The in-bottle report of the 2016 Bordeaux vintage in The Wine Advocate has seen eight wines given the top score of 100-points with Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW calling the vintage the “most consistently great” since 2009 and 2010 but also a new benchmark.
Château Mouton Rothschild has announced it is to auction limited edition sets of its wines to help fund restoration projects at the palace of Versailles.
This week in Hong Kong's drinks trade: the Great Wines of Italy Asia tour returns; Japan's leading winery Château Mercian stages a masterclass with Jeannie Cho Lee MW and Kenichi Ohashi MW; and Bordeaux's 2015 vintage comes to the fore at this year's UGCB tasting.