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. View C&B Wine Trips: where to eat in Bordeaux in a larger map Le Noailles 12 Allée de Tourny, 33300 Bordeaux Tel: +33 5 56 81...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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),...
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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...
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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,...
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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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Petrus and Slow Roasted Chicken in Hong Kong

On Friday night I was asked along to dinner by George & Kathy Tong, old friends of Corney & Barrow, who had reserved a table at the Shatin Clubhouse of the Hong Kong Jockey Club as the famed 3* Michelin Chef Alain Passard was in town as guest chef for...
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2007 Bordeaux….what’s it all about?

With the dust settled on the Bordeaux 2009 campaign and the tumbleweed month of August out of the way we decided it would be a good idea to look at the ugly duckling vintage of the last 5 years – 2007. So why taste now? Well, firstly the wines are now...
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