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Bordeaux 2010 En Primeur Tastings – Day 3

The wheels on the bus...sorry no need to break into song...got into action at 7am and by 7.35 we were outside Branaire Ducru to taste with Patrick Maroteaux. We had tasted at Branaire the day before as part of the UGC, but it is better to taste in isolation and...

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...

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...

On Bordeaux 2009 prices

The barrage of releases tend to render blogging instantly out of date so rather than give my thoughts on every release - that’s what the email offers and twitter are for - I thought I would summarise at what I guess is the moment when things are about to go...