Posts Tagged ‘Château Margaux’
Chez Philip & Cathy II
Posted by Frank Ward on August 29, 2018
Posted in Oenophilia | Tagged: Brunello di Montalcino, Château Guiraud, Château Margaux, Château Rauzan Ségla, Clos des Papes, Daumas Gassac, Giesen, Herbert Hall Brut, Il Poggione, Matthews Lane The Fuder, Mount Edelstone Shiraz | Leave a Comment »
Château Margaux and the City of Bordeaux
Posted by Frank Ward on August 30, 2015
August 2015. On my way to attend a banquet at Château Margaux, given “in honour of the international press”, I got to thinking about how to make the very best of the trip down to Bordeaux, over and above the pleasure afforded by the convivial gathering that awaited me – and several hundred others – at that renowned First Growth. After all, international travel is time-consuming, even if inside Europe, so you should extract as much as you can from each and every single trip. Every hour of our short life is precious; and every hour of boredom erodes the quality of that life. [….]
Posted in Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Tasting notes | Tagged: 1988 Yquem, 1989 Desmirail, 1996 Talbot, Bordeaux, Château Margaux, Château Margaux 1985, Conseil des Grands Crus Classés en 1855, Corinne Mentzelopoulos, Denis Lurton, Guy Savoy, Guy Tesseron, john kolasa, Napoleon III, restaurant Le Chapon Fin, Stephen Brook, Steven Spurrier | Leave a Comment »



