While Bordeaux’s 2021 isn’t a great vintage, it has produced several genuinely great wines, as well as many good to excellent wines....
Read MoreWith this latest collection of notes, I’ve focused mainly on the 2020 wines that can be found for about 15-50 euros per bottle, ex-cellars....
Read MoreAnyone who has been attuned to recent changes on Bordeaux’s Right Bank will have spotted that La Conseillante and Figeac are two estates on the rise....
Read MoreIf ever I lacked the faith that you can tell all you really need to know about a wine’s growing season just by tasting it, along came 2020....
Read MoreThere are some great value wines that were made in 2018. The bargains are more prevalent on the Right Bank, particularly among top Saint-Émilion wines....
Read MoreWhat is glaringly apparent when tasting the bottled 2018 wines is that the pinnacles of greatness all boiled down to location, location, location....
Read MoreI think discoveries—of anything—should be as much about the sharing of journeys behind those discoveries as they are about unveiling that recently unearthed treasure....
Read MoreThere’s a lot of value to be had in the 2019 Bordeaux futures. Here are our top 25 picks for high-quality, good-value wine buys....
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 MoreHere’s my conspiracy theory. As I’m interviewing winemakers and château owners each year during the Primeurs period, I start to hear the same words and stories, over and over again....
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