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A number of people have asked why I did not go to Bordeaux this year to taste the 2013 vintage en primeur. There are two good reasons why I ought to have gone – as a number of my friends did. First, there’s the journalistic/intellectual angle. Surely I should have wanted to taste the wines for myself, especially […]
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bordeaux / Bordeaux 2013 / bordeaux futures / en primeur / en primeur 2013 April 11, 2014
READ MOREQ. What do the chateau owners of Bordeaux have in common with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey? A. Like him, they – or at least a fair number of them – fear and hate… Twitter. Until quite recently, the Bordelais made use of fairly straightforward lines of communication when they wanted to tell the […]