July 2015. I’ve twice been to Lutyens restaurant on Fleet Street in the last year, in both instances for a dinner combined with a vertical tasting of wines from Bordeaux estates. On this second occasion the Château in question was Calon Ségur – a property I’ve always respected, and even had a kind of nostalgia for, since drinking a quite wonderful 1947 with the late owner, Philippe Gasqueton, at his dinner table at the Château many years ago. Lutyens is a restaurant I might never have visited had I not chosen to attend those two dinners. [….]
Posts Tagged ‘Jancis Robinson’
Calon Ségur Tasting & Visit to Manoir des Quat’Saisons
Posted by Frank Ward on July 14, 2015
Posted in Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Gastronomy, Tasting notes | Tagged: 89' Haut Brion, Beaujolais, Bordeaux, Calon Ségur, Jancis Robinson, Jean Foillard, Julien Sunier, Lutyens, Manoir des Quat'Saisons, Philippe Gasqueton, The European | Leave a Comment »
The Nectar of the Gods: Frank Ward on investing in wine
Posted by Frank Ward on December 5, 2013
There are two chief motives for investing in wine. Monetary gain is one; buying young, high-quality wines and waiting for them to improve, for the delectation of you and your friends, is the other. A bottle of good wine is a time capsule. Without moving an inch it makes a journey through time and becomes utterly transformed in the process. The aggressive tannins and acids in infant wine soften and harmonize slowly, transmuting into perfumes and flavours of astonishing beauty. […]
Posted in Oenophilia | Tagged: Andrew Jefford, Domaine Rousseau, Farn Vintners, Frank Ward, Hugh Johnson, in bond, investing in wine, Jancis Robinson, O.W. Loeb, Roberson, Robert Parker | Leave a Comment »