At the Empanada market stall in Primrose Hill – Chango Empanadas by Juel Mahoney To celebrate Malbec World Day*, Bibendum and Argento Wine wanted to test whether a well-known idea in Argentina works on a rainy day in London. An idea that can be summed up as: Have Empanadas, Will Party. Empanadas are little pastry [...]
by Juel Mahoney Now, you might think we are biased but we LOVE Moscato d’Asti from Vietti here at Bibendum. There’s always an exciting electricity in the room whenever a bottle is opened. Oh, the anticipation… It is a sweet, frizzante, low alcohol wine at only 5.5% made in Piedmont in Italy. It tastes of peaches, rose [...]
By Juel Mahoney “We three kings of Pomerol are…” Ben Collins sang as he walked between the vines from La Conseillante to Vieux Chateau Certan (VCC) from L’Eglise Clinet. Next stop, Le Pin. What a difference a day makes. Today we are singing. Crossing the river from Bordeaux to Pomerol, we found a different story [...]
by Juel Mahoney Some people play politics, some play football. Then there are people who visit a windowless concrete cellar and taste hundreds of wines in what looks like a nuclear bunker. They play the game of Bordeaux En Primeur. This is how we spent yesterday. Unlike the day before, where we visited superstar Chateaux [...]
by Juel Mahoney, Our Woman in Pauillac Sitting at a superb lunch with our Bordeaux negociant in St Julien talking about possible pricing for 2011 Bordeaux we had a glass of 2004 Phelan Segur. Not the best vintage in the world for Bordeaux, a four-square wine which does not shout over the conversation with fruit [...]
t By Juel Mahoney The En Primeur season is about to start and Bibendum’s Fine Wine team will join the rest of the international wine trade to taste the Bordeaux 2011 vintage for a week…. Of The Greatest Wine Region In The World. Yes, there is a tendency towards superlatives when it comes to Bordeaux. [...]
By Rob Pickard This week Bibendum took over Altitude 360 at London’s Millbank Tower for our Spring Tasting, Bibendum LDN. You may remember last autumn’s event, Bibendum W1, which took place in the West End’s Chandos House. Following the success of W1, the recipe for LDN was more of the same, with a day and [...]
By Kat Hounsell Something rather special is happening this summer, and I’m not just talking about the big ‘O’. I am referring to the growing demand for English wines, which will be in full swing this summer when the world’s eyes will turn to our sunny little island. In honour of a summer of all [...]
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By Juel Mahoney “HEADING BACK TO BORDEAUX NEXT WEEK TO TASTE 2011s – ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST IN THIS VINTAGE IF MY instincts are correct.” 14 March, Robert M Parker, Jr on twitter. The collective gasp could be heard across the London Wine Trade. One tweet from Robert Parker is like a bombshell just before the world’s [...]