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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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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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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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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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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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Carbonnieux and the case for dry white Bordeaux

Ask a table of reasonably serious drinkers in Hong Kong to name a white Bordeaux...
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Cantenac Brown and why a vintage is not a grade

Two bottles of the same wine from years three apart can differ more than two...
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Cantemerle and what the 1855 brokers were measuring

In 1855 Napoleon III wanted a display of French agricultural achievement for the Exposition Universelle...
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Branaire-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...
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Chateau Batailley and what the 1855 list undersold

In the spring of 1855 the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce received an awkward request. Paris...
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Barton in Saint-Julien: two estates, one set of hands

Here is a problem that anybody who has tried to learn Bordeaux by tasting has...
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What 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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