Winery Outbuilding Chateau Mauvesin-Barton
Winery Outbuilding Chateau Mauvesin-Barton A photo taken in Bordeaux for this weeks Sunday Wine Shot – rather apt as the group who went on the trip are meeting for a reunion lunch today. This is an old...
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Moustachioed Wine Man Somewhere during the visit to Pichon Longueville I spotted this sad looking chap. The drooped shoulders just add to his unhappy demeanour or maybe its the weight of the bottles he...
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Hanging Wine Glasses Could have been taken anywhere – a row of glasses ready and, no doubt, terribly willing to be used. These glasses just happen to have been taken in the Bordeaux wine school (Ecole...
View ArticleEmpty Glasses at Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
Empty Glasses at Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande I’m packing. Another trip into Europe for some vineyard exploration and tasting but just enough time between stuffing rolled socks into shoes and...
View ArticleIlja Gort and Château la Tulipe de la Garde
Ilja Gort and Château la Tulipe de la Garde If you are not running down to Sainsbury’s with a crisp tenner flapping in your hand after seeing this video, I’ll be very surprised. With that magnificent...
View ArticleAbsolutely Cracking Wines From France
Absolutely Cracking Wines From France Perhaps you caught Anthony Rose’s article in the Independent the other day (15th November)? He made it to the Absolutely Cracking Wines From France tasting, a...
View ArticleWine Grape Pool at Chateau La Dominique
Wine Grape Pool at Chateau La Dominique There is a roof top restaurant at Chateau La Dominique in Bordeaux. It has a very good reputation. While we enjoyed a little wine tasting in the restaurant...
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Dusty Wine Bottles A corner of a cellar, a stack of wine bottles gathering dust. Uncertain if these are wines being given some serious age or just discarded, The winery, Chateau Saint Marie, out in the...
View ArticleThe Winery Pichon Longueville Bordeaux
The Winery Pichon Longueville Bordeaux Over the years I’ve received a few requests – not loads, but a few – for prints from some of my wine photos. About time, a friend suggested last week, that I...
View ArticleChâteau Mauvesin Barton Bordeaux
Château Mauvesin Barton Bordeaux The Bordeaux En Primeur assessment is underway. By all accounts the 2014 vintage ranks rather highly, with concerns only with the quantities available. En primeur isnt...
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