Category Archives: France
Wine of the Week: 2010 ‘Domaine’ Domaine Bernard Baudry – Chinon
Pioneering a new vanguard of Chinon wines exemplifying purity and extraction, this is a splendid example of pure Cabernet Franc made by a seasoned expert. Rich, sumptuous, dark ruby in colour, yet with clean and precisely extracted fruit, Bernard Baudry’s 2010 … Continue reading
2012 Bordeaux – a last honk of the horn – real value buys
The 2012 Bordeaux campaign will go down as one with a lot of sound and (especially) fury, signifying very little. The shame is that it obscures the real hard work being done all over this vast region which still makes a lot … Continue reading
2012 Value Bordeaux for the cellar: Denis Durantou’s Château Montlandrie
You will have seen our earlier push on Denis Durantou’s ‘little wines’, not to mention the little video about the 2012 vintage. Of course ‘little wines’ is a misnomer since they are far from little and offer some of the best value … Continue reading
2012 Value Bordeaux for the cellar: Stéphane Dief’s ‘Clos Manou’
Up in the northern Médoc, around the village of Saint Christoly, it was normal, right up to the 1970s, for farmers to have some maize, some cows, a few pigs – and 4 hectares or so of vines. Part of … Continue reading
