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A Trip to Nice

Another in a series of posts from France by Morgan Twain-Peterson.
I am back in Bordeaux, this time stationed at Les Ormes de Pez, the smaller chateau owned by the Cazes. Though I loved living with the other interns at our little villa the village of Bages—the house was like a bad joke or sitcom [...]

More of Morgan’s Musings - The Pichons

As you can probably tell by now there are a lot of chateau clustered in the Medoc. Their grand facades, some in better repair than others, are probably the greatest outward manifestation of the high amount of wealth that is concentrated here. Almost all labels of chateau show the picture of the building, [...]

More from Morgan: Ch. Leoville-Barton and Ch. Langoa-Barton

St. Julien is home to the highest proportion of classed growths of the four major communes of the Medoc. It is also the smallest of the communes. Located just south of Pauillac, the vineyards of the “Leoville� wines, those of Ch. Leoville-Las-Cases in this case, begin where those of Ch. Latour and Pichon-Lalande [...]

Morgan Visits Chateau Palmer

Another in the Morgan Does Bordeaux series.
When I woke up early on Tuesday morning, after the storms had knocked out the power and the alarm, I had a wave of fear run through me. Was I going to be too late for my appointment to Chateau Palmer? Luckily, I heard Antoine stirring in [...]

Morgan Visits Chateau Rauzan-Segla -
“No Micro Ox Here!”

Another in a series of Morgan’s dispatches from Bordeaux. Look for part two of yesterday’s post on Wine Sediments later this week.
This morning I awoke to a heavy gloom. Thunderheads bumped shoulders in the distance, darkening the Medoc from Margaux to Pauillac. Deciding to be optimistic I left the skylight to my room open [...]