2014 bordeaux

Last week I spent a thoroughly enjoyable couple of days tasting the 2014 Bordeaux wines in bottle. A small but dedicated tasting team of 18 of some of the best palates in the UK trade (journalists and buyers), tasted all the wines blind at Farr Vintners. This is the 'Southwold' tasting that has...

The sprawling cru bourgeois category of Bordeaux - currently some 250 wines - is rather variable in quality, with many "no names". But some economically priced diamonds can be found in the rough. Take 2014, as an example. In the northern Médoc, 2014 is often better than 2015, because rains fell...