Today has seen several new releases, including Châteaux Beau-Séjour-Bécot, a wine from St-Emilion that shows exactly why the Right Bank is so well thought of in this vintage, Doisy-Daëne and Ormes de Pez. 2011 Château Doisy-Daëne, Cru Classé Barsac £147 per case of 6 bottles in bond £156 per case of 12 half bottles in [...]
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Bordeaux 2011: Suduiraut, Doisy-Vedrines, Sociando-Mallet
Tuesday 24 April 2012 – 9:45
After a day of near-silence yesterday, three releases to start today, including Château Suduiraut. The 2011 vintage is definitely one that has played into the hands of Sauternes and Barsac producers, giving them ideal conditions for the development of the botrytis that gives these wines their distinctive character. Fresh and pure, yet enticingly complex, these [...]
Bordeaux 2011: Château Lafite-Rothschild
Thursday 19 April 2012 – 16:05
Around the time of the en primeur tastings in Bordeaux, Christophe Salin, director of Barons de Rothschild was very forthright about the way in which pricing would work this year, indicating that there should be a substantial cut in price for this wine compared with last year. “With Lafite we have the luxury of being [...]
Bordeaux 2011: Château Charmail
Wednesday 18 April 2012 – 15:53
Château Charmail is always a popular wine in any vintage and the 2011 should be no different, offering classically proportioned claret at a very good price indeed. 2011 Château Charmail, Cru Bourgeois Haut-Médoc £120 per case of 12 bottles in bond Darkly fragrant on the nose, with notes of bramble and cassis fruit coming [...]
Bordeaux 2011: Lafite, Cos & Gazin
Wednesday 18 April 2012 – 10:36
Today saw the release of two of the big Châteaux, with our release of 2011 Lafite-Rothschild and Cos d’Estournel, as well as Gazin, an ever popular Pomerol. Lafite-Rothschild (£2799 for 6 bottles in bond) has been offered primarily to those clients who have expressed interest, however, please let us know if you are interested in [...]
Bordeaux 2011: Châteaux Lafite and La Tour de By
Monday 16 April 2012 – 14:50
Today has been the proverbial “game of two halves”, with releases of both Cru Bourgeois, La Tour de By and First Growth, Lafite-Rothschild. Lafite’s release price this year seems to offer a reasonable reduction on last year’s, but there is also less availability than last year. We are currently waiting to consolidate our allocation from [...]
Château Latour news
Friday 13 April 2012 – 19:00
It has been announced today by Château Latour that the 2011 vintage will be the last that they will be offering en primeur. This was reported on wine critic James Suckling’s blog this afternoon and has apparently since been confirmed by negociants in the region, who received a letter from the Château today. While not [...]
Bordeaux 2011: Nick Dagley’s Vintage Report
Thursday 12 April 2012 – 10:41
The weather and its effects I witnessed first hand the topsy-turvy weather conditions, which made 2011 such a challenge for the vignerons; I was sunburnt and hot during the en-primeur tastings of the first week in April, rained on and distinctly chilly in August and then overheated again during my annual harvest visit in September. [...]
Bordeaux 2011: First Releases
Tuesday 10 April 2012 – 15:41
Well, we said it was likely to be an early campaign, so here we go with our first releases of Bordeaux 2011 en primeur. We have three wines first off the blocks, including two of the regions that have perhaps been the most successful in this vintage – the right bank and white wines: G [...]
Bordeaux 2011 – Watch this space
Thursday 5 April 2012 – 19:52
Our various teams are all now back from Bordeaux, bearing notebooks of scribbled tasting notes, suitcases full of paperwork from the various Châteaux and the marks of those who have been tasting young claret for the last few days – blackened teeth and a purple index finger. It has been an interesting and educational week. [...]
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