The best Bordeaux wines of Pomerol in 2009 are pure decadence. They offer velvet drenched tannins, purity of fruit and opulent textures that are best described as bottled pleasure.Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Google Buzz • Reddit • StumbleUpon • Email (...) 2009 Pessac Leognan combines opulent textures, smokey aromatics, ripe fruit and soft tannins. From top to bottom, it's easy to find quality. In fact, some of the better 2009 Bordeaux value wines come from Pessac Leognan.Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Google Buzz • (...) At their best, they combine intense, honey coated, tropical fruit, spice and floral aromas with pure, sweet, succulent, honey coated fruit flavors and refreshing levels of acidity. The wines can age effortlessly for decades. Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Google Buzz (...) Though the Grand Valley has a shorter growing season than other preeminent wine regions, the high altitude and clear skies allow for warm summer growing conditions, a large diurnal temperature difference and more growing degree days than Napa Valley or Bordeaux.Share and Enjoy • Facebook (...) Sun Xitai, a 62-year-old businessman in China has been sentenced to life in prison. His crime? Bringing about $7 million worth of wine, mostly Bordeaux, from Hong Kong to mainland China and failing to pay sufficient duty. You can get the whole story in an interesting post on Bordeaux (...) A recent discovery of letters unearthed by Professor Thomas M. Truxes of New York University sheds new light on, amongst many other things, the wine trade between Bordeaux and Ireland in the 18th century.Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Google Buzz • Reddit • (...) Perhaps because they have only been on a hot streak for a few years, (since 2000) for a Bordeaux wine of this quality, they remain fairly priced. This wine is no shrinking violet. It is thick, rich, pure and aromatic. The tannins are soft and the texture is elegant. Share and Enjoy • (...) lthough China's bustling metropolises and staid Bordeaux may seem worlds apart, the two are becoming increasingly intertwined. Indeed, China recently overtook the traditional strongholds of Germany and the United Kingdom to become Bordeaux's largest export destination. This (...) 2011 had numerous highpoints that produced some special memories I'll always cherish. That being said, 2012, I'm glad you're here. What took you so long?Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Google Buzz • Reddit • StumbleUpon • Email • Add to (...) While expensive, more than triple the price of most of the other Sauternes, when the wine matures, d'Yquem stands heads and shoulders above every other sweet Bordeaux wine from the region as well as that from any other sweet wine from all over the world!Share and Enjoy • Facebook • (...) Having tasted these wines multiple times from barrel to bottle, (most recently last June in Bordeaux) 2009 is an outstanding vintage for Bordeaux wine.The wines are sensuous, supple, opulent and silky. At their best, they offer decadent tasting (...) ~ We asked the judges in this week’s Ningxia vs Bordeaux Challenge to rank ten wines from first to last in terms of quality (see results here). But as in the Grape Wall Challenge, we also asked them how much they liked or disliked each wine. The judges had four options: “love it”, “like it”, (...) [China wine blog: Grape Wall of China, a nonprofit site with wine makers, distributors, academics, writers, consultants and consumers as contributors] ~ It depends on your perspective. Different wine contests are designed to discover different things. Our Grape Wall Challenge at Modo asked Chinese consumers to judge wines that retail for under rmb100 and to tell us what they liked. The more recent North by Northwest Challenge at Hilton (...) [China wine blog: Grape Wall of China, a nonprofit site with wine makers, distributors, academics, writers, consultants and consumers as contributors] ~ By Jim Boyce Chinese wines took the top four spots in the Ningxia vs Bordeaux Challenge held this afternoon in Beijing. The event featured ten wines — five from Ningxia and five from Bordeaux. They were blind-tasted by ten judges — five from China and five from France. I helped organize the (...) [China wine blog: Grape Wall of China, a nonprofit site with wine makers, distributors, academics, writers, consultants and consumers as contributors] The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) has launched a new marketing campaign for Bordeaux Wines. The English version of the campaign is billed as "Bordeaux wines, your style" and centers around a series of photographs by Denise Grünstein featuring people engaged in activities (...) |
