Wine ChroniclesBordeaux 2015 from bottle: Conclusions
Very good to great By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 20 March 2018 Dear readers, pretty much all my notes on Bordeaux 2015 from bottle – many wines assessed since late November last year – are online. Including, finally, some splendid wines from Sauternes and Barsac. For a quick look at each section, here the links […]
Splendid Sauternes 2015
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 12 March 2018 Having tasted through some 2015s with Jane Anson, I can only agree with her assessment (and that of Ian d’Agata) in Decanter that in 2015, Sauternes are “some of the highest scorers, along with Pomerol and St-Emilion.” Ian adds: “It’s an outstanding vintage, with many fleshy, rich […]
Saint Emilion 2015: Changing Tides
2015 from bottle shows return to freshness, if not for all estates … By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 11 March 2018 When assessing more 2015 Bordeaux from bottle at the UGCB tasting in New York, I was struck by just how much fresher some Right Bank wines especially tasted: wines that had not too long […]
Grand tasting in Bordeaux: More 2015s in bottle
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 18 February 2018 Connoisseurs continue to drive up prices for the famous Bordeaux brands, whether in Asia or Europe, the Americas or Australia. Of course prices of elite brands for certain vintages have dropped off a bit since a heyday of a couple of years ago, but the Liv-ex chart […]
Bordeaux 2015 from bottle, part 3
Better whites than expected from the Graves region By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com UPDATED 30 January 2018 It is always fun to review the wines of the Graves in Bordeaux because they are known just as much for whites as they are (these days) for reds. Furthermore, red Graves – dominated for the most part by […]
Crus Bourgeois return to classification
And (many) tasting notes from 2015 in bottle By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 14 January 2018 One of the great, if short-lived, periods in the modern era for the Cru Bourgeois wines of Bordeaux was a 2003 ministerial order that approved the first official classification of the Crus Bourgeois du Médoc, which recognized 247 châteaus […]
Pessac-Léognan (and Graves) pizzaz #Bdx15
And why dry extract matters By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 4 May 2016 Perhaps my overall favorite region in Bordeaux is the Graves region, which includes the since 1987 created Pessac-Léognan appellation that gathers such famous estates of the northern Graves, from Haut Brion and Pape Clement to Haut Bailly and Domaine de Chevalier. It is […]
In praise of 2015 Burgundy: mainly the reds
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 22 November 2015 The 155th Hospices de Beaune auction began movingly with both a minute of silence and a somber rendition of the French national anthem La Marseillaise, as you can see in the video that friend and fellow wine writer Michael Apstein of Wine Review Online took – see end […]
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