Southwold 2014s tasting – right-bank reds
Thursday 1 March 2018
See Southwold 2014s tasting – left-bank reds and Southwold 2014s tasting – whites, as well as this guide to all of our coverage of Bordeaux 2014.
The shock of the entire Southwold tasting was that the St-Émilions were more impressive than the Pomerols, right up to the top echelons of the right bank. I'll be writing more about this unusual phenomenon on Saturday.
The right-bank flights (six of the 16 red-wine flights) threw up some of the bargains of the tasting – not least because organisers Farr Vintners thew in some of their favourites and/or exclusivities. I was...
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