Wine Chronicles2024 Bordeaux: just before bottling
By Panos Kakaviatos for Wine Chronicles 15 April 2026 All eyes this month are on the promising 2025 vintage from barrel in Bordeaux, and the world is abuzz with an urgent need to get a successful en primeur campaign or else “en primeur is dead”, Edouard Moueix is quoted as saying in a Decanter article. […]
In honor of Daniel Cathiard: Smith Haut Lafitte 2010
By Panos Kakaviatos Sunday 5 April, 2026 “Nous faisons partie du meuble,” I recall Daniel Cathiard telling me over a chat at his estate, Château Smith Haut Lafitte, in 2009. This French expression describes people who have been around for so long in a place that they are almost invisible, taken for granted, or simply […]
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