The 2008 harvest in Bordeaux will be another test of craftsmanship for the vintners with the late summer ripening the grapes right up to the last minute. Jean-Luc Thunevin (owner of Chateau Valandraud) told decanter that “If the weather continues like this for the next three weeks, we will be calling 2008 the miracle vintage”. Well, it’s 22ºC in … Read more
We are celebrating this week thanks to Leighton Aspell’s thrilling race at the Grand National where he came in first on Pineau De Re, trained by Dr Richard Newland. We met Leighton Aspell recently when won at our final race of the day ‘ The La Fleur Morange Mathilde National Hunt Flat Race’ last Saturday, 29th … Read more
Day 2 started at the First Growth Chateau Haut Brion (Pessac Leognan) where we were offered 6 reds and 3 white wines from the estate. All the reds were around 13% abv and yet again showed the 2013 vintage’s characteristic lack of concentration in colour. However overall they presented quite elegantly compared to the wines … Read more
Jean-Francois Julien of Chateau La Fleur Morange has kindly sent me a detailed report and photographs for the 2012 Bordeaux harvest at the chateau this year. La Fleur Morange was recently promoted to Grand Cru Classé in the new Saint Emilion Classification – a remarkable achievement for a small château that has only been producing wine for a decade … Read more
Both the Grand Vin Chateau La Fleur Morange 05 and the Second Wine Mathilde 08 featured in Robert Parker’s Top 50 Quality to Price Ratio Wines for October 2011. Made by Jean-François Julien in Saint Emilion these wines represent fantastic value for money especially when compared against their Bordeaux peers. Parker’s tasting notes are as follows: Chateau La Fleur Morange 2005 … Read more
The Château la Fleur Morange 2006 has won a Gold at the Decanter World Wine Awards which were announced at the London International Wine Fair yesterday the 18th of May! There were record entries this year with 10,983 wines entered and only 2.86% won a Gold or Regional trophy. That’s less than 320 wines from around the world! … Read more
Saturday looks set for a great days racing with the weather turning warm and sunny. Bordeaux-Undiscovered are sponsoring the days racing this Saturday (29th March) at Stratford Racecourse and Nick will also be showing our range of wines including some new great discoveries having their first introduction into the UK market!. So why not come along and taste a … Read more
Having returned from a hectic week of tasting hundreds of Bordeaux wines I have had time to gather my thoughts and reflect on the latest vintage from the various appellations of Bordeaux. My conclusion is that the 2012 is not a great vintage but it is going to be a very good drinking vintage. Whilst … Read more
Robert Parker’s eagerly anticipated new scores have been released on the Bordeaux 2009s. I say eagerly awaited as the scores were released in the print version of the Wine Advocate hours before they were posted on erobertparker.com – and when they finally came online the site crashed (definitely an indication of how much interest there is out … Read more
I enjoy taking a look back at what has gone before at this time of year and I thought I would highlight some of the miles we have travelled in the world of wine over 2011 and share my thoughts with you. Running both Bordeaux-Undiscovered and Interest In Wine I cover Bordeaux’s wines in all their glory from pocket … Read more
