Wine ChroniclesBordeaux 2017 can resemble 1985
May 2018 Updates on tasting notes: Margaux as well as Sauternes/Barsac posted! By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 26 April 2018 This page will be updated regularly, with barrel tasting notes per appellation (keep checking back for new ones). Pomerol Saint Emilion Graves & Pessac-Léognan The northern Médoc: Pauillac, Saint Estèphe and Saint Julien Moulis, Listrac […]
Bordeaux 2017
Bye-bye big buzz, hello nuance By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 11 April 2018 It is mid week of the official en primeur week, when thousands of merchants and hacks like yours truly descend to Bordeaux to taste, swirl and spit hundreds of wines in a mad rush to get tasting notes and impressions published. But […]
Bordeaux 2017
The “multiple” vintage 8 April 2017 By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com “The only candle I lit was the one at church,” quipped Guillaume Thienpont of Vieux Château Certan, where the terrible frost of late April that struck many other estates in Bordeaux did not reach his estate. Some estates used large candles (or bougies) to […]
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