André Simon Awards book extract: Inside Bordeaux
Ahead of this yearâs André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards, db is running extracts of all of the shortlisted drinks titles. The final work is Inside Bordeaux: the châteaux, their wines and the terroir by Jane Anson. Is it possible to write something new on a region that has been so widely covered, studied, dissected, discarded, rediscovered, fought over, loved, despised⦠rinse-and-repeat? I hope that even a brief dip into Inside Bordeaux will answer that question, and show that despite often being presented as set in stone, Bordeaux is continually evolving and con...