Bordeaux 2007

Haut Marbuzet 2007 sold well and I bought a lot of Château La Pointe 2007 (Pomerol) which will be one of the best investments in Pomerol in 3 years, if the investments and the choice of star oenologist are confirmed.

Another sure investment is Château Lafont Rochet in Saint Estèphe.

The Médoc is slowly opening to us. Friends of friends have been helping and the dynamism of our wine merchant business is becoming stronger. Of course, it doesn’t mean that, in addition to Château Mouton Rothschild, I will be getting allocations from other 1st Grand Crus in the near future… Well, this doesn’t prevent me from buying and selling some.
Still, let’s not forget that I have great wines from the Right Bank as well as the famous Pingus!

The 2007 notes from Jacques Dupont have just been published in the magazine Le Point and we have been spoiled: Special choice for Clos Badon and the highest note for Valandraud in the Saint Emilion Grand Cru section!

Bloody blog

Freedom…
The French seem to always know it all… Is freedom incompatible with wine?

This Beaumarchais saying “If censorship reigns, there cannot be sincere flattery”, and the slogan of France’s largest newspaper, “Le Figaro” (that’s fortunate!), is harder and harder to apply for journalists in the wine world. It is even harder for wine professionals who are only allowed to shut their mouth and keep their opinion for themselves.

If it is obvious for all of us that our freedom should not infringe on other’s freedom. However, it is difficult, today, to give our true opinion of a wine, even for me. I try to be as tactful as possible and my friend François Mauss won’t tell me to do otherwise.

When will the Guide for Good Manners be published exclusively for followers?
An oenologist is only allowed to say good things about the wines made by his colleagues. Otherwise, beware of the whip!

Stéphane Toutoundji (who I am not a client of) writes about it in his blog « Ras la bouteille » (“enough” – really appropriate in this case). I don’t know who he is writing about. I must have read it but forgot the part. He must have had to erase it. I simply hope that it is not about one of my friends who only wants good notes.
Actually, I don’t know of any cru from our area that everyone likes (except Mouton Rothschild 1945… but it is not a Saint Emilion).