So said Neill Bassford, co-owner of Elk Run Vineyards in Maryland, veteran tour alumnus and one of the participants in our recently ended Bordeaux 201. Let me emphasize that this…
After today, I think all of us on the Bordeaux 201 tour have a better understanding of what Robert Parker means when he says a wine is “St Julien- like.”…
Today we started our quest for affordable bordeaux. After days of tastings at cru classé wineries, all of today’s visits were to cru bourgeois estates. The designation cru bourgeois was…
Today was dedicated to south of Bordeaux: Pessac, Graves and Sauternes. We started first thing at Haut-Bailly, a fabulous Pessac owned by an American that just received 98+ from the…
Today was our Cognac day. The weather was and has been magnificent and the two visits strikingly different. We started at Babinot, owned by the charming Pierrette and Christian Babinot,…

What would you do with $11,000 of aged bordeaux: drink or sell?