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| Burgundy 2003 En Primeur |
2003 will be remembered in Burgundy for its ferocious summer heatwave. In August there were an astonishing 15 consecutive days of temperatures in excess of 40 degrees C causing sugar levels to soar and the Ban de Vendages being declared on the the 18th August, the earliest ever date. Incredibly the white wine harvest was effectively complete by the end of August.
The immense heat proved exceptionally challenging for growers and, as ever, the talented and conscientious overcame the problems with great results. All the producers we have bought from have made spectacular wines, but, with yields greatly reduced by the conditions, quantities of all the wines will be even more scarce than usual.
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| Finewineuk.com Launches |
Welcome to Finewineuk.com, K. Colombier Ltd.
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| Bordeaux 2003 |
The En Primeur campaign for Bordeaux 2003 is underway and the early signs from Bordeaux indicate that the scorching hot summer last year has produced a host of stunning wines. The Maison Colombier buying team have been in the heart of Bordeaux working their way through over 500 wines from this most eagerly awaited vintage.
The extreme heat of last summer presented winemakers with a stiff challenge. Sugar levels rose spectacularly in late summer with some producers jumping the gun and harvetsting early in order to preserve acidity. However growers who waited until their grapes were fully ripe have been rewarded with darkly coloured, rich concentrated wines displaying astonishing depth of fruit and much complexity.
2003 is a Cabernet Sauvignon year with the finest wines being produced in the northern Médoc and especially in Pauillac and St. Estèphe. Highlights of this week's tastings have included Lafite, Latour, Pichon Baron and Calon-Ségur. Quality was patchier in the southern Médoc although Château Margaux, true to form, has produced one of the wines of the vintage.
Volumes are massively down in St Emilion and Pomerol - Vieux Château Certan, which usually produces 4000 cases a year only produced 800 cases last year. Quality on the right bank is uneven although wines that stood out in tastings included Figeac, Ausone, Fetyit Clinet and Angelus.
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| Parker Predicts The Future For Wine |
Robert Parker, the world's most influential wine critic, has written an article forecasting seismic changes that will influence how we'll shop, what we'll buy and how much we'll pay for our wines in the future. The article is published in the October issue of the American magazine Food & Wine.
Amongst Parker's 12 predictions his most contentious is that the world's finest wines will "more expensive and more difficult to obtain". He predicts that demand will be stoked by the burgeoning interest in fine wine in developing economies in Asia, South America, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. "No matter how high prices appear today for wines from the most hallowed vineyards, they represent only a fraction of what these wines will fetch in a decade", he write adding that "the quantity of these great wines is finite, and the demand for them will become at least 10 times greater."
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