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Bordeaux Futures 2007: a difficult campaign and mixed results

File "Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Wine Merchants
Maison Sichel is one of the few Bordeaux wine merchant firms to remain under the control of the original founding family, having weathered crises, wars and tough vintages.  Still located in the Chartrons on the quay,

Christian Moueix: A rare on-camera interview

File "Bordeaux Futures 2007: The Wine Merchants
The Libournais wine merchant firm of Jean Pierre Moueix is one of the most powerful on the Bordeaux marketplace.  Owned by Christian Moueix and his family, the firm controls, exclusively, the sales of a portfolio of ...

World's Best Sommelier: Andreas Larsson

The Wine Trade:  Sommeliers
Andreas Larsson knows wine. This engaging Swede overcame fierce competition to win the title World's Best Sommelier in 2007. When he's not flying around the world, you'll find Andreas at the restaurant PM&Vänner in Växjö.

Goulee 2007: Cos d'Estournel's team creates a new world wine

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 ...