I return to Bordeaux again this week after a fascinating recent vertical tasting and also because the wine world is full of talk of the potential of the 2016 vintage thanks to the recent en-primeur tastings.

SCHOOL’S out so many families will soon be packing up the car and driving to France to stay at camp-sites or perhaps rented gites.

WE’VE been in Bordeaux for a couple of days celebrating Jean Pierre Moullé’s significant birthday.

FORMER SociaI and Personal publisher Nell Stewart-Liberty is these days involved in running a winery and small boutique hotel in a 19th century chateau in Entre Deux Mers in the St Emilion area of France.

WE HAD a lovely invitation to spend a few days in the Bordeaux area with some French friends whose family have been making wine in the Pessac-Leognan, St Emilion, Margaux and Entre-deux-mers area since 1880.