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June 2, 2011

The wait continues

With the French au repos for Ascension Day, there's little chance of any 2010 releases today (or tomorrow). As one irreverent Tweeter observed, "the Bordelais…

May 19, 2011

Beychevelle rocks the boat

  After temporarily drying up yesterday, today's 2010 releases from Bordeaux include Fourth and Fifth Growths Beychevelle and Cantemerle. The…

May 18, 2011

IWC on Bordeaux 2010

One of the final pieces in the 2010 puzzle, Ian D'Agata of Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar has published his somewhat discordant take…

May 17, 2011

2010 campaign gathers pace

The past few days have seen the first stirrings of this year's En Primeur campaign. A number of well-known names from…

May 6, 2011

This week’s top 2010s

Having unveiled his views on the "prodigious" 2010s, Parker scores have been added to the Liv-ex Total Score calculation –…

May 4, 2011

Parker downgrades 2008

Following the en primeur tastings two years ago, the general feeling amongst the trade and the critics was that the…