Now when you see this video and realize we are talking about a wine that could potentially cost $1,000 before it is even in bottle, you may think that this is just absurd. But Château Margaux really reached wonderful heights in 2009. It is easily in my top ten of the vintage, if not top [...]

I attended two wonderful master classes at yet another Decanter fine wine encounter – this time a full day concentrated on Italian wine on Saturday 15 May 2010. Almost 90 exhibitors, some rather famous, others often constituting hidden treasures. I did not taste as much as I wanted because I was slightly under the weather, [...]

17 vintages of Château Gruaud Larose spanning almost a century, from 1918 to 2009…

Check out the video report from the UK’s excellent daily newspaper The Guardian. They certainly picked some posh châteaux to feature: Mouton, Lafite, Ducru Beaucaillou and Lynch Bages… Interesting comments on the market too. Bordeaux 2009: the best wine of a generation?

I am getting ready to go to Bordeaux, and am rather excited because it was such a wonderful harvest, the wines should taste well. This will be my 7th visit to Bordeaux to taste the wines from barrel. As you can see in the video below, I am not sure that 2009 will surpass 2005 [...]

Identified as a Third Growth in the 1855 Médoc Classification, Château Palmer in Margaux has long surpassed its official status, and is counted among the very top echelon of Bordeaux estates. Its 120 acres of deep gravely stone, ideally situated near the Gironde River, create an excellent microclimate for plantings of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and [...]

Bordeaux 2007 from bottle: the best reds were the least extracted with less oak. But what you want, really, are the whites!

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 [...]