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I first met François in 1981 when I was assigned his account, a wine bar called La Cave. He had ordered a container of 1978 classified growth Bordeaux wine from the company I worked for and he would ask me about the progress of those wines. 1978, at the time was getting good hype and [...]
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James Gunter is a Senior Vice President, Fine Wines for Glazer’s, based out of Addison, Texas. Outside of the corporate world, though, he is one of a handful of people who know the inner workings of the Bordeaux wine industry. In a previous life he could have been a courtier or at the very least, [...]
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Bill Blatch’s Preliminary Bordeaux 2008-vintage report Source: Bordeaux 08 Report Updated and posted: Sunday February 1st VINTEX et les Vignobles Grègoire, Bordeaux bill@vintex.fr Tel 0556112080 2008: yet another turnaround vintage Nobody’s going to believe it, and I’m not making this up, but 2008 in Bordeaux is rather a good vintage. Yet, meteorologically, 2008 looks to [...]
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Prats of Cos calls for September en primeur Source: Decanter By Oliver Styles February 5, 2009 Jean-Guillaume Prats, the managing director of Bordeaux Second Growth Chateau Cos d’Estournel, has called for radical changes to the en primeur system. Prats said the en primeur tastings, held for journalists and wine trade professionals, should occur at their [...]
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Source: The Luxist By Deidre Woollard It’s not looking good for the 2008 Bordeaux. Decanter reports that France’s two main newspapers, Le Monde and Le Figaro have panned the 2008 vintage. They say that the recent poor weather has affected the harvest. Le Figaro said that the 2008 wine ‘promised neither quality nor quantity’ while [...]
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January 9, 2009 Source: Decanter News Oliver Styles The head of the Bordeaux and Bordeaux Superieur winemakers’ union has called the 2008 vintage ‘excellent’, despite early indications that the vintage is poor. Bernard Fargues said that although 2008 produced the smallest crop in the region since the disastrous 1991 vintage, oenologists were ‘unanimous’ in calling [...]
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