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, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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...
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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 ....
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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…
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"Trades wine focus: merchant"
Cybelle Wines is a company founded in 2006 with the purpose of importing wines from small artisan producers. Specializing, but not limited to the region of Bordeaux, France, Cybelle Wines looks for exceptional wines ...
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