Following on from our list of top-scoring Bordeaux 2015s, as well as those that pulled at our team’s heartstrings, we have put together a wish-list of wines which we think offer the best value, whether Cru Bourgeois or Classed Growth. Ch. Angludet, Margaux – 16.5/20 What a lovely, rich and fresh wine. Ch. Angludet is […]

Looking beyond the wines that ticked boxes and scored the highest, here we present the wines from Bordeaux 2015 that really set our team’s hearts aflutter, and whose prices we hope will do the same. Ch. Haut-Bailly, Pessac-Léognan – 17.5/20 The nose here is as seductive as ever. With refined, creamy black cherry and redcurrant […]

What is a Cru Classé – a Classed Growth? Why do parts of Bordeaux have a rigid pecking-order, and others not? In an extract from our Wine School’s introductory book Exploring & Tasting Wine, Martin Hudson MW explains. In 1855 the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce drew up a new classification of the red wines of […]

Dan Jago has recently returned (just about in one piece) from his tasting trip to Bordeaux. From his vinous highlights to the “enormous fun and very hard work” of a Berry Bros. & Rudd trip, here he gives his insights into tasting 2015. When I climbed aboard the Berry Bros. & Rudd minibus to make […]