2011 Mouton Rothschild Announces New Guy de Rougemont Designed Label
For the 2011 Mouton Rothschild, the Baroness Philippine Rothschild chose the renown artist, Guy de Rougemont.
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2013 Chateau Brown Lowest Yields Ever, Jean Christophe Mau Interview
“With 2013 Bordeaux, only liars would say that they did not need to chaptalize this year!!”
International Merlot Day What are you Drinking to Celebrate November 7
“A 100% Merlot is for me a simple wine, but in a in a positive way. A blended wine is multidimensional, instead of a monovarietal wine which is mono dimensional as it is the case even for Burgundian Pinot Noir.”
2013 Bordeaux Vintage Report and Harvest Summary
2013 Bordeaux did not get off to a good start. 2013 Bordeaux could be one of the coldest, wet, diifficult start to a growing season in more than 40 years.
7 Blind Men Taste the Great 2003 Bordeaux Wine 2003 Rhone Wine
“I think I need a drink… Almost everybody does only they don’t know it.” Charles Bukowski was not thinking about wine when he wrote that. But I was thinking about wine when I read it.
Stephen Brook Throws the Book at Bordeaux Wines People and Chateaux
Troplong Mondot was over 15.5% in both 2009 and 2010. I accept these were vintages when sugars and alcohols, were bound to be higher.. But 15.5% is a stylistic choice, not a true reflection of climate and vintage. Today it lunges at the consumer with a hammer in its hand.
2013 Domaine de Chevalier White Wine Harvest Olivier Bernard Interview
This year was our latest start date ever to being the picking as we started September 23. But the latest finish for Domaine de Chevalier was last year with the 2012 vintage. We did not complete picking until October 5!
