Bordeaux Latour a Pomerol 1928, 1961 Latour á Pomerol produces sumptuous, meaty, concentrated and full-bodied Pomerols. The 1928 vintage was so vibrant and powerful…. A miracle!!! Full of pure fruits, mineral character and a long finish. Petrus 1928, 1945, 1961 I have to be very honest with Petrus. There are great wines but they were [...]
So then we moved on to Burgundy Rousseau Chambertin 1962, 1971 Rousseau Chambertin Clos de Beze 1962, 1971 Chambertin was masculine, powerful and constructed well. It is a vigorous and firm wine, having a characteristic aroma of liquorice. Chambertin Clos de Beze was a fantastic delicate wine with slightly lighter alcohol and tannin content. Both [...]
So here we go then – these are my thoughts on the champagnes… Moet 1911 Although I’m a fan of Champagne at almost any age, I was taken by the quality of the 1911. It possessed what most people would consider a fatal flaw: no bubbles. I enjoyed notes of ginger, honey and apple as [...]
If you are invited to a connoisseur’s dinner party you will need to answer this terrible question: What is the best wine you have ever tasted? I had the fantastic opportunity to host an event last week tasting some of the best wines ever produced during the last century. We were blessed to taste superb [...]
By Bert Gilbert Jacko and his nine Jascoteers set out from St Pancras on a cold January morning. Powering under the channel on the Eurostar we arrived in Paris two hours later. After some dilly-dally at Gard du Nord we hired our carriages and made a beeline for the Grand cru village of Aÿ, passing [...]
By our Chilean Sommelier, Raul Diaz It is a great pleasure for me as a Chilean to share this blog with you. In my early career I was lucky to witness the early development of Chile’s wine export industry and in my more recent history it has been fantastic to witness the steady growth in [...]
Hot on the heels of the rave review of our very own André Roger Vieilles Vignes, Jancis Robinson MW has also written glowing tasting notes for the small selection of our wines which she recently tasted. You can find the full report on www.jancisrobinson.com, but we have listed the tasting notes below. White: Jean-Marie Haag [...]
Once a month, my lovely cousin, Deborah, comes in and cooks up a storm and James Fleetwood Mac (yup, that’s his name) does the wine matching. On Friday, we had Turkey and all the trimmings and what heaven that was with Esk Valley Verdelho (or, we just LOVE it with Von Buhl’s Dry Rieslings) then [...]
Basking in the hilarity and general bonhomie of the 2011 Bective Leslie Marsh’s Annual Central London Agent’s International Wine Championships held at Searcy’s in Knightsbridge last week, I had a surprise….a positively gobsmacking surprise, actually. We’d worked our way through the first 5 wines unusually commencing with the fabulous André Roger Vieilles Vignes which scuppered [...]
While thoroughly engrossed researching the German strategy of pulling the French Forces into the Battle of Verdun in February 1916 on The Western Front and Earl Haig responding by launching the catastrophic, the heart~breaking Battle of The Somme, the waft of BBQ’d Chicken swirled into the in~law’s conservatory and interrupted this dark passage of British [...]