2012 Bordeaux – into the final week? – Ausone, Conseillante, Ducru...
Ausone has just been put on the market at £3950. This seems a solid buy against the price of other vintages. Robert Parker calls this “a high class, aristocratic, nearly perfect wine to cellar for a...
View Article2012 Bordeaux – Gruaud Larose and Sarget de Gruaud
2012 Bordeaux – Gruaud Larose and Sarget de Gruaud – and a reminder about La Conseillante The only significant releases this afternoon are Gruaud Larose and its second wine Sarget de Gruaud. Sarget is...
View Article2012 Bordeaux – Brane Cantenac, Léoville Poyferre, Figeac, Clos du Marquis,...
Brane Cantenac, Léoville Poyferre, Figeac, Beauséjour Duffau, Clos du Marquis, Nénin Today we have one of my favourite wines in Margaux, Brane Cantenac, where Henri Lurton has made another...
View Article2012 Bordeaux – Denis Durantou’s ‘Haiku of the vintage’& Las Cases, Saint...
2012 Bordeaux – Denis Durantou’s ‘Haiku of the vintage’ & Las Cases, Saint Pierre, Vieux Chateau Certan, and yes… ÉGLISE CLINET A big day today, and maybe the last one for releases in this 2012...
View Article2012 Value Bordeaux for the cellar: Pierre Taïx’s ‘La Mauriane’
Regular Primeur buyers from L&S will know that we have been banging the drum for Pierre Taïx’s ‘La Mauriane’ since 2001, and this tiny property in Puisseguin Saint Emilion continues to produce...
View Article2012 Value Bordeaux for the cellar: Stéphane Dief’s ‘Clos Manou’
Up in the northern Médoc, around the village of Saint Christoly, it was normal, right up to the 1970s, for farmers to have some maize, some cows, a few pigs – and 4 hectares or so of vines. Part of …...
View Article2012 Value Bordeaux for the cellar: Denis Durantou’s Château Montlandrie
You will have seen our earlier push on Denis Durantou’s ‘little wines’, not to mention the little video about the 2012 vintage. Of course ‘little wines’ is a misnomer since they are far from little and...
View Article2012 Bordeaux – a last honk of the horn – real value buys
The 2012 Bordeaux campaign will go down as one with a lot of sound and (especially) fury, signifying very little. The shame is that it obscures the real hard work being done all over this vast region...
View ArticleL&S awarded ‘En Primeur’ Merchant of the Year (IWC)
International Wine Challenge (IWC) Merchant Awards Strictly Come Wine Tasting? On the 18th of July, at the 30th anniversary of the IWC awards, Lea & Sandeman was awarded ‘En Primeur Merchant of the...
View ArticleRelease of 2011 CHÂTEAU YQUEM 1er Cru Classé Sauternes
Apparently we were waiting all this time for the great Bobness' final pronouncement - as if that really changes anything about a wine already praised fulsomely by every other critic on the planet,...
View ArticleBordeaux 2013: Victoria Moore interviews Charles Lea in The Daily Telegraph
“I arrived in Bordeaux on Sunday to taste the 2013 wines which are being shown en primeur. I think we knew all the way through last year, right from the beginning, that it was going to be a difficult...
View Article2013 Bordeaux Primeurs – Keep Calm and Carry On
In recent vintages the Bordeaux primeurs campaign has been an unruly affair, stretching out until the beginning of the summer holidays with no one wanting to be the first to jump. This year it seems to...
View ArticleLynch Bages and the roundup of this week’s 2013 Bordeaux releases
The second week of releases from the 2013 primeur campaign is over, and Lynch Bages has emerged as the first wine to 'work' in any real sense. The Château has released 65% less wine than last year, and...
View ArticleBordeaux Primeurs 14/4/2014
Cos d’Estournel (£900) and it’s stable (Pagodes £290, Cos Blanc £480) are released today but the pricing of Cos is not really conducive to primeur purchasing. If anyone is determined to complete a...
View ArticleBordeaux Primeurs 15/4/2014
A mini deluge of wines on the market this morning, starting with Canon (£365), the 1er Grand Cru Classé Saint Emilion in the same ownership as Rauzan Ségla (also £365) which has already been released...
View Article2013 Bordeaux Primeur releases 16/04/2014 – Climens, Lafite
Just now we have seen the release of Lafite at £3200 per doz., or £1600 per six bottles in bond down a little on last year and by some distance (£2000 per doz) the cheapest Lafite in the market....
View Article2013 Bordeaux: View all latest releases and recommendations in chronological...
L&S recommendations are marked with this symbol Release dates are now shown under the wine title: http://www.leaandsandeman.co.uk/Recent-releases-261-02.html
View Article2013 Bordeaux Releases – 17/04 – Mouton Rothschild & Co. Palmer, Angelus & Pavie
There have been some big names like Mouton-Rothschild, Angelus and Chateau Palmer out today and some of our old favourites like Chateau Talbot or Clerc Milon, but it is hard to get overly excited....
View Article2013 Bordeaux 22/4 – Margaux, Meyney, d’Issan, Brane Cantenac, Troplong Mondot
Today's releases include Château Margaux (£2400) which we tasted well, and like Mouton Rothschild it sits comfortably in the market below any available vintage. Its second wine Pavillon Rouge is also...
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