By Caitlin Ferguson, vinotecalondon.wordpress.com/
The star
Last summer, I wrote my final WSET Diploma exam, consisting of two parts – a blind tasting of 12 wines, followed by 3 hours of theory. The theory section was particularly daunting, considering you know you could be faced with questions regarding ANY aspect of the global (still) wine …
By Gal Zohar
Haut Brion Horizontal
Some lunch breaks are better than others and some are really special. Last Wednesday I was amongst the lucky few who found themselves seated in our boardroom turned serious wine tasting space. The special occasion was an horizontal wine tasting of the 2004 vintage from Chateau Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion. A …
(Above: those imposing Tourelles at Pichon)
Our last day in Bordeaux. Just a few hours to finalise our impressions of the 2008 vintage before the long trip home. We had just a handful of appointments: Grand Puy Lacoste & Pichon-Baron in the Medoc followed by Haut-Brion and Smith Haut Lafitte way down in Pessac. It all looked so simple.
It should have been so simple.
In the end, it was anything …
Wine bores are always banging on about the nirvana of tasting old wines, experiencing a bit of history, imagining what was happening in a world gone by as these very grapes were ripening. Whole books get written about ancient vintages of this and that and the exhilaration of tasting from battered, deformed bottles. ‘Elixir’ seems to be a word used a lot in these circumstances. ‘Primordial’ as well. …
