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Pape Clement and the vineyard the city grew around
There is a tram out of central Bordeaux that runs west towards the airport. Get...
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If a wine estate decides today to fix a problem in its vineyard, the first...
閱讀更多Montrose, Saint-Estephe and where the tannin comes from
Take a mouthful of young Cabernet and something happens that has nothing to do with...
閱讀更多Lynch-Bages and what deep Pauillac gravel tastes like
If you dig a pit in a Medoc vineyard, the interesting part is not the...
閱讀更多L'Evangile, Pomerol, and buying for Saturday not 2040
The single most reliable statistic in the wine trade is also the least discussed: the...
閱讀更多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...
閱讀更多Chateau Lagrange and the estate that was rebuilt
Every serious Bordeaux estate throws wine away. Not literally — it sells it, under a...
閱讀更多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...
閱讀更多Chateau Kirwan and the soil behind perfumed Margaux
Wine writing describes Margaux as perfumed and Pauillac as powerful. The words are so worn...
閱讀更多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...
閱讀更多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...
閱讀更多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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