Decanter Bordeaux 2020 releases: Chanel’s Berliquet ‘one to watch’
St-Emilion’s Château Berliquet and Margaux s Prieuré-Lichine have been among this week s early releases, as we also look at sales highlights in a fledgling en primeur campaign still awaiting many big names.
Fine & Rare was offering six bottles in bond for £218.
‘Berliquet is becoming a true St-Émilion gem to watch,’ it said. The vintage’s quality and the estate’s trajectory could make the 2020 ‘worth snapping up’, despite it being ‘the most expensive Berliquet on the market’, the group said.
Farr Vintners listed the wine as ‘sold out’ by Wednesday morning (26 May).
Bordeaux 2018 revisited: Saint-Emilion 17th March, 2021 by Colin Hay
In the first of a series of appellation profiles to be published over the next few months, our Bordeaux correspondent,
Colin Hay, revisits the 2018 vintage in Saint-Emilion, providing an overview of the appellation in this challenging, heterogeneous yet potentially excellent vintage, and detailed tasting notes on 179 wines. His Pomerol profile will follow shortly, with articles on each of the leading appellations of the Médoc and Pessac-Léognan to be published later in the year.
My overview of the 2018 vintage – enthusiastically drafted, as I recall, on the train back from Bordeaux after