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Two decanters of differing wine colour on a stone sill, one noticeably paler, Margaux vine rows blurred beyond — A second wine is not leftover
Bordeaux

Lascombes and what a second wine is really made of

A second wine usually gets explained as whatever the estate could not put in the...
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New steel fermentation tanks standing beside an old stone chateau wall, scaffolding shadow falling across vine rows — Lagrange is an estate rebuilt
Bordeaux

Chateau Lagrange and the estate that was rebuilt

Every serious Bordeaux estate throws wine away. Not literally — it sells it, under a...
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A mound of pale round gravel stones resting on dark earth, river mist beyond a bare wooden vine trellis — Gravel marks the southern Medoc
Bordeaux

La Lagune and the gravel at the southern end of the Medoc

For most of its history the strip of land now producing the most expensive Cabernet...
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Crushed gravel and clay soil beside a single wilting rose stem, Margaux vine rows blurring into distant mist — Soil explains perfumed Margaux
Bordeaux

Chateau Kirwan and the soil behind perfumed Margaux

Wine writing describes Margaux as perfumed and Pauillac as powerful. The words are so worn...
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An unopened bottle silhouetted in candlelight beside a magnifying glass and a loose cork on dark cellar wood — Read a bottle before opening it
Bordeaux

Gruaud Larose and how to read a bottle before opening it

A bottle arrives with a label that has clearly had a hard life. Stained brown...
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A clump of blue clay soil against a rusted iron gate post, Pomerol vine rows dissolving into morning mist — Gazin lost land it once owned
Bordeaux

Chateau Gazin, Pomerol, and the land it no longer owns

Open a classified Bordeaux from 1975 and one from 2005 on the same table and...
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A handful of Pauillac gravel stones beside worn pruning shears on a weathered oak barrel stave in low morning light — Ownership does not buy character
Bordeaux

Duhart-Milon and what ownership cannot transfer

A restaurant group that runs a very good kitchen in Central opens a second place...
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A shallow dish of dark alluvial soil beside crushed wild herbs and river reeds, faint mist rolling across flat fields — Southern Medoc smells different
Bordeaux

Chateau Dauzac and why southern Medoc smells different

Ask why a Margaux smells the way it does and you will usually be told...
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A corkscrew mid turn in an open unlabelled bottle, two empty glasses waiting beside a young vine cutting on weathered wood — Open this Pauillac early
Bordeaux

Chateau d'Armailhac and the Pauillac you can open early

Somebody buys a serious bottle of Bordeaux and is told to leave it for ten...
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Loose wooden classification tiles scattered and half stacked on a stone table, one pile forming again beside the fallen others — The ranking gets rebuilt
Bordeaux

Chateau d'Angludet and the ranking that gets rebuilt

A classification is a promise about the future made with information from the past. The...
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Young grafted vine cuttings bundled beside secateurs and a shallow crate of small green grapes, a pagoda roofline blurred behind — Where the young vine fruit goes
Bordeaux

Cos d'Estournel, young vines and where that fruit goes

"Young vines" is one of the few phrases in wine that people treat as an...
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A modest stone marker standing alone in gravel soil, a larger shadowed estate wall out of focus beyond it — This is not a famous leftover
Bordeaux

Clerc Milon is not the offcut of a famous neighbour

There is a shop in every outlet mall that sells the same brand as the...
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