To read my complete report on the 2011 harvest, please go HERE.

With some 1,350 hectares under vine, Margaux is the largest of four famous Medoc appellations in Bordeaux – including Pauillac, Saint Julien and Saint Estephe. AND: Most critics have also called it the most underperforming. Tasting Notes Pauillac has long featured Lafite-Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild and Latour, plus Pichon Baron, Pichon Comtesse, Lynch-Bages and Grand Puy […]

… A New Zealand wine tasting For the second time around and within its ‘extra-ordinary’ tastings cycle, Château Brane-Cantenac, second classified growth, Margaux, France, welcomed wineries from « elsewhere in the winemaking world » ! And boy am sorry to have missed this! Two years ago, Henri Lurton had opened the doors of Château Brane-Cantenac […]