Our first day tasting the 2009s started with a few negociant tastings in the centre of Bordeaux. At 9am, tasting my first ever Bordeaux en primeur sample was, to say the least, challenging.

Last week I was lucky enough to go on my first trip to Bordeaux to taste the 2009s at the very best chateaux. Our group was dubbed ‘the chairman’s group’ that comprised

The home straight – the fourth and final day and we are off to the Graves and Pessac-Leognan. Slightly further south than the rest of the Left Bank there is a chance

The third day of UGC week has been designated Right Bank day. I view this with some trepidation. My taste naturally inclines to the Left Bank and, in a vintage

Only ten minutes before check-out time at the hotel, so the quickest of snapshots of the day three in Bordeaux on the Right Bank. Ridiculous thunderstorms