Wine ChroniclesChina’s Wine Future
As provided by ProWein: Specialist Article / June 2018 By Stuart Pigott & Paula Sidore All photos in this posting: Messe Düsseldorf/ctillmann 7 June 2018 While certainly few of us missed China’s rise to the position of a major economic power, that newly established prowess continues to fight the biased western preconception of wine and China. […]
Château Margaux: 40 years on
Vertical opulence, with Thibault Pontallier: 1978-2014 By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 2 June 2018 Over dinner on 9 May this year, I was lucky to attend a vertical of this magnificent first growth from the Médoc: the highly acclaimed – à juste titre – Château Margaux. Vintages included the first-ever under the Mentzelopoulos family, the 1978, […]
Domaine de Chevalier vertical 2016-2000 (red)
Consistency and excellence By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 28 May 2018 For several years now, I have been lucky enough to have enjoyed older vintages of wines both red and white from Domaine de Chevalier, a renowned estate from the Pessac-Léognan appellation of Graves in Bordeaux. From a vertical of the whites, I helped to […]
Margaux merits #Bdx17
The Médoc, Part III By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 24 May 2018 After examining Pauillac, Saint Julien and Saint Estèphe in Part I and Haut-Médoc, Listrac-Médoc and Moulis-en-Médoc in Part II, now to the barrel samples of Margaux. They include more classified growths than any other Médoc appellation: 21. Margaux is the only appellation whose sole […]
#Bdx17: The Médoc, part II
Assessing Haut-Médoc, Listrac-Médoc and Moulis-en-Médoc By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 21 May 2018 This section on #Bdx17 from barrel focuses on three Médoc appellations not as famous as those in Part I but known for quality wines at generally lower prices. Certain wines here indeed could constitute bargains… in the longer run. And as we […]
Graves in red and white #Bdx17
Some very fine reds, some even finer whites By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 18 May 2018 For your mid May weekend reading, my notes on barrel samples – red and white – of Bordeaux’s famous Graves region. They are Left Bank, but to the south of the Médoc. In the Pessac area, it was generally […]
Saint Julien Elegance
17 vintages of Château Lagrange (and more) by Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 13 May 2018 Bordeaux is not just about showing off expensive wines. Nor about maximum power and density. It shouldn’t be defined only as inexpensive Bordeaux AOC level wines, either. Such categories have their value and allure – to be sure. Earlier this month, […]
Pomerol Plaudits: Bordeaux 2017 from barrel
The small Bordeaux appellation with many 2017 hits By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 2 May 2018 As almost anywhere in Bordeaux, the best terroirs thrived, especially those with either minimal or no frost. Pomerol in spite of its rather small size, is no exception. As you can see in the photo, Christian Moueix of the […]
Bordeaux 2017
Bye-bye big buzz, hello nuance By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com 11 April 2018 It is mid week of the official en primeur week, when thousands of merchants and hacks like yours truly descend to Bordeaux to taste, swirl and spit hundreds of wines in a mad rush to get tasting notes and impressions published. But […]
Bordeaux 2017
The “multiple” vintage 8 April 2017 By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com “The only candle I lit was the one at church,” quipped Guillaume Thienpont of Vieux Château Certan, where the terrible frost of late April that struck many other estates in Bordeaux did not reach his estate. Some estates used large candles (or bougies) to […]
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