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How are France's 2008s now?
True value identified. You may remember that one of my August rituals is a fine-wine tasting organised by my neighbour in the Languedoc, Graham Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d’Albas in...
Jancis Robinson
Tuesday 10 September 2019
• 3 min read
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Reports from Rueda, Trentino and Montalcino follow. Rueda This predominantly white-wine region in Castilla y León has announced a record...
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We continue our coverage of the challenging 2008 harvest in France with a detailed look at right bank Bordeaux and...
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This very thorough report was sent to us by Susanne Staggl of the Austrian Wine Marketing Board. If you are...
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Klaus Peter Keller (pictured here with his wife Julia) provides some phenological data for 2008 in his vineyards around Flörsheim-Dalsheim...
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The 2008 California growing season had it all: frost, wind, drought, heat and smoke from massive wildfires. With more adversity...
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'Another great Classico vintage', reports the not-totally-objective press office of the Chianti Classico Consorzio (the regulatory and promotional body for...
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Considerable interest in Germany’s 2008 vintage has been expressed here on our forum, with up to date input from the...
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Graham Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d’Albas in the Minervois (pictured) sends this report of the 2008 vintage. Summary: A year...
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Alex Gambal, American wine producer in Burgundy, provides this fascinating account. See those revealing numbers in his section on September...
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Paul Symington of the Symington port group sends the following rather equivocal report on the 2008 harvest in the Douro...
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The wines described below were tasted over two days at the end of September at Quinta do Noval with Christian...
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Philippe Guigal pictured here at Ch d'Ampuis, son of Marcel and general manager and winemaker for Guigal, gives a realistic...
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Charles Sydney, optimistic wine broker pictured below enthusing over Touraine 2008 grapes, reports from the Loire. I thought a quick...
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Talking to people who live in and around Bordeaux recently, I have been assailed with tales of woe, of another...
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Hot on the heels of the final tally of the 2008 Australian grape harvest comes news that the 2008 crop...
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Now that the grapes are in and weighed, the total size of the Australian 2008 grape harvest is much bigger...
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