WINE OF THE WEEK: Le Moulin Rose de Malescasse 2020, Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux, France
The blend of the Moulin Rose 2020 – a very good vintage – is more or less equal parts of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot
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Nov 16, 2023
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château Courbin Héritage Graves Blanc 2022, Bordeaux, France
£13.95, Stone, Vine & Sun There were three white wines from UK wine merchant Stone, Vine & Sun that I wanted to make Wine of the Week. In...
Feb 2, 2023
WINE OF THE WEEK: Lions de Suduiraut Blanc Sec 2021, Bordeaux, France
£19.95, Cambridge Wine Merchants White Bordeaux has never really established an identity that’s captured hearts and minds like white...
Aug 3, 2022
Penfolds French-ish Launches, the New Grange, the Fabled Bin 60A and More
When Penfolds launches its 2022 collection tomorrow, Thursday 4 August, it will include two French, or French-ish, still wines for the...
Jun 2, 2022
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château des Fougères La Raison 2012, Graves, France
£16, Tesco I was planning to choose something that shouted summer more obviously this week, but along came a timely reminder that you...
May 26, 2022
WINE OF THE WEEK: A de Château d'Arche Bordeaux Blanc Sec 2020, France
£13.50, The Wine Society This is the debut dry wine from a Sauternes Grand Cru and it's delicious. Fresh herbs, grass, dried flowers,...
Oct 14, 2021
WINE OF THE WEEK: Roc Cuvée 2020, Bordeaux, France
£13.99/£12./59, Laithwaites A red Bordeaux in a Burgundy bottle without a capsule and label graphics showing a love-you hand squeezing a...
May 13, 2021
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château Climens Asphodèle 2019, Bordeaux Blanc Sec, France
£26.50, Berry Bros & Rudd There is joy tinged with sadness in this week's wine. Let's start with the joy, which is that this is a...
Dec 10, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château de Rochemorin Pessac-Léognan 2016, Bordeaux, France
£13.99 on offer, Waitrose I said at the beginning of the year that we should all drink more Sauternes and followed with a resolution a...
Dec 4, 2020
The Festive Red Wine Guide 2020
However different this Christmas turns out to be, wine is going to be at least as vital as usual. Here then is my round-up of red wines...
Dec 23, 2019
WINE OF THE WEEK: Cap Royal Bordeaux Supérieur 2016, France
£8 (on offer), Tesco I'm posting this week's wine three days ahead of schedule because it seems a lot more useful to highlight it when...
Dec 2, 2019
The Festive Red Wine Guide 2019
My round up of red wines to take you through all kinds of festivities - major, minor and in some cases festivities for years to come....
Jan 3, 2019
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château Cabos 2015, Bordeaux, France
£10.50/£11.50, Lea & Sandeman The buyer pointed this out at the autumn tasting as one of the new lines Lea & Sandeman was particularly...
Oct 5, 2018
Château Lafon-Rochet 2006-2016: coming full circle
Ten years after returning to Saint-Estèphe to take the helm at the family's fourth-growth estate, Basile Tesseron showed the results at a...
Aug 30, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château de Cruzeau Blanc 2015, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux, France
£17.99, Waitrose It may seem unlikely that any sort of Bordeaux wine is underrated or not as well known as it should be, but white...
Feb 22, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château Recougne 2015, Bordeaux Supérieur, France
£9.99, or £8.99 in any mix of six bottles, Majestic Bordeaux Supérieur – everyday claret – doesn't come much better than this, and...
Apr 12, 2017
Ten Years On: tasting top Bordeaux 2007
Fruitless it may be, but I couldn’t help speculating recently how the 2007 Bordeaux red wines would have turned out if this vintage had...
Nov 17, 2016
WINE OF THE WEEK: Tanners Super Claret 2012, Haut-Médoc, France
£14.95, Tanners, tanners-wines.co.uk The name may sound a tad old school, but the wine, I’m happy to say, is not. It’s claret for sure,...
Dec 16, 2015
Festive Red Wines
Ten red wines to serve with the Christmas feast Wines listed in ascending order of price. I've given a UK stockist (or two) for each, but...
Oct 22, 2015
Negroni for wine lovers: aged in a Bordeaux barrel
£23.95, worldofzing.com I know, I know, it's not wine, but World of Zing's Negroni is aged in oak barrels that previously held Bordeaux...
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