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André Simon Awards book extract: Inside Bordeaux


Ahead of this year’s 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 constantly worth assessing afresh.
When I moved here in 2003, the region was in the heat of the garagiste movement where 200 per cent new oak was something to be proud of, and ‘hang-time’ was the word of the day. As we stand now, more than sixteen years later, there is a clear evolution towards fresher, more sculpted wines, and towards winemaking that takes far m ....

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André Simon Awards shortlisted book: Intoxicating


Ahead of this year’s André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards, 
db is running extracts of all of the shortlisted drinks titles. Next up is
Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia by Max Allen.
Oz Clarke places a forty-year-old bottle of Coonawarra shiraz gently on the table. He’s been waiting a long time to open this. As he picks up his corkscrew, he sees my smartphone.
‘Do you want to video this?’ he says.
Of course I do. I’ve travelled all the way to Putney in South London, to the house of one of the world’s most famous wine writers, for this moment, to share his last remaining bottle of 1978 Kanga Rouge, a serious wine with a silly name made at a time when Australia’s reputation in the rest of the world was at an all-time low. It’s probably the last remaining bottle in the world. I absolutely want to document it for posterity – or at the very least post it as an Instagram story. I pick up my p ....

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