By Panos Kakaviatos BORDEAUX 2011 FROM BOTTLE – Park Hyatt Hotel, Washington D.C. (1/17/2014) – as posted on Cellar Tracker, but with a few score revisions one day afterwards. With some trepidation I tasted 2011 Bordeaux from bottle. It came after two “vintages of the century” in 2009-2010 and inaugurated three non vintages of the century […]

Bordeaux 2011: a mixed bag where one can find some red wine gold nuggets – Calon Segur, anyone? VCC? – but the whites are your best bet.

Kudos to Chateau Branaire Ducru in St Julien for providing us with internet access as we sit and taste blind 34 wines from the northern Medoc. Since I liked Calon Segur so much, I am starting with the St Estephes today… And will post notes live so to speak, or at least just after. I […]

April 8, Sunday. Back from Bordeaux and will create a new webpage with all the tasting notes this long weekend. The dry whites were often terrific, including Pavilion Blanc de Margaux and especially the whites of Haut Brion and La Mission Haut Brion, more successful to me at least than the red counterparts in 2011. […]