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2024 Bordeaux Wine Magazines

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2024 November Bordeaux Wine Magazine: Coulon Laurensac 300 years young | Paris wine raids | and much more

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  • A Personal Note From Ronald
  • Chateau Coulon Laurensac, three centuries young!
  • A Chateau built by a crook
  • Ronald and Margaret carry on the legacy
  • A “bad vintage” for fine wine thefts
  • Our 2025 Bordeaux Wine Tour Program
  • And much more

 

2024 October Bordeaux Wine Magazine: A Happy Highlight | A Challenging 2024 Vintage | White Pauillac Wine, and much more

  • The 2024 Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour 2 tasting First Growths at the Farewell dinner at Chateau Coulon Laurensac

    The 2024 Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour 2 tasting First Growths at the Farewell dinner at Chateau Coulon Laurensac

    A Personal Note From Ronald

  • The best compliment we can get
  • Bring it on, you single travelers, join us now
  • Farewell Dinner: A happy highlight and a slightly sad moment…
  • Pichon Baron launches a new white wine from Pauillac
  • And much more
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2024 August Bordeaux Wine Magazine: Introducing Don Vito | Discovering Cognac and much more

  • A Personal Note From Ronald
  • Introducing Don Vito
  • Cheating on Bordeaux in Cognac
  • The five star Hotel Chais Monnet & Spa
  • A dining experience in restaurant Les Foudres
  • And much more

2024 April Bordeaux Wine Magazine: Wine and Opera: passion, emotion, perfection, and much more

  • A Personal Note From Ronald
  • Explore Bordeaux with us in 2025!
  • Wine and Opera: passion and emotion
  • A shared experience, a shared emotion
  • Wine and art
  • And much more

2024 February 2 Bordeaux Wine Magazine: 🍷A new White Margaux, Cellar Confessions 2, and much more

  • Arlene and Mike YaxA Personal Note From Ronald
  • Spring is in the air in Bordeaux
  • Second white wine released by Chateau Margaux
  • Cellar Confessions 2: Mike’s wine cellar
  • and much more

2024 February Bordeaux Wine Magazine: 2025 Bordeaux Wine Tour Schedule released 🍇 Pessac-Leognan rebranded and much more

  • A Personal Note From Ronald
  • 2025 Bordeaux Wine Tour Schedule released
  • Snow in Bordeaux
  • Pessac-Léognan rebranded
  • And much more

2023 Bordeaux Wine Magazines

2023 December 2 Bordeaux Wine Magazine: Cellar Confessions; New label Mouton; Tour Bordeaux in 2024 and much more

  • Cellar Confessions 1: Joe’s wine cellar

    A Personal Note From Ronald

  • Cellar Confessions; The adventure of creating your own wine cellar
  • Cellar Confessions 1: Joe’s wine cellar
  • New label Mouton Rothschild 2021 revealed
  • Our 2024 Bordeaux Wine Tour Program
  • And much more

 

2023 December 1 Bordeaux Wine Magazine: All roads lead to Bordeaux | Building your wine cellar | and much more

  • Different ways to travel to Bordeaux

    Different ways to travel to Bordeaux

    A Personal Note From Ronald

  • All roads lead to Bordeaux. Different ways to travel to Bordeaux
  • The adventure of creating your wine cellar
  • Our 2024 Bordeaux Wine Tour Program
  • And much more

 

2023 November Bordeaux Wine Magazine: Ronald vintage-challenged | Join us in 2024 | and much more

  • A 65-year-old celebration wine

    A 65-year-old celebration wine

    A Personal Note From Ronald

  • Vintage challenged, celebrating with a 65-year-old celebration wine
  • Maybe the best Cognac in the world?
  • Tasting Mouton Rothschild 1989 from magnum.
  • Our 2024 Bordeaux Wine Tour Program
  • And much more

 

2023 April Bordeaux Wine Magazine: Why some vacations are an experience and others just a tour?

  • Making memories of a lifetime

    Making memories of a lifetime

    A Personal Note From Ronald

  • Why some vacations feel like an experience and others just like a tour
  • Memories of a lifetime
  • Our 2024 Bordeaux Wine Tour Program
  • And much more

 

2023 February Bordeaux Wine Magazine: 2024 Bordeaux Tours | Ronald on strike? | Behind the tour scenes, and much more

  • A Personal Note From Ronald
  • To strike or not to strike, that is the question
  • French strikes explained…
  • You can’t make this sh*t up
  • Blaming King Louis XIV
  • Our Bordeaux Wine Tours, behind the scenes
  • Our 2024 Bordeaux Wine Tour Program
  • And much more

2023 January Bordeaux Wine Magazine:Lascombes sold | New label Mouton | Bordeaux Harvest Tour Trailer, and much more

  • My “Indiana Jones Harvest Tour Trailer”

    My “Indiana Jones Harvest Tour Trailer”

    A Personal Note From Ronald

  • My “Indiana Jones Harvest Tour Trailer”
  • New owner for Margaux Second Growth Lascombes
  • New label Mouton Rothschild 2020 revealed
  • A TripAdvisor review of the Bordeaux Harvest tour
  • Our 2023 Bordeaux Wine Tour Program
  • And much more

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