Bordeaux assortment

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See Sorting through the assortments for a guide to the many collections of tasting notes already published and details of those four yet to come.

There are more than 100 tasting notes on recently tasted bordeaux below, most of them, unsurprisingly, red. I have been following Bordeaux's fortunes for almost 40 years and have never seen them at a more critical stage than now. The Bordeaux wine market has always been cyclical, which may be providing those most closely associated with it a dangerous sense of complacency. Bordeaux has always been more or less fashionable, but I have never encountered...