Colin Hay
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Château Climens re-releases its âdivaâ 1996 vintage (opens the original)
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Château Climens has returned to its cellars to re-release a limited quantity of its 1996 Barsac, including just 12 double-magnums. dbâs Bordeaux correspondent Colin Hay revisits a vintage once described by former owner Bérénice Lurton as a âdivaâ and finds it on sublime form. September is increasingly famous on la place de Bordeaux for the release of its autumn collection of wines from beyond Bordeaux. But we shouldnât overlook the growing, if still small, number of top Bordeaux re-re
Château Lascombes releases second vintage of La Côte (opens the original)
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Château Lascombes has released the second vintage of La Côte, its 100% Merlot cuvée from five hectares of rare limestone and blue clay terroir in Margaux. dbâs Bordeaux correspondent Colin Hay examines the 2023 vintage, the first overseen in its entirety by estate director Axel Heinz. That the new vision for the 120 hectares under vine at Margaux second growth Château Lascombes would involve a new wine, a monocépage wine, and a monocépage Merlot at that, now seems not just logical but fÃ
Château Palmer re-releases the exceptional 2016 vintage from its cellars (opens the original)
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Today (9 September) sees Château Palmerâs glorious 2016 vintage re-released on La Place de Bordeaux, ten years after it was first release, now with a decade of ageing in the propertyâs cellars. It follows the release of the equivalently iconic â if very different â 2015 last year and is certain to attract considerable interest in a market that now seems slowly to be picking up and which has never been cold for wines of a certain age and a certain quality. The 2016 is the third vintage t
What to expect from La Placeâs hors Bordeaux Autumn collection 2026 (opens the original)
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Following the Springâs lacklustre Bordeaux en primeur campaign, thereâs is a sombre mood at the La Place de Bordeaux. But just as rumours of en primeurâs death were exaggerated, there is a steely determinism amongst the leading négociants for the autumn hors Bordeaux releases, reports dbâs Bordeaux correspondent Colin Hay. Despite the universal acclaim for the quality of the 2025 vintage itself, en primeur hardly bucked the recent trend â even if, several months after the first relea
Bibi Graetz reflects on leaving La Place de Bordeaux (opens the original)
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On a recent visit to Tuscany, db’s Bordeaux correspondent, Colin Hay talked to Bibi Graetz about his decision to leave La place de Bordeaux and his ambition, which has always been “to make better and better wines”. It is hardly a jealously guarded secret that the world of fine wine is today in crisis. And crisis is an accelerator of change. One symptom of that change is the rapid evolution of La Place de Bordeaux, notably with respect to its offering of wines from beyond Bordeaux itself. I took
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