• Bordeaux 2023: Our en primeur verdict and top-scoring wines

    Bordeaux 2023: Our en primeur verdict and top-scoring wines
    Another year of challenges and contrasts has produced a Bordeaux 2023 vintage that reflects both the warm and wet conditions of the year, as well as key winemaker decisions at crucial moments.
    The best wines have superior freshness and concentration, and will delight lovers of ‘classic’ Bordeaux wines. Quality can be found at every price point, yet the vintage is not a widespread success.
    Wines are also emerging en primeur onto a challenging market, and release prices may provide som
  • Bordeaux 2023 wine styles: What to expect

    Bordeaux 2023 wine styles: What to expect
    Tasting the 2023s at Cháteau Beau-Séjour BécotBordeaux 2023 wine styles broadly mark a contrast to both the concentrated, plush and hedonistic wines of 2022 and the cool, crisp, sometimes austere wines from 2021.
    They have elements of 2019 and 2020 in there, and some liken them to 2001, but they are really quite individual and set a new tone for fine, controlled and accessible Bordeaux.
    Alcohols are moderate, pHs are low and, where winemakers picked at the right time and pro
  • Distilled – The reopening of Port Ellen 'ghost distillery'

    Distilled – The reopening of Port Ellen 'ghost distillery'
    Legendary Port Ellen distillery reopens
    Reporting by Neil Ridley. See the full story here.
    Former ‘ghost distillery’ Port Ellen has been resurrected as part of a £185 million investment by Diageo. The Islay single malt distillery was founded in 1825, but mothballed in 1930. After reopening in 1967, it was closed again in 1983. Its last casks were stored nearby and over the following decades, they blossomed into an extraordinary, distinctly smoky single malt. In 2017, Diageo ann
  • Chinese fraudster jailed for five years for bottling fake Lafite and Petrus

    Chinese fraudster jailed for five years for bottling fake Lafite and Petrus
    Qi Moudao was also fined 250,000 yuan (£27,500) after he admitted to illegally bottling fake wines from prestigious Bordeaux châteaux.
    During the raid, police confiscated hundreds of bottles of branded wine, along with empty bottles, aluminium caps and bottling machines.
    Officers found that 33 of the counterfeit bottles were labelled as either Petrus, Château Lafite Rothschild or Pomerol.
    Another 29 bottles were branded as Carruades de Lafite 2017, which is the second wine of t
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