The Bordeaux En Primeur System
The en primeur campaign will soon be underway so we are taking a look into what it is, its history and how you can buy en primeur wines.
2022 EN PRIMEURS: What’s the latest coming out of Bordeaux?
Catch up with the lastest news from from the 2022 Primeurs campaign - a new invoicing system, a new English website, and alerts.
En Primeur | Bordeaux 2022 Vintage: Weather conditions and wine profiles
A review of 2022 in Bordeaux’s vineyards and an analysis of the first samples tasted. A snapshot.
Bordeaux 2011-2014 for every style and pocket
Following the 2014 En Primeur tastings last month – when the wine world quite literally descended on Bordeaux – a group of grands crus producers recently crossed the English Channel to present their 2011 to 2014 wines to London’s trade and media. A matter of price The price of Bordeaux is constantly in the limelight, from the hype surrounding the annual En Primeur campaigns, to the high auction prices often achieved by prestigious first growths. While prices of the top wines have been slowing over the last year (the iDealwine iDealwine indicefor Bordeaux…
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Biodynamic, organic, sustainable?
An introduction to sustainability Impossible to miss, this yearly “grande messe” of the En Primeur, where about 5,000 wine trade and press gather talking, gossiping, swirling, spitting, bashing or praising the new releases. For my second year of this tasting, I was glad to discover a better vintage than 2013. Part of the iDealwine team of four visiting this year, we tasted hundreds of extremely (often too) young juices full of tannins and anthocyanins, all the way from the left to the right bank. We finished our two-day visit with obviously black teeth,…
Bordeaux 2014: a question of price
In the aftermath of the 2014 Bordeaux En Primeur tastings, the question on everyone's mind is what prices will these wines be sold for? Every year, the En Primeur tastings draw the world’s media to Bordeaux, who evaluate and rate the wines, trying to identify specific strengths and flaws. Stakeholders unanimously hold their breath until the publication of tasting notes, which award some wines as “excellent”, while others "could improve" and some are even ”banished to the corner...”. Until a few years ago, the most awaited report was that of Robert Parker. But…