Category: Bordeaux Wine

Charming, focused and fresh: Bordeaux 2015

With a “wow” tasting to rival that of Ch. Palmer, and wines which continue to surprise in their focus and charm, the team’s second day of tasting Bordeaux 2015 revealed more about how the enigmatic 2015s are shaping up Today’s lesson was clear: it is going to be very hard to compare the 2015s to […]

Bordeaux 2015: Merlot’s moment?

Our man in Bordeaux – Jonathan White – reports on day one of the team’s week tasting Bordeaux 2015 en primeur, with preliminary thoughts on the importance of Merlot, how the vintage compares to 2005, 2009 and 2010 and the finesse exhibited thus far. We arrived in Bordeaux wondering just how good the 2015 vintage […]

Bordeaux 2015: an eastern assessment

In between tasting the 2015s, Nicholas Pegna – Asia Director – considers how the Asian markets will approach the new vintage from Bordeaux. Whilst reflecting on the prospects for Bordeaux 2015, I have been thinking about how Bordeaux as a brand is faring, especially from an Asian perspective. The recent years since the great pair […]

Bordeaux 2015: from the barrel

As the first day of tasting Bordeaux 2015 en primeur gets underway, Simon Staples considers the art of tasting wine from barrel and the new vintage’s potential. New moleskin notebook? Check. Thesaurus with highlighted alternatives to the word “blackcurranty”? (Don’t bother looking, there aren’t any, I just checked.) No white shirts, tan chinos or ties […]