Bordeaux Archives

A new book on the Bordeaux appellation is a clear-eyed and comprehensive start to an indispensable reference series.

By Raymond Blake

The promising progress of a rare foreign producer making forays into France’s most celebrated vineyards.

By Simon Field MW

What are the best wines to drink with the Bordelais Christmas dish of oysters with truffled meat patties?

By Joanna Simon

The perennially underperforming Margaux second-growth is being transformed by a German polymath winemaker.

By Simon Field MW

Often dismissed as a vinous backwater, the Entre-Deux-Mers is in fact the very heart of Bordeaux.

By Colin Gent MW

How did the late Bordeaux professor exert such a powerful and lasting influence on the wine world?

By Frank Ward

Fifteen years since Ets Jean-Pierre Moueix acquired the estate, Château Bélair-Monange is scaling new heights in St-Emilion.

By Panos Kakaviatos

Margaret Rand meets the Bordelais consultant winemaker whose work as a scientist transformed our understanding of wine faults.

By Margaret Rand