the wine thinker

Following up my post on Madness in Bordeaux… I hesitate to give a Bordelais negociant a history lesson, but when Patrick Bernard of Millesima suggests that  “For over two centuries, the Bordeaux Grands Crus Classés sell their harvest en primeur, in springtime, to the Bordeaux Negociants.” I don’t think he’s being strictly accurate. The modern […]

“What Latour did last year was madness” I’m not sure what qualifications Patrick Bernard, founder of Bordeaux negociants Millésima may have to diagnose mental illness, but I’m not rushing to recommend him as a psychiatrist.  Let’s analyse precisely what Latour did in fact do last year. It – it the form of director Frederic Engerer – […]