UK at £400 per dozen bottles in bond. Which is €42 a bottle off the negociants. Even with well-bought euros the margin struggles to get into two figures. […]
Continue reading →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 so much more than juice. 1996 Latour was at this stage once, as was 1982 Pichon-Lalande. Just as my son could once fit into […]
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