Tag: Bordeaux 2022 En Primeur
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Bordeaux 2022 En Primeur Day 7: Curtain Call
On Friday morning Château d’Yquem was the curtain call to our Bordeaux 2022 En Primeur week; it’s always a real pleasure to travel south and visit this magnificent property. We tasted the 2020 vintage (they always hold back their release), which offered an impressive balance between acidity and fruit, a refreshingly and dangerously ...
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Bordeaux 2022 En Primeur Day 6: The Grand Finale
A slight lie in on Thursday morning as we were only a 35-minute drive from Château d’Issan in Margaux; a pleasure to see the sunshine at last, breaking through. The morning mist burning off as we headed over the moat and through onto one of the most impeccably kept gravel drives in the Médoc! It is always an enjoyable start to the morning with ...
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Bordeaux 2022 En Primeur Day 5: The Médoc Marathon
Wednesday began with a very early roll call leaving Bordeaux Lac at 6:30am to pick up Yorkshire Post Wine Writer, Christine Austin, en route to our 8am breakfast meeting at Château Calon Ségur. We were about ten minutes ahead of schedule, so we stopped for a quick coffee on the Pauillac quayside to make sure we were raring to go for the marathon ...
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Bordeaux 2022 En Primeur Day 4: Rocking around the Right Bank
We started the morning driving in the rain to Château Canon La Gaffelière for our 9am appointment with the charismatic Comte Stephan von Neipperg and his portfolio of wines; Clos Marsalette (Pessac-Léognan), Château d’Aiguihle (Castillon) and Clos de L’Oratoire, Canon La Gaffelière and La Mondotte (Saint-Émilion). It was surprising to ...
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Bordeaux 2022 En Primeur Day 3 : Châteaux Hopping
This morning started with a crawl through the Monday morning rush hour traffic as we made our way to the first tasting of the day (9am) at Hangar 14 in Bordeaux’s historic Chartrons district. Located on the banks of the Garonne River, this is the principal Union des Grands Crus (UGC) portfolio tasting showcasing wines of all classification levels...