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Bordeaux

Judgement of Beijing: Ningxia wines top Bordeaux

18/12/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Four Chinese wines did better than Bordeaux wines in a small blind tasting competition of 10 wines, in Beijing 14 December: shades of the Judgement of Paris competition in 1976 that shook French growers to their roots and put US wines on the world’s sommelier maps. The Chinese wine market is widely […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Bordeaux, China, Helan mountains, Ningxia Province, Production, winning wines

Wine investors: drinkers and investors won during the financial crisis

04/04/2010 by Ellen Wallace

There are two types of wine investors: those who buy wines they want to explore, and who set them aside for later when the sensory value will have increased, and those who buy, gambling that the price will rise neatly. The investors will either sell it or open the bottle when it is time to […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: antoine Christophe Betrisy, Aosta Valley, Archevesque, Bordeaux, Côtes du Rhone, Cully, definition fine wine, Ermitage, fine wines, France, Fumin, Gialdi Vini, grapes, Harvests, Hermitage, investors, Italy, Jancis Robinson, Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, Lavaux region, Louis Bovard, Marsanne, Medinette, Memoire des Vins Suisses, producers, regions, research, research Philippe Massey, Rèze, Roussanne, St Saphorin, Swiss wines, Switzerland, Ticino, Unesco World Heritage site, US - California, Valais, Vaud, vineyards, vintage, vintages, white wines, wine-tasting, wineries

Bordeaux in hand, the wine writer is back

21/04/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Winter is a lovely time for drinking wine, and let’s be clear, drinking is not the same as tasting. We’ve had guests in the mountains, where we opened big hearty red wines from Spain to have with roasts, and other friends with whom we compared fendants from Valais over raclette (cheese melted over potatoes) next […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Bordeaux, Chateau Corbin, Saint Emilion, vins primeurs, young wines

Put in your order for Chinese Bordeaux wine, vintage 2020

30/03/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Things are heating up in Bordeaux, France, with the tasting sessions for the primeurs, or new wines, starting today (30 March). Wednesday I’ll be joining 1,000 other journalists and wine writers who descend on the area, for three days of tastings and talking to producers. Meanwhile, Bordeaux winemakers are taking advantage of the wine world’s […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Bordeaux, China, France, Shandong, wine

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