The 2022 Primeurs I first arrived in Bordeaux as a stagiaire in 1979 and worked the vintage at Château Paveil de Luze, near Soussans and close to Margaux. After a long time selling Bordeaux wines through live and silent bid wine auctions, Stewart Langton and I decided to jump in and import Bordeaux wines en primeur for Langton’s clientele. I have been regularly travelling to Bordeaux most Aprils to assess and report on the vintage for around 20 years. Unlike some of the key wine critics who spend several weeks tasting through every highway and byway of Bordeaux, we have always mainly concentrated on those wines imported into Australia. Over the years it has become more and more complicated to taste all of the wines. Many Châteaux insist on wine critics coming to their estates to taste their wines. The list gets longer and longer, and the appointments have become more of a struggle to manage. This year, I worked with Caroline Matthews of Bordeaux Uncorked and Emma Thienpont of International First Growths
Bordeaux 2022
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Château Palmer
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