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Ginestet's Bertrand Carles

Bertrand Carles, Director of Purchasing, Classified Growths, for Ginestet,

Pomerol 2007 - Vieux Chateau Certan

File: Pomerol - Bordeaux Futures 2007
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 ... 

Exports: Ireland's Maturing Wine Market

File:  Ireland / The Wine Trade / Bordeaux Futures
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: Saint-Emilion - Bordeaux Futures 2007
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: Sauternes - Bordeaux Futures 2007
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: Pauillac - Bordeaux Futures 2007
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), ...

John Radford: What brings a British Journalist to the Challenge du Vin 2008?

File:  France's Largest Wine Competition Showcases Global Wines 

John Radford, the British author, journalist and radio show host, travels the word tasting, judging and writing about wine. He talked about the particular importance of events such as the Challenge du Vin and their role...

Challenge International du Vin: 5,129 wines, 35 countries, 828 judges

File "Behind the Scenes with Dewey Markham, Jr."

The Challenge International du Vin has grown from a local effort to promote the wines from Blaye and Bourg to an international competition.  Over 50% of the 5,129 wines came from outside of France. Professional tasters from ...