By Rob Pickard
Whilst trying our best to taste as much as possible from the stunning array of 2010’s on offer at this week’s Bibendum Bordeaux 2010 En Primeur Tasting. We cornered a few producers to hear their views on the 2010 vintage and these outstanding wines.
Check out the videos below for an insight into Bordeaux 2010 from Chateau Pontet-Canet, Chateau Suduiraut and …
By Rob Pickard
After yesterday’s set-up post, live from Lord’s, Bibendum’s Bordeaux Tasting quickly gathered pace, and was packed with 900 Bordeaux fans and over 90 of the region’s finest producers.
After all the hype surrounding the 2009s, 2010 had big boots to fill, but it was obvious tasting the wines that it has filled these, and then some!…
By Rob Pickard
It’s that time of year again, and we’ve all headed up the road to Lord’s Cricket Ground in sunny St John’s Wood for Bibendum’s Bordeaux 2010 En Primeur Tasting. The Bordelais are in town and armed to the teeth with the 2010 vintage, plus a few older wines to boot.
Today’s tasting is the biggest consumer Bordeaux tasting in the country, with nearly 100 …
By PK, http://sedimentblog.blogspot.com/
This is about not drinking Chateau Leoville Barton 1989. Readers unfamiliar with the Sediment blog, and its somewhat idiosyncratic approach to wine writing, may well observe that there are probably thousands of wines I could write about not drinking. But bear with me.
I was recently taken aback by a statement on the …
Wednesday was one hell of a day. With the Eyjafjallajokull eruption leaving most of the chateau owners & winemakers stranded in Bordeaux it was left to Team Bibendum to hold the fort at home of cricket (you can insert your own Ashes and Lord’s gag here). A few hardy Bordelais did make it, including Christian Seely of AXA Millesime and our hero of the hour, Anthony Barton, who flew in by private jet. Mr Barton …
After a brief hiatus, it’s back to Bordeaux 2009.
Our tasting takes place on Lord’s tomorrow, and as I write we still don’t know if the Bordelais will be able to fly from Bordeaux to London tomorrow. Fingers crossed flights will be back up and running.
Even if the flights are cancelled, the show will go on. The wine is already here, the team are ready and raring to go and we are expecting a lot of …
By David Bolomey, http://bordoverview.blogspot.com
Tasting at Chateau Saint-Pierre and Chateau Gloria
Bordeaux 2009 is not an evident Left or Right Bank vintage. At the same time many of the wines that I like are from the Left Bank this year. The appellation Saint-Julien shows a high overall standard. But more important: all Bordeaux appellations, on both river …
One of the great things about primeurs week is the chance to go behind the scenes at some of the most famous names in wine. Visiting and tasting at the First Growths is brilliant fun, partly because the wines are usually amazing and partly because one gets to experience how each chateau presents itself. These visits are one of the best bits of my job and something I know is a privilege very few wine …
By David Bolomey, http://bordoverview.blogspot.com
Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte
Bordeaux 2009. Last week Jan van Roekel and I visited Bordeaux, running from the one château to the other to taste the young 2009 vintage. After the many signs of an unparalleled vintage our expectations were… high.
And yes, it was a joy to discover Bordeaux 2009. At the same time it was good to taste all …
It is over a week since we touched down at Luton Airport following our trip to Bordeaux, and I’ve spent most of that time writing up the notes. How time flies when you are having fun. I’ve just handed a whopping 12,500 words over to our designers to put our offer brochure together and will start loading up the copy up to our website tomorrow.
I’m not the only one who has been writing up notes …
