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Chateau Beychevelle 2007 & Philippe Blanc

File " Bordeaux-Futures 2007"

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), ...

Fronsac 2007: La Vieille Cure – Collin Ferenbach

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007:  The Winemakers
While the futures market focuses on the classified growths, many of the petits chateaux use this opportunity to showcase their wines. Tastings have sprung up like cepes in September. It was at one such tasting, the much...

Pierre Lurton unveils Cheval Blanc and Yquem 2007

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers
Pierre Lurton has a job that must be the envy of many in the wine trade. He is the director of both Chateau Cheval Blanc in St. Emilion and Chateau d'Yquem in Sauternes. Clearly the vintage report for the two wines ...

Gildas D'Ollone presents Chateau Bernadotte 2007

File: Pauillac - Bordeaux Futures 2007 
We continued the Vininews en primeurs odyssey with a relaxed tasting at Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande with Director Gildas D’Ollone. I tasted all of the wines managed by ...

Michel Rolland unites his wines from around the world...

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Winemakers
Michel Rolland is famous for being a globetrotting winemaker, consulting at wineries around the world. Over the years, he and his family have purchased vineyards in France, South Africa, and South America. Those wines...

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Remhoogte 2005: Rolland’s Cab-Merlot-Pinotage blend from South Africa

File: The Rolland Collection - Bordeaux Futures 2007
The Editor's Choice
While the Bordeaux futures tastings naturally focus on Bordeaux wines, several winemakers have seized this opportunity to present their wines from other countries to the thousands of wine professionals making ...

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Michel Rolland on 2007: a Transitional Vintage

File: Investigation - Bordeaux Futures 2007
Our first stop during the week of Bordeaux’s en primeurs tastings was in Pomerol to speak with Michel Rolland. He gave us an overall impression of the 2007 vintage and a report on his personal vineyards. Look for a vintage...   

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Olympia Romba: “Bordeaux 2007 exports destined for traditional markets”

File: Wine Merchant - Bordeaux Futures 2007
Olympia Romba was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the 2007 vintage for red wines, despite the mixed reviews in the press.  Based in Switzerland, Ms. Romba is a business development specialist for the wine trade. She gave ...

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Vintage 2007: White Wines from Graves

File: Graves - Bordeaux Futures 2007
The Editor's Choice
Consistant quality in the Graves appellation and one surprising blend. The overall quality was consistent, a harbinger of a good year for white wine in Bordeaux, notes Bordeaux correspondent Suzanne Mustacich.

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"2006 is a very good vintage, the main problem is the price."

File: Wine Merchant - Bordeaux Futures 2006
According to wine merchant and winemaker Jean-Luc Thunevin, 2006 can't be compared to 2005. 2006 produced some good wines, especially in Pomerol…

Margaux 2006: classic cabernet. Fruity and dense.

File: Margaux - Bordeaux Futures 2006
Paul Pontallier, Director of First Growth Château Margaux. Margaux Harvest 2006: ...when Cabernet Sauvignon is truly great the Merlot never comes up to the mark...

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Bordeaux "En primeurs" 2006: a classic vintage

File: Bordeaux Futures or "En Primeurs tastings"
Patrick Maroteau, President of the Union des Grands Crus, who organise the ‘en primeur’ (futures) tastings for 4000 wine trade professionals at the end of March in Bordeaux each year. Harvest 2006: ... the cumulative temperatures ...

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