2011 Bordeaux, Classic Vintage for Villemaurine St. Emilion
“2011 will be a more classical styled Bordeaux vintage. The main advantage of this 2011 vintage is its precocity”.
Author Jeff Leve
2011 Fleur Cardinale Harvests Late, for 2011 St. Emilion Vintage
We used a new density-sorting machine, the Triabe system which sorts fruit based on the levels of sugar concentration. It runs the grapes through a bath using specific gravity or density, it separates ripe berries from the less ripe ones while washing the berries as they go through the bath and removes impurities, petioles, rotten skins, etc.
7 Blind Men Taste Bordeaux Rhone California Wine 1961-2001
When you want to have fun with your friends in a blind tasting, open one bottle or a magnum and serve the same wine in 3 or 4 glasses in the same flight. Not one person will get it. It’s a fun trick. Trust me, I know. It’s been played on me multiple times!
2011 Clos des Jacobins Harvest a sorting vintage in St. Emilion
2011 Bordeaux is a sorting vintage! It is also a winemaker vintage. If we want to keep fruit and elegance, the difficult part is not to extract too much.
2011 Chateau Palmer Thomas Duroux Harvest Interview
“Our goal is always to produce a delicate and refined wine at Chateau Palmer, instead of a big monster Bordeaux wine”.
2011 Bordeaux Harvest Dangerous La Fleur Morange Mathilde St Emilion
2011 Bordeaux really isn’t as early as some people are claiming. In May and June the grapes were maturing ahead of schedule. But July and August were cold and slowed the vines’ development.
2011 Clos Dubreuil St. Emilion Harvest Brings More Freshness
“My grand-father has always told me that an early vintage is a good vintage. An early vintage allows me to wait for the perfect ripeness as the weather is usually more stable in September”.