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Bill Blatch on Bordeaux 2010 Continued

As promised here is the second installment of Bill Blatch’s masterwork on the soon to be released 2010 Bordeauxs. For anybody thinking that wine merchants had exhausted their stock of superlatives in 2009

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Bill Blatch on Bordeaux 2010: An embarrassingly good vintage

Each year Bill Blatch (of the Bordeaux negociant Vintex) publishes an incredibly detailed vintage report, covering everything from bud burst to the (almost) finished barrels in the cellar.

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A couple of wines drinking really well…

I did a tasting yesterday for a punter and two wines which don’t appear to be flying out of the door in London showed very well.

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1990 Bordeaux for Starlight

Recently I spent a couple of hours opening up all the 1990 1st Growths, Ch Cheval Blanc and a very small handful of 2nd Growths for a Starlight wine dinner

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Ch Beaumont Haut Medoc 2005

It’s not always about DRC, Petrus and Lafite in HK. I have written about the enjoyment of wine from other regions in Hong Kong many times. Neverthless Bordeaux does do quality without

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