France, Bordeaux: 2020 Primeurs - Châteaux La Conseillante & Figeac

Anyone 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....

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France, Bordeaux: Primeurs/Futures Report: The 2020 Vintage — Mister In-Between

If 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....

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France, Bordeaux: 2018 in Bottle Part 2 — Finding Value

There 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....

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France, Bordeaux: 2018 Bordeaux in Bottle — Extreme Wines

What is glaringly apparent when tasting the bottled 2018 wines is that the pinnacles of greatness all boiled down to location, location, location....

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My 2020 Wine Discoveries: Lisa Perrotti-Brown

I 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....

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Best of 2019 Bordeaux En Primeurs: Top 25 Good-Value Buys (All Under $35)

There’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....

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Best of Bordeaux 2019 En Primeurs: The 20 Top-Scoring Wines

Your definitive list of the 20 wines that received the highest scores of all 2019 Bordeaux En Primeur wine reviews and ratings thus far....

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France, Bordeaux: 2019 En Primeur Report – The Miracle Vintage

Here’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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France, Bordeaux: The 2017s in Bottle

Out 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...

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Talking Trade - Bordeaux Shines

The top traded wine by both value and volume was Margaux 2009....

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