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Cheval Blanc 2007: impromptu barrel tasting

File: Bordeaux Futures 2007
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Union des Grands Crus: Patrick Maroteaux on Bordeaux's Unique Product

File "Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Wine Producers"
The Union des Grands Crus (UGC) organizes 50 events a year, the biggest being the UGC Primeur barrel tastings. The tastings are held each spring and officially launch each new vintage.  Patrick Maroteaux, UGC president,...

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 Chateau Beychevelle ...

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 ...