Just back from Bordeaux:

7 days tasting the 2014 Bordeaux with colleagues at C&B
372 samples – 315 tasted and 57 consumed.
Wines tasted between one and four times
I’ll do a summary of my thoughts on the vintage and the wines at some stage
Picture blog of the trip in 57 photos…
The only way to prepare properly… 
Helen and France’s least comfortable van!
Quintus…
Tasting the Haut Brion stable…very proper
Mr Marus clearly can’t read the words “grass, keep, off, the, please” 
Alison, Guy and Mr Marus tasting at Pichon Lalande… 
Saturday morning…lovely tasting
Mr Fraser gets prepared to re-taste the Moueix 2013’s before the 2014’s.  
Always love this property, 2014 no exception…
Exceptional…
Well said and it does help.
Adam and Guy interview Edouard and Christian…
Can’t say where but this is rare in Bordeaux…”glass or knife sir?”
Exactly…
Peter Sisseck gets animated at and about Rocheyron with Percy, Adam and Paul…
Caption competition?
Decent if no more….
Jo-Jo guards Lamarque…
Team in the cellar at Lamarque with Pierre-Giles…
Ready, steady, go…really useful Negoce tasting pre lunch on a Sunday….
Sweeties…great to taste along side each other, I’m not good enough with words to describe these.
Well it’s sunday and the cabbage was awesome too…
Lovely set…de Fargues really is a bargain, 2004 not easy but this superb…
Such lovely weather for a Monday morning at Branaire… 
The Branaire wines with Patrick Maroteaux’s son… 
Mr Fraser enjoys a furry chair at Latour…
When they will be released? Who knows? But lovely they certainly are…
The recent releases…Latour 2003 a wonderful “freak”, unconvinced about Forts 2008…
Amazing set up at Mauvesin Barton…it was suggested it’d be awesome for paint-balling…
Wet and grey from Tertre Roteboeuf…
Adam and Guy interview Francois Mitjavile…never dull!  
Tertre Roteboeuf cellars – I never think the wine is particularly Burgundian but the set up IS…
More Interviews – Edouard Labruyere at Rouget, very interesting perspective…
How Rouget’s label has changed, 2014 very good and liable to be a great, savvy buy! 
What a line-up with a friend, customer, wine-lover…THANK YOU!
Red scarves at Palmer…it got quite feisty on pricing… 

This red fiat was a complete pain…we needed a referee… 
The Marketing was in full flow at Margaux…Pavillon Blanc was wonderful… 
An icon even now – hustle, bustle and good game chips….
Where did that extra chin come from…
Impressive, Cabernet showcase…
Brooding and serious, for the patient…rewards will follow
A wonderful, relaxed and happy evening…
Vineyards at Les Carmes Haut-Brion – very much still “in town”…
The works at Carmes Haut-Brion, amazing set up for the 2015 crop… 
On great form…
We were at Smith Haut Lafite for the Pessac & Graves UGC… understatement never included…
Monster or masterpiece? A bit of both actually…
“Softplay area” at a very well organised St.Julien UGC at Leoville Poyferre…
Lord Marus of Bordeaux awaits the tasting at Cos d’Estournel… 
His request is answered…impressive and the white is cracking…
Not your average start to a Thursday…
So pure fruited, open, elegant…
Mr Fraser inspects the “arrangements” at La Conseillante…
Conseillante 2014, floral, elegant, precise, good!
The last tasting…filling any gaps and settling any differences, oh and tasting all the Sauternes…
Job done!