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Justerini & Brooks' Bordeaux Tasting

Tuesday 8^th March 2016

by Tom Jenkins

‘Long overdue’ was the cry from members of the press and clients alike. It was over ten years since Justerinis hosted a Bordeaux tasting.

Unlike Burgundy, Rhone, Loire, Germany and Piedmont, there is no annual Justerini & Brooks’ tasting for the largest fine wine producing region of them all! We decided it was high time to put this right. After several years of lost ground to other regions, Bordeaux’s fortunes are a-changin’ (as you will see with the 2015s). There’s plenty of fight left in the grand old Chateaux of Aquitaine…

Bordeaux 2015 Teaser

Wednesday 9^th March 2016

by Tom Jenkins

“15 is the perfect opportunity to get back to Bordeaux. Analytically the wines are very impressive, lots of concentration and good pH… I can never remember a vintage where the mid-palates have been so sweet and so exuberant and delightful to taste… It’s going to rank up there with one of the best vintages of Bordeaux in the last 20 or so years.”

- Tom Jenkins, Bordeaux Buyer

The striking and seductive 2012s

Thursday 17^th March 2016

by Giles Burke-Gaffney

Is there a more addictive and fascinating wine landscape than Piedmont? Not as far as this buying team are concerned.

Our trip last week was timed perfectly, the intricate mosaic of vineyards that covers the Langhe and its link to wine quality was visually brought to life by the snow that had fallen days before our arrival. Blankets of white covered the less well-exposed and higher sites, whilst on prime Nebbiolo land the soils were entirely exposed to the elements. Even within adjacent vineyard parcels a south-eastern tilt was white as a sheet, whilst the southwest exposure of the neighbouring plot had melted the snow away.