Ch Pontet Canet has been a rising star since 1994 under the management of Alfred Tesseron. He began practicing Draconian-like measures to extract the most potential from his top Pauillac property. This year he has now gone one step further and has ‘hired’ three new furry Pontet Canet team members.

Dinner at Brasserie de Noailles took on another dimension with Eugene, one of our highly charismatic Bordeaux negociant, when he decanted his strawberries and cream into his delicious glass of claret. It was an interesting combination!
The following day we visited the estate of the wine which he was drinking. Robin and I were […]

Bordeaux 2007
Last week three of the Goedhuis team went to Bordeaux to taste through 2007 barrel samples for the upcoming en primeur offer. Three more of our team will be there next week. 2007 is a particularly controversial vintage due to the unusual weather patterns

Final day was all about Graves, a wonderful tasting at Haut Brion, which was my favourite First Growth, and then to UGC Graves tasting where there were a good deal of whites on show as well as the reds -

Wednesday took us over to the Right bank for some Pomerol action first up. In fact we were so keen we were 30 minutes early for our first appointment so were champing at the bit when we were let in