Bordeaux Vintages of the ‘90s 1990: The decade got off to a roaring start with the third in a series of great vintages. Coming after the classic ’88 and elegant ’89 vintages, the world wasn’t ready for wine as good as this. The 1990s are near-perfect Bordeaux, with perhaps more fruit than what is …
Bordeaux Vintages of the ‘80s: 1980: A good but not exciting year. The wines were light and clean, with decent fruit but lacked the structure needed to make great wine. Pleasant drinking for their first two decades, they did not evolve into greatness, and most were beginning to fade before the turn of the …
Bordeaux Vintages of the ‘70s 1970: A very fine vintage indeed. Many wines developed early with rich refined fruit flavours perfectly balanced with firm but not harsh tannins. They continued to develop complexity over many years. The lesser wines are now beginning to fade; the great growths are still in full flight. Delightful to …
Bordeaux Vintages of the ‘60s 1960: The decade began with a rather light year, and one of my first as a wine lover and collector. These were good but not great wines, and gave much pleasure at the table in their youth, but they lacked the weight and structure to make old bones. 1961: …
Wine is a pure and natural product, formed by nature from nature’s own materials. Modern science has analyzed this process, and learned to control and perhaps even improve it, but at its heart it remains a phenomenon of nature. Wine is formed when ripe grapes are left to ferment. We can show that by the …
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