The lowdown on Loudenne

Posted on April 24, 2022April 27, 2022 by John Salvi MW

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Bordeaux’s accessible classification

Posted on February 18, 2022February 21, 2022 by Richard Lane

Richard Lane laps up wines from two contrasting vintages of Les crus Bourgeois – the hot, volumptuous 2018 and the cooler, tauter 2019. One thing that always ties me up in knots is Bordeaux’s various classification systems. Don’t get me started on the Saint-Emilion classification, and I cannot honestly say I have had the opportunity to taste many of the class growths of the 1855 classification; b...

Analysing Angélus

Posted on January 23, 2022January 26, 2022 by Jane Anson

The lowdown on Lassègue

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Keith Grainger

Keith Grainger engages in deep conversation on a range of vinous subjects with winemaker Nicolas Seillan, and finds a reborn Saint-Émilion estate that has come of age. How we define and identify quality in wines is a topic that I have written about extensively. Quality may be assessed using many criteria and, to me, one of the most important of these is that a wine should exude ‘a sense of place’...

A tale of two French titans: Château Pichon Baron and Domaine De L’Arlot

Posted on December 19, 2021December 20, 2021 by Amanda Barnes

Amanda Barnes examines AXA Millésimes’ two very different but complementary estates, Château Pichon Baron and Domaine De L’Arlot, which became the first two members of its now six-strong portfolio. When the insurance broker AXA made its first foray into the world of wine portfolios, it picked two estates to get the ball rolling in 1987 – Château Pichon Baron in Bordeaux and Domaine De L’Arlot in ...