Caroline Frey is owner and head winemaker at Paul Jaboulet Aîné in the Rhône, Château La Lagune in Bordeaux and a domaine in Burgundy – she also has vines in the Swiss Valais. What has she learned from the people and the land of these diverse wine regions? Here, Alexandra Gray de Walden finds out. […]

With En Primeur in full swing, it can be easy to think about Bordeaux purely in terms of prices, allocations and logistics. But there’s more to the region than business. Here, we meet the faces behind four of Bordeaux’s best-known châteaux. Château Léoville Barton, St Julien Damien Barton Sartorius “People get way more excited about […]

There are wines worth buying outside Bordeaux’s major communes in 2022, says Mark Pardoe MW – if you know where to look. Here, our Wine Director offers some highlights from Moulis-en-Médoc, the wider Médoc peninsula and the sometimes-overlooked Francs-Côtes de Bordeaux. In a nutshell: the mark of a great year is when all levels of […]

Reds from Pessac-Léognan 2022 In some ways, the wines of Pessac-Léognan have the best of both worlds this year. The strength of the tannins from the Cabernet Sauvignon is (mostly) counterbalanced by the juiciness of the Merlot. And the more assertive expressions of freshness found in the Médoc are more moderated and integrated here. The […]