As part of our Bordeaux 2022 En Primeur offer, we brought 400 customers and almost 60 producers together for a tasting of both the new wines and some older vintages. Alexandra Gray de Walden reports on how the evening unfolded.
On Tuesday 11th July, The Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Hall played host to our Bordeaux 2022 En Primeur customer tasting. The hall was opened in 1904 by King Edward VII and built to house exhibitions of exotic and tropical botany. I’m sure the infamous royal bon viveur would have approved of it welcoming a wealth of fine Clarets 118 years later.
After the hubbub of opening bottles and presenting tasting booklets and pencils for customers, a brief calm descended upon Lindley Hall. Our visitors from Bordeaux greeted one another as the good friends they are and our stage was set to welcome our customers to enjoy vintages old and new.
Vintage variation
The primary focus of the tasting was the 2022 vintage. Offered “En Primeur”, these wines are still in barrel, in cellars, quietly maturing. Our En Primeur offer had been in full swing for a few weeks already with customers making their purchases. This tasting provided an opportunity for them to sample the new, young wines.
As well as showing the 2022s, producers also brought a back vintage with them to taste alongside. This is a wonderful way of displaying how the wines change and evolve with age and crucially, how the 2022s will taste when
This Article was originally published on Barry's Wine Blog
