A Study in Contrasts

Recently my parents came to France for a weeklong visit. After a rather chaotic departure (on both sides of the Atlantic) we spent a rather interesting weekend in Paris before heading south to Bordeaux. And of course no visit to Bordeaux would be complete without a little wine tasting.

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Futures on the Right

IMG_1823Ok so after much procrastination and the interference of real life I am finally getting around to posting the final en Primeur post (we just aren’t going to talk about the fact that was actually at the beginning of the April).


After the Graves tasting on Monday and a day of magic on Tuesday, it was rather hard to rally early Wednesday morning for another long day of tasting unfinished wines. (Yes even us wine nerds do reach our limits sometimes) But rally I did, and of we went – this time to Bordeaux’ Right Bank.

 

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