Just back from Bordeaux:
7 days tasting the 2014 Bordeaux with colleagues at C&B
372 samples - 315 tasted and 57 consumed.
Wines tasted between one and four times
I'll do a summary of my thoughts on the vintage and the wines at some stage
Picture blog of the trip in 57 photos...
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| The only way to prepare properly... |
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| Helen and France's least comfortable van! |
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| Quintus... |
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| Tasting the Haut Brion stable...very proper |
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| Mr Marus clearly can't read the words "grass, keep, off, the, please" |
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| Alison, Guy and Mr Marus tasting at Pichon Lalande... |
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| Saturday morning...lovely tasting |
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| Mr Fraser gets prepared to re-taste the Moueix 2013's before the 2014's. |
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| Always love this property, 2014 no exception... |
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| Exceptional... |
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| Well said and it does help. |
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| Adam and Guy interview Edouard and Christian... |
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| Can't say where but this is rare in Bordeaux..."glass or knife sir?" |
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| Exactly... |
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Peter Sisseck gets animated at and about Rocheyron with Percy, Adam and Paul...
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| Caption competition? |
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| Decent if no more.... |
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| Jo-Jo guards Lamarque... |
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| Team in the cellar at Lamarque with Pierre-Giles... |
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| Ready, steady, go...really useful Negoce tasting pre lunch on a Sunday.... |
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| Sweeties...great to taste along side each other, I'm not good enough with words to describe these. |
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| Well it's sunday and the cabbage was awesome too... |
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| Lovely set...de Fargues really is a bargain, 2004 not easy but this superb... |
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| Such lovely weather for a Monday morning at Branaire... |
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| The Branaire wines with Patrick Maroteaux's son... |
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| Mr Fraser enjoys a furry chair at Latour... |
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| When they will be released? Who knows? But lovely they certainly are... |
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| The recent releases...Latour 2003 a wonderful "freak", unconvinced about Forts 2008... |
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| Amazing set up at Mauvesin Barton...it was suggested it'd be awesome for paint-balling... |
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| Wet and grey from Tertre Roteboeuf... |
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| Adam and Guy interview Francois Mitjavile...never dull! |
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| Tertre Roteboeuf cellars - I never think the wine is particularly Burgundian but the set up IS... |
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| More Interviews - Edouard Labruyere at Rouget, very interesting perspective... |
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| How Rouget's label has changed, 2014 very good and liable to be a great, savvy buy! |
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| What a line-up with a friend, customer, wine-lover...THANK YOU! |
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| Red scarves at Palmer...it got quite feisty on pricing... |
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| This red fiat was a complete pain...we needed a referee... |
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| The Marketing was in full flow at Margaux...Pavillon Blanc was wonderful... |
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| An icon even now - hustle, bustle and good game chips.... |
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| Where did that extra chin come from... |
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| Impressive, Cabernet showcase... |
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| Brooding and serious, for the patient...rewards will follow |
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| A wonderful, relaxed and happy evening... |
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| Vineyards at Les Carmes Haut-Brion - very much still "in town"... |
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| The works at Carmes Haut-Brion, amazing set up for the 2015 crop... |
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| On great form... |
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| We were at Smith Haut Lafite for the Pessac & Graves UGC... understatement never included... |
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| Monster or masterpiece? A bit of both actually... |
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| "Softplay area" at a very well organised St.Julien UGC at Leoville Poyferre... |
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| Lord Marus of Bordeaux awaits the tasting at Cos d'Estournel... |
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| His request is answered...impressive and the white is cracking... |
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| Not your average start to a Thursday... |
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| So pure fruited, open, elegant... |
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| Mr Fraser inspects the "arrangements" at La Conseillante... |
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| Conseillante 2014, floral, elegant, precise, good! |
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| The last tasting...filling any gaps and settling any differences, oh and tasting all the Sauternes... |
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| Job done! |
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