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Bordeaux Archive
Wine Trip to Bordeaux: where to eat…
A beautiful city and a food & wine paradise, Bordeaux has plenty of good restaurants to choose from. Here are the places our team visited in April 2011.
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Le Noailles
12 Allée de Tourny, 33300 Bordeaux
Tel: +33 5 56 81...
Read More Château Phélan-Ségur Vertical Tasting
The C&B tour bus pulled into Château Phélan-Ségur’s gravelled courtyard with a cloudless blue spring sky as a backdrop. Phélan-Ségur was our first stop of the day, so we were on time for once and had a few moments to take in the rows of vines stretching away from the...
Read More A Medieval Tasting at Château de Lamarque
With the inspirational philosophies of François Mitjavile ingrained in our thoughts, we headed to our next appointment. Château de Lamarque, a gem of a property in Haut-Médoc with whom we have enjoyed a long and strong vinous relationship. The drive from Saint-Emilion would take a while but as a South...
Read More “We are forbidden to create” François Mitjavile – Tertre Roteboeuf & Roc de Cambes
The C & B pilgrimage from Domaine de l’Aurage to Tertre Roteboeuf, (owned by his father, François Mitjavile) just down the road in Saint-Emilion took no time at all.
We were warmly greeted by François, escorted to the back gardens of the house and perched carefully on a wall with a dangerously...
Read More C&B Trip to Louis Mitjavile’s Domaine de l’Aurage
From immaculate topiary and raked gravel to a vineyard governed by passion alone. The contrast between the Ch. Hosanna and Domaine de l’Aurage is extreme, yet the journey is only 10 minutes by bus, and the owners are the best of friends. We were here to visit Louis Mitjavile (pictured above),...
Read More C & B descend on Bordeaux for a very spoiling 48 hours…
21 of of the C & B sales and Marketing team gathered from far & wide, early on Monday morning destined to meet some of the great and the good of Bordeaux. We boarded a Bordeaux-bound plane at the crack of dawn, full of anticipation - wondering what to expect...
Read More Notes from Hong Kong : A dinner demonstrating just how much fine wine is being drunk and enjoyed over in Asia
This is short and to the point - the line up does all the talking:
On reception:
Henri Giraud, Fut de Chêne, 1998 Champagne in magnum
White Wines:
Le Montrachet, Henri Boillot, 2000
Le Montrachet, Domaine Ramonet 1988
Red wines:
Château La Mission Haut-Brion 1989
Château Haut-Brion 1989
Clos des Lambrays 1949 in magnum
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Château Rayas 1990
Clos St Denis,...
Read More The Mitjaviles come to Town…
We've been dealing with François for over 20 years, and it has taken the last 12 of those to succeed in getting him and his delighful wife Miloute to come to London. The rough plan of attack was a tasting for "Team C&B" then a brief lunch and dinner with...
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