2010 Bordeaux Primeurs – just getting going
By Charles Lea on 16/05/2011
Several new releases in the 2010 Bordeaux campaign, some solid value, others seeming to test the market.
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The Daily Telegraph exposes how Bordeaux prices are fixed
By Charles Lea on 30/04/2011
"Under the midday sun, on a lane in Pomerol, two men are locked in a frenetic waltz that might also be a fight. “This is the tango of the en primeur,” explains Denis Durantou, maker of the sublimely voluptuous Chateau L’Eglise Clinet." (Victoria Moore in The Daily Telegraph 29th April 2011)
2010 Bordeaux – Pierre Taix’s ‘La Mauriane’
By Charles Lea on 27/04/2011
Pierre Taïx’s ‘La Mauriane’ comes strongly recommended if you are looking for Cru Classé level drinking at a very modest price.
2010 Bordeaux Overview
By Charles Lea on 20/04/2011
Well, we are off! The first runners in what promises to be the marathon of the 2010 Bordeaux Primeur campaign have been released, so that we are under way, even if, with Vinexpo this year, there’s the threat that the Firsts and maybe some others will delay releasing their wines until mid-June or later.
A COLD WEEK-END IN LONDON
By Patrick Sandeman on 03/12/2010
It may be freeezing cold but the Lea & Sandeman shops and delivery service are firing on all cylinders!
2010 Vintage Reports – Bordeaux
By Charles Lea on 07/10/2010
Latest reports suggest that 2010 could be as good or better than 2009, and with a smaller harvest and rich Châteaux which have no need to sell, the chances are that the market will again be sorely tested.
2009 Bordeaux Primeurs
By Charles Lea on 28/03/2010
As I prepare to go to Bordeaux to taste the 2009s over the course of next week, the air is thick with hyperbole and excitement, and these first wines to be tasted from the 2009 vintage are awaited with very high hopes indeed.
Bordeaux 2008 primeurs
By Charles Lea on 21/04/2009
A remarkable vintage which frankly no one is more suprised by than the producers themselves. Nobody was expecting the quality that has come from this late harvest.