As Jonathan White returns home from a week’s exploratory tasting in Bordeaux, he sums up the team’s sentiments towards the 2014 vintage. In the role of merchants we have always positioned ourselves as the closest link between the people who make the wine and those who drink it. When we signed the open letter from UK […]

In his penultimate post from Bordeaux Jonathan White recounts the team’s fourth day tasting the 2014 wines and reflects on the quality of the vintage. As we made our way to Northern Pauillac and St Estèphe on Thursday morning, I couldn’t help but marvel at how tidy the vineyards were and consider the amount of […]

At the end of his third day in Bordeaux Jonathan White praises the quality of the 2014 vintage and its truly unusual character. I have mentioned in other posts about the weather during the growing season, but I wanted to emphasise just how extraordinary it was in Pauillac: records were broken for the wettest January and […]

Following his second day in the region, Jonathan White remarks upon the unlikely character of the 2014 Bordeaux vintage, a combination of freshness and fruit; the gift of an Indian Summer. Vintage variation is one of the fundamental reasons why many of us love wine and, indeed, the wines of Bordeaux. In an age where […]