En Primeur: Tasting Margaux, Haut Medoc, Listrac, Moulis 2011 Vintage
... so here I am, a Chateau Fourcas Dupre, tasting an incredible line-up of more than forty wines. The day started off as every day should ... in a Relais & Chateau hotel called Chateau Cordeillan Bages owned by the Cazes family. It is an incredible and very elegant hotel. Chateau Fourcas Dupre is a...
Missing En Primeurs
Unfortunately, I have developed a nasty cold and will not be able to attend En Primeurs. I was able to move my flight to May and I will be in Bordeaux during the week of the Weekend des Grand Crus, an event I have always wanted to attend. Hopefully, ...
Visiting Chateau Figeac
"I'm having a vertical tasting of Figeac!" said a friend in an email. I responded so quickly I did not realize the tasting was in Philadelphia, and I live in New York! The opportunity to taste several vintages of this famous chateau is intoxicating ... ... and I love history and a good story almost...
Visiting Le Sources de Caudalie
I'm excited to once again visit Le Sources de Caudalie during En Primeur, a gorgeous luxury resort with a top restaurant and healing, relaxing spa about thirty minutes from the main city of Bordeaux. (You can read my previous posts about the spa, the restaurant, the resort, and its founders Florence and Daniel Cathiard...
Bordeaux Review For En Primeur
One of the benefits of being a Master of Wine student is an "introductory" trip to Bordeaux, where students have the opportunity to meet the winemakers and learn more about the region. In preparation for En Primeur 2012, I scanned my computer for some old notes from this visit. They are replicated here. Chateau LaGrange...
Visiting Chateau Cordeillan Bages, Luxury Hotel Association with Lynch Bages
Very soon I will visit Chateau Cordeillan Bages! It is an 18th century chartreuse house converted into a luxury hotel and restaurant, where Michelin starred Chef Jean-Luc Rocha's inventive cuisine, is paired with the wines of Chateau Lynch-Bages and perhaps another winery owned by the Cazes family, Château Ormes de Pez in Saint-Estèphe. As much...
Château Palmer Rolls Out New Music Site
Château Palmer is well-known for the wonderful concerts they host and their unique program of inviting world-renown Jazz artists to compose music to pair with each vintage (separate music for their first and second wines). They have now compiled the...
Chateau Biston Brillette 2006: A Winning Bordeaux from the Medoc in a 90-Point Vintage
Subscribe to Cynthia’s free newsletter The classic elegance of the Chateau Biston Brillette label Shimmery, garnet robe and dark berry fruit that is perfectly balanced with its tannins, this wine is real Bordeaux class. Chateau Biston Brillette is on my Top Ten list of my favorite Petits Chateaux, and I’ve sampled hundreds. Biston Brillette is...
Wine 101: Carmenère
Most of you are probably already aware of the phylloxera epidemic that ransacked Europe vineyards starting in 1867. One Bordeaux grape, Carmenère was particularly susceptible to the louse. The epidemic was finally alleviated when viniferia vines were ...
The Line Drawn by the ’82 Bordeaux
The soaring trajectory of interest in wine owes much to revolutions in technology, transportation, communications and food in general, but it all traces back to 1982.
UGCB Finishes Up Successful Tasting in Brazil
Last week we wrote about the Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux tasting in Brazil. Stopping in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, the tasting was a huge success. Brazil is a challenging market for Bordeaux, while there is an appetite for good wine, the tax ...
Wine Tasting Video: Assorted Red Bordeaux
Dourthe Cour du Roy Montagne St Emilion 2010 (£12.99 selected Co-operative stores) Rich round style of Bordeaux, juicy, full and fleshy, with gutsy plummy and baked berry flavour backed up by smoky bacon oak, just let down by overextraction, which acc...
