They had come from places like Columbia, Northwestern, Stanford, and Harvard to sit under the tableaux and tapestries at the French Consulate on Fifth Avenue, try wines and answer questions, competing to win the big prize: making it to the finals in Bordeaux. BordeauxMost teams got this one right. A: 1950). A: 10). A: 6). MORE >>

Bordeaux Bordeaux En Primeur News bordeaux en primeur professor dubourdieu"There are five essential conditions for a quality vintage," says famed professor Denis Dubourdieu, speaking in front of over a hundred journalists from virtually every corner of the world. Professor Dubourdieu explained the wines were selected blind. MORE >>

BordeauxChateau Latour to halt en primeur. After the 2011 vintage Chateau Latour, owned by billionaire Francois Pinault, will not pre-sell their wine as futures. What do you think? “That’s great. It’s good to see a billionaire doing the right thing for a change by not ripping off millionaires. Also, Salma Hayek is hot.” MORE >>

With all the hype about the Bordeaux campaign to pre-selling their 2010 wines, it made me think: surely there are more affordable, just as age-worthy alternatives out there. And, of course, for the prices Bordeaux futures are fetching, you could get plenty of Bordeaux with a decade or two of cellar age on them. Under $30. MORE >>

The problem is that 2009 is the greatest vintage I have ever tasted in Bordeaux. Here’s the list of Parker’s perfect 100-point Bordeaux 2009: Beausejour Duffau Lagarrosse. BordeauxRobert Parker’s The Wine Advocate has started arriving in mailboxes and issue #199 aas published on their site late yesterday. MORE >>