This essay offers an extensive personal overview of Bordeaux’s state of the art in 2023, informed by 15 weeks of visits to over 500 châteaux over the last calendar year....
Read MoreWhile I taste and review thousands of young wines throughout the year, it’s older bottles that I most often reach for at home. This installment reflects a year’s domestic drinking....
Read MoreMy focus in this report is on bottled wines, mostly from the excellent 2018 vintage. Let the good times roll!...
Read MoreThis small report includes some tasting notes of recently released wines....
Read MoreThis short report is highlighted by reviews of two producers from Gigondas: Domaine Saint Damien and Domaine des Bosquets....
Read MoreYour definitive list of the 20 wines that received the highest scores of all 2019 Bordeaux En Primeur wine reviews and ratings thus far....
Read MoreCédric Bouchard works with the lowest yields in Champagne and fashions some of the region’s greatest wines from vineyards that no one had ever heard of....
Read MoreOut of the gate, many of the 2017s possess bags of perfume, freshness and vivacity. We have not seen this caliber of medium-bodied, bright, cheery, delicately styled Bordeaux wines in...
Read MoreEven after various European Union initiatives, the sprawling Languedoc still includes vast areas of vineyard acreage. And while at one time, the purpose of these vineyards was to simply satisfy...
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