Alastair Pyatt’s final blog from the 2011 Bordeaux En Primeur Tasting. Our fourth and final day saw us up at the crack of dawn to make the hour or so drive across the river to the right bank appellations of St Emilion and Pomerol with their clay soils, merlot dominated wines and achingly beautiful landscapes [...]
By Alastair Pyatt. My my my today was a day to knock the socks off even the most jaded wine professional – the third day in Bordeaux started rather inauspiciously with a trip out to the back and beyond of the Medoc and the rather obscure Chateau d’Arsac. For the un-initiated (which until about 8 [...]
By Alastair Pyatt. Up at 7 this morning for a hearty breakfast of croissants, pain au chocolat, fruit and enough coffee to see us through the day and soon we were heading through the city centre, past the urban sprawl and out towards the gravel outcrops and perfect symmetry of Bordeaux’s much fabled vineyard. First [...]
By Alastair Pyatt. Well, here we are in elegant and ever so-chic Bordeaux (finally) after spending not a small amount of time sitting on the tarmac at Gatwick, thanks to those pesky scamps at French Air Traffic control mostly being on strike. After our chairman, head of purchasing and sales director got some inevitable shut [...]