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By 0Saint-Emilion, Wine

By Colin Gent MW. Originally published in WORLD OF FINE WINE, June 2026 Bordeaux is in crisis, we are repeatedly told. People are not interested in its wines anymore, people are no longer interested in wine, full stop. Yet Saint Emilion receives over 1 million visitors per year. Car parks are full by mid-morning, coaches and minivans block the narrow approaches to the town, restaurant terrace spots are snapped up, and a tide of tourists flows through the town’s quaint medieval streets, where the principal activity on offer is wine shopping. Some are here on a genuine fine wine pilgrimage. Most come because they’ve heard it is beautiful, and

By 0Rest of Bordeaux, Wine

By Colin Gent MW. Originally published in WORLD OF FINE WINE, June 2025. We live in a polarized world, and wine is no exception. Are you Team New World or Team Old World? Team Italy or Team France? Team Burgundy or Team Bordeaux? Team Left Bank or Team Right Bank? This is not a new phenomenon, but it appears to be increasingly difficult to occupy the middle ground, to exist “in-between”. Which is exactly where my new home is : the Entre-deux-Mers, the land in-between. To nascent fine wine enthusiasts, Bordeaux is presented as a clear left-right dichotomy, Cabernet or Merlot, grace or opulence, choose your camp. The reality