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Chateau Beychevelle 2007 & Philippe Blanc

File " Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers"

Phililppe Blanc, the Director of Chateau Beychevelle, declared that the 2007 was a vintage for drinking.  We tasted both the 2007 and the 2004, and talked about the biggest changes in winemaking...

Lafite Rothschild, L'Evangile & Rieussec 2007 with Charles Chevallier

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers
Charles Chevallier is the Director of the Domaines Barons de Rothschild, which includes 1st Growth Lafite Rothschild in Pauillac as well as L'Evangile in Pomerol, Rieussec in Sauternes and 4th Growth Duhart Milon (Pauillac) ...

Ginestet's Bertrand Carles: Waging a Futures Campaign

File "Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Wine Merchants"
In order to understand Bordeaux wine, you must understand the business of Bordeaux wine. It is a € 3.4 billion business. 10,000 estates. 100 licensed brokers. 400 wine merchants commercialize 75% of the production, ...

Pomerol 2007 - Vieux Chateau Certan

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers
The week of the UGC en primeurs tastings is hectic. 5,000 people, scrambling from one tasting to the next, criss crossing the region, many of them lost. A tasting with Alexandre Thienpont in the calm of Vieux Chateau ... 

Ireland's Maturing Wine Market

File:  Bordeaux Futures: The Importers
Nigel Warner, the fine wine specialist for Dublin-based Febvre & Co., was eager to discuss the maturing Irish market. One of the results of the economic prosperity seen since the 1990s is an increasingly sophisticated ...

Anabelle Cruse-Bardinet on Chateau Corbin's 2007 primeurs

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers
While wine producers around Bordeaux have been offering samples of their 2007 vintage, their minds have already moved onto the next challenge: setting prices and release dates. Secret strategy? No strategy?...

Sandrine Garbay: the woman behind Yquem 2007

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers
Sandrine Garbay started in the cellars at Chateau d'Yquem right out of oenology school. She's now the cellar master or winemaker for the legendary Sauternes chateau. I first met...

Pingus: Spanish superstar makes guest appearance

File: Spanish Wines  - Wine Futures
Danish-born and Bordeaux-trained, Peter Sissek made his first vintage of Pingus in 1995. 4 hectares of ancient Tempranillo vines in the Ribera del Duero produce just 4,000-5,000 bottles a year. It's now the most expensive ...

Philippe Dhalluin on Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2007

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers
It was early on the Friday morning before the UGC tastings.  We pulled into Mouton Rothschild, the mist still hovered over the vineyards, and the hordes had not yet arrived. Philippe Dhalluin, Director-General of all of ....

Chateau D'Yquem 2007: extraordinary, racy, complex

File: Sweet wines - Bordeaux Futures 2007
The Editor's Choice
Someone recently asked me what had been my favorite tasting so far during the 2007 futures campaign.  Although I found very good wines in every appellation (Lafite, Petrus and Leoville Barton spring instantly to mind), ...