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Bordeaux with the Chairman

Our first day tasting the 2009s started with a few negociant tastings in the centre of Bordeaux. At 9am, tasting my first ever Bordeaux en primeur sample was, to say the least, challenging.

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An Englishman in Bordeaux

Last week I was lucky enough to go on my first trip to Bordeaux to taste the 2009s at the very best chateaux. Our group was dubbed “˜the chairman’s group’ that comprised

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Bordeaux 2009: Day Four

The home straight – the fourth and final day and we are off to the Graves and Pessac-Leognan. Slightly further south than the rest of the Left Bank there is a chance

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Bordeaux 2009: Day Three in full

The third day of UGC week has been designated Right Bank day. I view this with some trepidation. My taste naturally inclines to the Left Bank and, in a vintage

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Bordeaux 2009: UGC Day Three (brief)

Only ten minutes before check-out time at the hotel, so the quickest of snapshots of the day three in Bordeaux on the Right Bank. Ridiculous thunderstorms

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