Address: 33180 St Estèphe Telephone: +33 (0)5 56 77 11 50 E-mail: cuvelier.bordeaux@wanadoo.fr Website: www.cuvelier-bordeaux.com Château Le Crock is owned by the Cuvelier family of Château Léoville-Poyferré in St Julien. Generally this is big, black and extracted St Estèphe, a strong and full wine that needs time in bottle to show its best. 2009 is […]
October 2011 Don’t panic, rest easy. For those who invested heavily en primeur in Bordeaux 2009, either for their drinking pleasure, or to make a bob or two, I think your money’s safe. In Octover 2011 130 of Bordeaux’s finest chateaux, members of the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux, turned up as they do each year […]
November, 2011 Well it’s certainly interesting to compare the best and the worst that Bordeaux has offered in the past decade within a few weeks of each other. If October 2011’s Union des Grands Crus 2009 tasting showed the impressive heights to which red Bordeaux has recently soared, then November 2011’s Master of Wine Institute’s […]
The much speculated upon Lafite ’08 The MW Institute’s Annual Claret Tasting is almost too much of a good thing. Tasting all one hundred and twenty wines from Bordeaux’s finest districts requires steely determination, nifty footwork and a healthy dollop of over-ambition. You’ll also need to keep an eye on your watch as you’ve only a few hours. Then, […]
