Corinne Conroy sent over this great video interview with Henri Lurton, from Chateau Brane-Cantenac, on Tv7. The interview, which is...
Revisiting 2009 Chateau Angludet
Chateau Angludet is a property in the Margaux region that does not get much attention, despite beng one of the oldest properties in the region. With all the great wines in the region, it is sometimes easy to overlook wines that are very good, but not ...
2009 Château Rauzan-Ségla: New Label, Same Great Wine
Château Rauzan-Ségla has gotten a lot of press for their new Karl Lagerfeld designed label; which, I must admit, is pretty nice. The label is certainly fashionable enough to live up to parent company CHANEL's high standards. In fact they sent out ...
Bordeaux 2009 Vintage Tasting in New York
This past Wednesday I was invited to the Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux 2009 Vintage Tasting in New York. It was a great time, and I have quite a few posts planned over the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, I put together this quick ...
Bordeaux battle of the business schools — to the victors go the nobly rotten
The business school students sniffed, swirled and spit the three glasses of Sauternes in front of them. They had come from places like Columbia, Northwestern, Stanford, and Harvard to sit under the tableaux and tapestries at the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue, try wines and answer questions, competing to win the big prize: making it...
Is this what they teach about “rare vintage claret” in business school?
A parody from the BBC show “Mitchell and Webb.” Merger!
Making Good Use of Pruned Vines
Château Haut-Bailly posted the following on their Facebook page:Pruning results in bundles of vine wood, very convenient to make tasty barbecues in summer! // A tous les Bordelais gourmands : pourquoi ne pas anticiper les grillades estivales et venir ...
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Château Ormes de Pez, 2005
Hunger is a great sauce, as certain chefs keep reminding me. I wonder how that pie tasted to Magwitch, the one that Pip selflessly stole? It formed the thesis for an entire Dickens novel, such is the power of food, and feelings. After 3 weeks on the prison ship of abstinence, does wine taste any...
Damn, This Was Good! (10 & 11)
Here are notes on two terrific French white wines we took to dinner at Restaurant Iris in Memphis. Great meal, too, and thanks to our generous friend Allison Jacob, editor and publisher of CorkIt! magazine, for bringing the splendid Eagles Trace Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2005, Napa Valley. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Chateau La Louvière, fortuitously located in the...
Wine Tasting Video: 2005 Red Bordeaux
Chateau Maine-Martin Bordeaux Supérieur Vieilles Vignes 2005 (£8.55 Caves de Pyrene) Graceful, cedary, mature claret, more on the berry (red and black) than blackcurrant side, supple and with a leafy vibrancy, still a touch of chewy tannin but not fo...
2008 Bordeaux vintage revisited
I had an opportunity to taste some 2008 Bordeaux this weekend.
A year ago, they were inpenetrable, unenjoyable, and hard for me to judge. Here is what I wrote then:
...generally I didn't enjoy any of the 2008's. Very tight and ungiving, many with gree...
