Wine ChroniclesGraves in red and white #Bdx17
Some very fine reds, some even finer whites By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 18 May 2018 For your mid May weekend reading, my notes on barrel samples – red and white – of Bordeaux’s famous Graves region. They are Left Bank, but to the south of the Médoc. In the Pessac area, it was generally […]
Saint Julien Elegance
17 vintages of Château Lagrange (and more) by Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 13 May 2018 Bordeaux is not just about showing off expensive wines. Nor about maximum power and density. It shouldn’t be defined only as inexpensive Bordeaux AOC level wines, either. Such categories have their value and allure – to be sure. Earlier this month, […]
Pomerol Plaudits: Bordeaux 2017 from barrel
The small Bordeaux appellation with many 2017 hits By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 2 May 2018 As almost anywhere in Bordeaux, the best terroirs thrived, especially those with either minimal or no frost. Pomerol in spite of its rather small size, is no exception. As you can see in the photo, Christian Moueix of the […]
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 […]
Is Bordeaux “the new Burgundy”?
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 31 March 2018 What in the heck prompted this title? Believe it or not, a dear friend who has been on allocation lists for the last 15 years or so of some of the top Burgundy producers. When I went to Burgundy earlier this month for a tasting of Clos […]
Tasting 2017 Bordeaux barrel samples: Coming soon!
Press Release from the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux 28 March 2018 En Primeur Week, organised by the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux – an intense time for wine producers and Bordeaux négociants – will be presenting the 2017 vintage to the international wine trade from Monday the 9 to Thursday the 12 […]
Bordeaux 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 […]
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