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Bordoverview Blog

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Bordoverview Blog: about the classic wines from Bordeaux: news, fun facts, backgrounds, tasting notes and more.

• Added on: Oct 18th, 2007
• Country: Netherlands
• Language: English

• Author: David Bolomey
• Listed in: Food & Drink
• Tags: france Wine classic bordeaux tasting note medoc

Recent Posts

• On lunar golfing, Jefferson, Mozart and wine

  Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 14:43 in thomas jefferson, mozart, tasting notes, hermitage, michel chapoutier, yquem, marzemino, chante-alouette, eugenio rosi

  Dwayne Perreault − It's one of those useless questions, sort of like asking "What is it like to play golf on the moon?" but sometimes when I'm drinking a great wine, like a Hermitage or a Bordeaux grand cru classé, I can't help but wonder, "Wh...

• What we\'ve been drinking lately

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 14:03 in champagne, tasting notes, chablis, chassagne-montrachet, la parde de haut-bailly, frank phélan, labégorce-zédé, barnaut, david léclapart, vincent dauvissat, dom. ramonet

  Busy times for a wine merchant, December, but a blog needs to be fed. Perhaps my postings will be a little shorter these days. In this one I briefly mention some of the wines we've been drinking − some interesting, and some great.These first two bo...

• Taste Champagne and Sparkling 2009

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 14:47 in ferrari, bellavista, champagne, cava, sekt, bollinger, taittinger, laurent perrier, charles heidsieck

  Dwayne Perreault − There were plenty of corks popping, and that is always a happy sound. Proef Champagne en Sprankelend (Taste Champagne and Sparkling), Holland's largest sparkling wine trade show, took place at the Mövenpick Hotel in Amsterda...

• Drinking Château Prieuré de Cantenac 1929

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 07:28 in tasting notes, 1929, margaux, jan van roekel, ullage, brane-cantenac, chris kissack, frédéric bousset, prieuré de cantenac, prieuré-cantenac, the winedoctor

  Yesterday was one of those rare extreme wine experiences. We stepped into a time machine by drinking the Château Prieuré de Cantenac (or Prieuré-Cantenac) 1929, the Médoc 4th classed growth today known as Château Prieuré-Lichine. This bottle wa...

• Labégorce Zédé flung away

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 12:58 in decanter, jan van roekel, jane anson, labégorce, hubert perrodo, labégorce-zédé, luc thienpont, nathalie perrodo

  Driving over the Afsluitdijk at night, this weekend, Jan van Roekel and I discussed a wine that we had recently tasted, the Labégorce-Zédé 2006. The name will disappear, Jan had read somewhere. It didn't surprise me, but I found the news a little ...

• The downside of organoleptic development

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 16:13 in smelling, odours, robert parker, ilja gort

  Dwayne Perreault - Funny thing, the nose. We all have one and tend to take it for granted, but the nose is the most important organ used to judge wine and particularly to recognize wines. Furthermore, what we taste is directly related to what we smel...

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