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Hail Forces Early Start for Lafite as St-Estèphe Takes a Battering
This article appeared on the Liv-ex Fine Wine Market blog and in ‘Inside Information’ on JancisRobinson.com. Gavin Quinney reports from Bordeaux on an unscheduled start to the harvest for one of the...
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Bordeaux 2011: A Year of Living Dangerously
After two great Bordeaux vintages, 2011 has been a year of living dangerously. “It’s complicated,” Christian Moueix explained when I asked what he thought of the millésime, as his team picked in...
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Bordeaux 2011: How was it?
I was asked by Gemma, the News Editor at Harpers Wine and Spirit, for my thoughts on the 2011 vintage before the trade and press tastings here in the first week of April. Here was my reply. Even though...
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Bordeaux 2011: The Weather Compared to Recent Vintages
At the end of September 2011, I wrote about the unusual 2011 harvest in Bordeaux. Some people out there like to see the nerdy stuff, so I put together my weather charts for Livex, the Fine Wine...
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Bordeaux 2011: An Insider’s View
I wrote this article for the trade magazine, Harpers Wine and Spirit, for the April 2012 issue. Gavin Quinney, a grower in Bordeaux and contributor to Harpers Wine and Spirit, has tasted the top wines...
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Bordeaux 2012: Scorching Summer, but No Rush
Last weekend, Jancis Robinson asked me for ‘a brief report on how the Bordeaux vignoble is looking so far‘ and published my reply on her website a few days later. With Jancis’s kind permission, here...
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Bordeaux 2012: The Wait for Red October
2012 has been an extraordinary year for sport but will it be a vintage to remember? Here in Bordeaux, it’s too early to say, even at this late stage. It’s going to go right to the wire. “Exceptionally...
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Bordeaux 2012: The Late Show
This is the second of my 2012 Bordeaux harvest updates for Jancis Robinson, the first one being here on this site or you can find it here on JancisRobinson.com. (I’ve backdated the publication date...
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Bordeaux 2012: The End in Sight
This is the third of my 2012 Bordeaux harvest updates for Jancis Robinson, the first one being here on this site and the second here. (I’ve backdated the publication date above to match the date it...
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Bordeaux 2012: The End of the Harvest
This is another post I wrote for Liv-ex, the fine wine market blog. I’ve backdated it to the date of publication on the Liv-ex site. The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon harvest at Chateau Lafite The red-wine...
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Bordeaux 2012 – weather report
The Bordeaux 2012 en primeur or ‘futures’ campaign has kicked off. Over the last month, wine merchants and press from around the world have been in Bordeaux for the annual tastings of young barrel...
View ArticleBordeaux 2012 – vintage summary & my top 40
This article was posted today on Livex, the fine wine exchange. I’ve tasted over 500 Bordeaux wines from the 2012 vintage in April. Key points about Bordeaux 2012 1. 2012 is a good to very good...
View ArticleBordeaux 2012 – my top 150 wines
Here are my scores (out of 100) and estimated maturity dates on the top 150 red wines from the seven main appellations – Pomerol and St-Emilion on the Right Bank, Pessac-Leognan to the south of...
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Bordeaux 2013 – running late
This report was first published on Livex and Jancis Robinson‘s site. There hasn’t been a poor vintage in Bordeaux for twenty years but the cold, damp weather, as we approach the critical month of June,...
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2012 En Primeur overview
The campaign to sell the top 150+ Bordeaux wines from 2012 en primeur, i.e. while still in barrel, is coming to an end: there are many attractive wines but there’s little price incentive to buy early....
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The Flowering
It’s a scary time for vine growers. We need half-decent weather at the right moment or the size and quality of crop could be at risk. 2013 is the latest flowering we’ve witnessed and, what with...
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Soggy Vinexpo, sodden vines
The week of the 16th June was a shocker in the vineyard. When I was a lad, the week beginning the 16th was a special one. It was the start of the coarse fishing season in England and, as long as it...
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Lafite’s weeping willows
We had a storm in Bordeaux late last Friday and in the early hours of Saturday. Summer thunderstorms here are not uncommon after protracted heat waves, but there was some significant, localised damage....
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Hail in Bordeaux, part 1 – Bauduc
The children were playing in the garden. The long wooden tables were laid for supper under the vine-covered trellis; grown-ups chatted, rosé in hand. Last Friday was supposed to be just another lovely...
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Hail in Bordeaux, part 2 – the path of destruction
Thousands of hectares of vines between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers in the Entre Deux Mers were decimated by the hailstorm that ripped through this corner of Bordeaux last Friday evening, 2 August....
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