2013 Bordeaux: out of the traps
Firstly: let’s put this barrel-tasting thing into perspective: Late last year I was in Bordeaux. The director of a fairly high-profile chateau was showing me a...
Tag: bordeaux en primeur
See you next Tuesday
A brief post: time is of the essence. Which is rather the point here. A few months back, a customer commented to me that fine wine had become “just another poo...
2011 Bordeaux: classed growth commodity and a calculator
As far as en-primeur “campaigns” go, the first growths generally make the noise towards the end of the sales season – late June; sometimes early July. It’s a c...
2011 Ch. Cos d’Estournel, St Estephe
There’s nothing like a week in Bordeaux if you need your cynicism topped up. I rarely need this, indeed I need frequent trips to Burgundy to do the opposite – ...
2011 Bordeaux
In the last few years the noise surrounding a Bordeaux en-primeur release has got louder and louder. We’ve always had the merchants shouting – this is fair eno...