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Chateau Dauzac and why southern Medoc smells different
Ask why a Margaux smells the way it does and you will usually be told...
Read moreChateau d'Armailhac and the Pauillac you can open early
Somebody buys a serious bottle of Bordeaux and is told to leave it for ten...
Read moreChateau d'Angludet and the ranking that gets rebuilt
A classification is a promise about the future made with information from the past. The...
Read moreCos d'Estournel, young vines and where that fruit goes
"Young vines" is one of the few phrases in wine that people treat as an...
Read moreClerc Milon is not the offcut of a famous neighbour
There is a shop in every outlet mall that sells the same brand as the...
Read moreCarbonnieux and the case for dry white Bordeaux
Ask a table of reasonably serious drinkers in Hong Kong to name a white Bordeaux...
Read moreCantenac Brown and why a vintage is not a grade
Two bottles of the same wine from years three apart can differ more than two...
Read moreCantemerle and what the 1855 brokers were measuring
In 1855 Napoleon III wanted a display of French agricultural achievement for the Exposition Universelle...
Read moreBranaire-Ducru and the virtue of the middle of Saint-Julien
The 1855 classification is read, almost universally, as a quality ranking. It was a price...
Read moreChateau Batailley and what the 1855 list undersold
In the spring of 1855 the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce received an awkward request. Paris...
Read moreBarton in Saint-Julien: two estates, one set of hands
Here is a problem that anybody who has tried to learn Bordeaux by tasting has...
Read moreWhat a vintage chart hides behind a single score
Ninety-six sits beside one year on the chart, eighty-seven beside the year next to it,...
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