Harvest Chronicle A week in Bordeaux for the 2009 harvest: sunny skies and patient pickings… By Panos Kakaviatos Before you plow through my copious notes on Bordeaux 2009 – hundreds from cru bourgeois level to the first growths of the Medoc – please plow through my day-to-day impressions at various châteaux on location at the […]

During a wine tasting class in Bordeaux back in 1998, I remember our class trying three glasses of the same wine – and everyone thought they were three different wines. Why? The temperatures were different. Wine can taste different when it is served too warm or too cold. By the same token, you can appreciate […]

Tasting notes: Merlot Madness / Where Cabernet rules / Reds and Whites in Graves and Sauternes If you have never tried Bordeaux before, it is certainly time to invest in a case or two. All smiles at Château d’Yquem, at left, at the beginning of the barrel tastings in early April 2006, because the vintage […]