Tag: bordeaux en primeur
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Bordeaux 2023 En Primeur Preview: Our Annual Pilgrimage
Mesdames, messieurs… Bonjour! As you read this, we are currently en route to Manchester Airport for the next chapter of our annual Bordeaux pilgrimage and another intensive week of Châteaux visits with the Union des Grands Crus (UGC) to taste the 2023 vintage from barrel. Believe me, Bordeaux En Primeur is not for the faint-hearted; the days ...
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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 1 and 2: Let the tastings begin!
Day 1 (Saturday 21st April) Waking up on Saturday morning, if it wasn’t for the crooking bull frogs I could have been back in Yorkshire as the rain was pouring down over Bordeaux Lac. The first appointment was on the Right Bank with my old friend, Martin Krajewski, at Château Séraphine in Pomerol, where we also tasted his St. Émilion estate: ...
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Bordeaux 2021 En Primeur Report
Climatic conditions There is no denying 2021 was a cool, and complicated growing season from beginning to end in Bordeaux. Quite simply, winter was cold and wet, followed by a mild spell in very early April that encouraged an advanced bud-break. Sadly, a devastating frost that covered most of the region during the nights of 7th and 8th April ...