Wine Chronicles#Bdx17 from barrel: The Médoc, part I
Pauillac – Saint Julien – Saint Estèphe By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 17 May 2018 As said in previous reports, Bordeaux 2017 is hard to categorize. Despite attempts at “buzz” from collective critical scores on the likes of Wine Lister, and merchants hyping the latest priced barrel issue, it is not exactly 10 hours of […]
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, […]
Freshness from Saint Emilion: Bordeaux 2017 from barrel
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 7 May 2018 Given its rather large size, Saint Emilion is heterogeneous in quality. 2017 compounded differences from the challenge to remove grapes from frost-affected vines, of which there were plenty. Properties with the most financial means did best to remove under ripe second-generation grapes that may have otherwise wound […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Eating well in Alsace
Le Buerehiesel in Strasbourg (restaurant review) By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 24 March 2018 OK so it cost me more than €120 … but lunch here was fabulous. I had enjoyed lunch here a few years back with a work colleague and it was a positive experience for about the same price. But this time, it […]
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