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Tasting Bordeaux 2018 | Margaux, St Emilion & Pomerol

After a fantastic day yesterday travelling from St Estèphe, through Pauillac and St Julien, it is 8am on day two and we are currently on route to Margaux and our first visit, Ch Palmer.

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Tasting Bordeaux 2018 | St Estephe, Pauillac & St Julien

We start the week of tasting with a trio of visits to Calon Ségur, Montrose & Cos d’Estournel. These have been covered well in a previous blog during our first week of tasting Bordeaux 2018 and were all showing very well this...

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Tasting Bordeaux 2018 | Day 4 | Graves & Pessac Léognan

Predictably Bordeaux cross town traffic did for our punctual start on day four but the time allowed musings on whether it would be Haut Brion or La Mission that took the laurels this year. A question made all the more...

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Tasting Bordeaux 2018 | Day 3 | The Right Bank

There’s genuine excitement surrounding St Emilion and Pomerol this year. To get to this though, nothing was plain sailing. A very wet spring resulting in an attack of mildew during flowering caused many a headache. Thankfully the incredible uninterrupted period...

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Tasting Bordeaux 2018 | Day 2

Yesterday, I joined the team and had the pleasure to taste some samples of Bordeaux 2018 for the very first time and get my first impression of the vintage. There has been much hype surrounding this vintage so it was...

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