Tag: Bordeaux

The Southwold Tasting: evaluating a vintage

Every year the wine trade’s leading Bordeaux experts meet to assess the most recent vintage to reach our shores in bottle: this year it was the turn of Bordeaux 2015. Philip Moulin explains how the Southwold Tasting works and why it matters

What to drink in 2019: Bordeaux

As 2019 stretches out ahead of us, our Cellar Plan Manager Tom Cave offers the initial instalment of our ever-popular series on the vintages to crack open over the coming months, looking first at two decades’ worth of Claret

A life less ordinary: Kate Boxer

Today sees the launch of our latest limited-edition Good Ordinary Claret label, with celebrated British artist Kate Boxer following in the footsteps of Luke Edward Hall and Sir Paul Smith. Emily Miles visited Kate in her studio to talk about family, food and the bucolic beauty of Sussex

The lion of Las Cases

As the new vintage of our own-label St Julien – made by the team at Ch. Léoville-Las Cases – touches down, Cellar Plan Manager Tom Cave considers the unique charms of this famous property