Posts tagged as:

Bordeaux

Bordeaux White Wines

16 April 2012
Thumbnail image for Bordeaux White Wines

Think of wine from France’s Bordeaux region and almost inevitably red wine comes to mind. This huge, world famous wine region is renowned for the quality of its red wines and some of the world’s most expensive wines are produced here. However, Bordeaux is not just about red wine. There is plenty of white wine [...]

Read the full article →

Château Bouscaut White 2010

9 November 2011
Thumbnail image for Château Bouscaut White 2010

…or should that be ‘Blanc‘? Probably. Either way it certainly would have helped us work out what this Bordeaux actually was before we opened it to accompany a Saturday evening run-through of retro ’70s board game, Kingmaker, last weekend. A friend brough the bottle along, having been given it by his sister, who in turn [...]

Read the full article →

Chateau Climens 1983 – a Classic Dessert Wine

12 October 2011
Thumbnail image for Chateau Climens 1983 – a Classic Dessert Wine

One of the best ways to end a meal, in my opinion, is with a glass of dessert wine. One of the most famous dessert wine-producing regions in the world is in Bordeaux. The wines of Sauternes and Barsac-Sauternes come from the southern part of the region and are usually made with either Sauvignon Blanc [...]

Read the full article →

White Bordeaux: Chateaux Tour Leognan 2008

31 March 2011
Thumbnail image for White Bordeaux: Chateaux Tour Leognan 2008

While Bordeaux may be most well known for its red wines, it also produces good, dry white wines. There is of course, the famous sweet white, Sauternes, but for today I’m only talking about the dry whites of Bordeaux. White wine can come from anywhere in Bordeaux but the most well known region for dry white [...]

Read the full article →