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…
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| The only way to prepare properly… |
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| Helen and France’s least comfortable van! |
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| Quintus… |
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| Tasting the Haut Brion stable…very proper |
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| Mr Marus clearly can’t read the words “grass, keep, off, the, please” |
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| Alison, Guy and Mr Marus tasting at Pichon Lalande… |
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| Saturday morning…lovely tasting |
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| Mr Fraser gets prepared to re-taste the Moueix 2013’s before the 2014’s. |
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| Always love this property, 2014 no exception… |
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| Exceptional… |
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| Well said and it does help. |
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| Adam and Guy interview Edouard and Christian… |
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| Can’t say where but this is rare in Bordeaux…”glass or knife sir?” |
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| Exactly… |
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| Peter Sisseck gets animated at and about Rocheyron with Percy, Adam and Paul… |
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| Caption competition? |
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| Decent if no more…. |
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| Jo-Jo guards Lamarque… |
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| Team in the cellar at Lamarque with Pierre-Giles… |
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| Ready, steady, go…really useful Negoce tasting pre lunch on a Sunday…. |
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| Sweeties…great to taste along side each other, I’m not good enough with words to describe these. |
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| Well it’s sunday and the cabbage was awesome too… |
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| Lovely set…de Fargues really is a bargain, 2004 not easy but this superb… |
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| Such lovely weather for a Monday morning at Branaire… |
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| The Branaire wines with Patrick Maroteaux’s son… |
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| Mr Fraser enjoys a furry chair at Latour… |
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| When they will be released? Who knows? But lovely they certainly are… |
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| The recent releases…Latour 2003 a wonderful “freak”, unconvinced about Forts 2008… |
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| Amazing set up at Mauvesin Barton…it was suggested it’d be awesome for paint-balling… |
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| Wet and grey from Tertre Roteboeuf… |
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| Adam and Guy interview Francois Mitjavile…never dull! |
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| Tertre Roteboeuf cellars – I never think the wine is particularly Burgundian but the set up IS… |
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| More Interviews – Edouard Labruyere at Rouget, very interesting perspective… |
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| How Rouget’s label has changed, 2014 very good and liable to be a great, savvy buy! |
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| What a line-up with a friend, customer, wine-lover…THANK YOU! |
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| Red scarves at Palmer…it got quite feisty on pricing… |
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| This red fiat was a complete pain…we needed a referee… |
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| The Marketing was in full flow at Margaux…Pavillon Blanc was wonderful… |
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| An icon even now – hustle, bustle and good game chips…. |
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| Where did that extra chin come from… |
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| Impressive, Cabernet showcase… |
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| Brooding and serious, for the patient…rewards will follow |
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| A wonderful, relaxed and happy evening… |
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| Vineyards at Les Carmes Haut-Brion – very much still “in town”… |
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| The works at Carmes Haut-Brion, amazing set up for the 2015 crop… |
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| On great form… |
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| We were at Smith Haut Lafite for the Pessac & Graves UGC… understatement never included… |
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| Monster or masterpiece? A bit of both actually… |
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| “Softplay area” at a very well organised St.Julien UGC at Leoville Poyferre… |
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| Lord Marus of Bordeaux awaits the tasting at Cos d’Estournel… |
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| His request is answered…impressive and the white is cracking… |
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| Not your average start to a Thursday… |
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| So pure fruited, open, elegant… |
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| Mr Fraser inspects the “arrangements” at La Conseillante… |
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| Conseillante 2014, floral, elegant, precise, good! |
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| The last tasting…filling any gaps and settling any differences, oh and tasting all the Sauternes… |
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| Job done! |
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