Bordeaux
Bordeaux 2025 – En Primeur So Far
With the Bordelais flocking to Vinexpo in Hong Kong this week, en primeur releases are taking a brea...
A New New Normal for Lafleur
As reported in 2025 Bordeaux at a Glance, one of the hot topics of gossip in Bordeaux this year cent...
The M&M Show: En Primeur Bordeaux 2025
Introducing the latest episode of The M&M Show – Matthew Hemming MW and Miles Davis turn their a...
2025 Bordeaux At A Glance
In two sentences, why should I pay attention to another Bordeaux vintage?
2025 is like a great ...
Bordeaux 2025 Vintage Report – by Matthew Hemming MW
2025 Bordeaux – just what the doctor ordered?
Seemingly against all expectations, Bordeaux’s 2025 v...
2025 Bordeaux En Primeur Preview
Once again, one of the biggest events in the annual fine wine calendar is upon us, Bordeaux En Prime...
Sauternes – The Enigma!
Recent Releases
Given our relative success selling the latest 2023 vintage releases from Chateau d’...
Save the Date: Bordeaux 2025 En Primeur Coming Soon
Next month, the fine wine world will turn its gaze toward the Gironde for the 2025 Bordeaux En Prime...
2016 Bordeaux – Re-visited at 10 Years Old
After immersing myself in 150ish examples of the best of Bordeaux 2016 earlier this month, I’m convi...
Coming Soon: The 100 Point 2019 Chateau Latour
Tuesday 17th March sees one of the big fine wine releases of the year, a new vintage of Chateau Lato...
Southwold-on-Thames – Bordeaux 2022 Gets The Treatment
After a marathon blind tasting of some 250 of Bordeaux’s finest 2022s, a few things are clear:
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Chapeau à Château Lafleur!
In a surprise announcement earlier this week Château Lafleur, very politely and respectfully, declar...
Beyond Bordeaux: September Releases Preview
The fine wine trade springs back to life in September after the traditionally sleepy summer months. ...
The Wines We Drink!!
One of the internal chat groups at Vinum Fine Wines goes by the name of ‘The Wines We Drink’.There m...
Les Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) Come to Town (London)
It is not everyday that the noble house of Les Domaines Barons de Rothschild Lafite Baron de Rothsch...
Redefining the Fine Wine Experience: Wanderthirst, Dujac Paulée & La Gaffelière Dinners
If there’s one thing I’ve been thinking about lately, it’s how much the fine wine world still leans ...
Cos d’Estournel Tasting, June 2025
In June this year, the UK team in London was treated to a back-vintage tasting courtesy of famed St ...
Where We Eat In Bordeaux
Far from an exhaustive list of Bordeaux restaurants – I’m not sure I have sufficient appetite to und...
Bordeaux En Primeur 2024 Diary: Day 2 & 3
Day 2
Today we really got into the meat and potatoes of Pomerol, taking a deep dive into some of th...
Bordeaux 2024 En Primeur – Day 1
No one tasting in Bordeaux this week can be unaware of the jungle drums’ beat on this vintage. Every...
Standout Wines From A Few Days in Bordeaux
In March I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Bordeaux with a friend from Singapore. Our trip ...
2015 Bordeaux: Ten Years On Tasting
Tasting 2015 Bordeaux Ten Years From The Vintage
Amongst the upper echelons, there are outstanding ...
2016 Chateau Latour, Previewing The Highly Anticipated New Release
Has there been a stronger trio of Latour releases since the wine came off the En Primeur system back...
A Fresh Look At 2017 Burgundy & Bordeaux
It is perhaps no secret that the 2017 vintage in Burgundy is offering a great deal of drinking pleas...
The Asian Wine Market: In conversation with Timothy Goh of Vinum Fine Wines
Timothy Goh, Sales Director of Vinum Fine Wines Singapore, joins Sarah Kemp on The Wines Conversatio...
Chateaux Lynch Bages & Pichon Lalande: Six Vintages, 2005-1966
This was a recent tasting I led for my local tasting group, the Jeroboam Club, in the UK. They had s...
Decant / De-can’t, When Do You Pour Yours?
Pouring wine from a bottle into another serving vessel, to remove sediment or aid oxygenation, shoul...
How To Start A Wine Collection
Collecting wine is a fantastic hobby. Buying special cases or bottles, tucking them away and thinkin...
A First Look at September’s Most Anticipated Wine Releases
Get Ready for an Exceptional September 2024!
While August is traditionally one of the slower months...
Bordeaux 2023 – Vintage Report
Bordeaux 2023 is a vintage born out of an adversity that stretched from the climatic to market condi...
2023 Bordeaux First Impressions
This is a short, overview report so let’s cut straight to the chase: in 20 years of primeurs tasting...
2023 Bordeaux En Primeur Is Coming
It’s that time of year again, Bordeaux En Primeur is just around the corner. We expect the first rel...
Bordeaux 2020: Southwold Tasting Report
2020 is a remarkably consistent, extremely high quality, year for red Bordeaux. The wines are much m...
Tasting Superstar Bordeaux: Chateau Canon and Chateau Rauzan-Segla
Members of the Vinum UK team recently spent some time with Jean-Basil Roland from Chateau Rauzan-Seg...
Beausejour Duffau Lagarrosse: One of Bordeaux’s Great Terroirs
In November 2023, the London team were treated to a tasting with Josephine Duffau-Lagarrosse of St E...
The Bordeaux First Growths: The Left Bank’s Great Estates
The five Bordeaux First Growths: Latour, Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Margaux and Haut Brio...
Beyond Bordeaux & Back Again
September's suite of fine wine releases from La Place de Bordeaux is now well established in our cal...
Bordeaux 2022 vintage report
The cellars of Chateau Montrose house one of the great 2022s.
Having spent a week immersed in 2022 ...
Tasting report: Bordeaux 2000
A review of 2000 Bordeaux with the Jeroboam Club tasting group in Bristol
Chateau Roc de Cambes 200...
2022 Bordeaux: First Impressions Ahead Of The Upcoming En Primeur Campaign by Matthew Hemming MW
During the week before Easter Vinum’s Vice Chairman, Lindsay Hamilton, and I spent a couple of days ...
Cheval Blanc Tasting
On Wednesday this week, the Vinum UK team tasted through a range of wines from the Cheval Blanc stab...
Bordeaux 2019 – Full report from the 2023 Southwold tasting
The 2019 Bordeaux campaign nearly fell victim to the pandemic; the recent Southwold tasting left me ...
Bordeaux 2018 – Full Report from the 2022 Southwold Tasting
Having been interrupted by ‘you know what’ last year, in 2022 the Southwold Tasting returned to its ...