Old World 2 New World 3

The second formal session of last week's MW symposium in Bordeaux gave participants a chance to compare pairs of wines from Old and New Worlds made by some of the world's best-known producers who flit between the two. Read more about it in MW symposium Bordeaux – part 1. Below are notes on the wines presented. It certainly wasn't clear that the Old World 'beat' the New.

ARNAUD BOURGEOIS

Henri Bourgeois, Clos Henri Sauvignon Blanc 2008 Marlborough 16 Drink 2009-11
Greywacke soil which is very stony, and also Wither soils. Arnaud points out that they used their Sancerre experience of...