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Bordeaux 2023 in bottle – the crus bourgeois
Julia Harding MW
Wednesday 24 December 2025
• 7 min read
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Bordeaux 2023 in bottle – the grands crus
Andy Howard MW
Tuesday 23 December 2025
• 9 min read
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The Smart Traveller's Wine Guides – book reviews
Ben Colvill
Monday 22 December 2025
• 1 min read
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From €8.03, 14.59 Swiss francs and $21.99 7 Sep – and 'PeteonTweet' tells me that it's available at Carrefour as...
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Mention Ch Larose-Trintaudon to one of Bordeaux's 'aristocracy of the cork' and they look decidedly supercilious. For years this cru...
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Every time we drive into the local town, we pass one of the biggest bulk wine suppliers of the region...
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I wonder how cheap own-label sherry would have become if the sherry producers hadn't naughtily ganged up and decided to...
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The 2009 primeur campaign is far from over in mainland China. We will be reporting at greater length on the...
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I have long thought that vineyards and cellars are extremely vulnerable to criminal intent. Anyone with a grudge against an...
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In 1989 first growths, more or less, Jancis tasted a clutch of top 1989s as they were in 2002. When...
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Hot on the heels of Fine & Rare's useful graphs of price movements of individual red Bordeaux comes fine-wine trader...
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London fine-wine trader Fine & Rare has just launched an awfully cute new online tool, the ability to chart the...
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I suppose I should add to the title of this article, 'and so do I'. Yesterday Mark Walford of Richards...
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We finish our week devoted to Mature Bordeaux with an account of some of the most famous red bordeaux of...
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The following notes were taken at a super-luxurious comparative tasting hosted by Christie's in London back in November 2005. I'm...
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Most of my tasting notes are taken at professional tastings, increasingly straight on to a laptop, e-notebook or even occasionally...
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I'm currrently trying to juggle appointments and tastings all over the left and right banks in the Gironde at the...
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Our second offer in this Older Bordeaux Week focuses on one of the most distinctive and traditional properties on the...
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We start our Older Bordeaux Week with a look at two of my favourite properties whose wines can offer so...
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