Last week I tasted through just under 170 wines from the 2009 Bordeaux vintage. A full report is here. In the meantime a few words on something rather special. On a wine that has made me stop and think. 2009 Château Latour.
Continue reading →Vintages like 2012 – which is to say tricky ones – set the men from the boys apart. Sure, there are over-performers: Capbern-Gasqueton, Batailley, Lagrange, d’Issan and Malartic-Lagravière on the left bank and Trottevielle on the right.
Continue reading →One of the most famous, most photographed, spots in the vinous world is, probably, the bottom left corner of the Romanée-Conti vineyard. There are probably a couple of tourists there now. I wonder what they’re looking at? The inscription on the wall? The vines? The soil? Themselves? I wonder what they’re thinking. Drive up past […]
Continue reading →Anyone for a legend? I knew that these three would be good: there was no question at all about that, but, like the man himself, there is that final sparkle that sets brilliance above the merely excellent. In the same way that great wines don’t need long notes, Barry Phillips needs little introduction. Whilst it […]
Continue reading →Another mentor here; indeed mentor number one. The man who gave me my first real job, my break, in the wine trade and a man who has taught me a great deal since. And a man – rare at his level in the wine trade – whose ego doesn’t come into the room at the […]
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