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Is there a satisfactory vintage chart?
Mike Chivers, Reigate, Surrey:
Where can I find a vintage chart (Bordeaux & Burgundy) that you consider ‘good enough’; a simple cross check of WS, BBR & WS show significant variations (WS show 2 differing vintage charts!).
me:
Both WSs are The Wine Society? Wine Spectator? I’d trust them more than many retailers but I really don’t find vintage charts that useful, I’m afraid. We had one in the 2 nd edn of The Oxford Companion to Wine but won’t have one in the 3 rd . They are just such crude tools… Applying scores to individual wines is dodgy...
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