In 2009, more than 22 million cases of Bordeaux wine were sold at French supermarkets.
The lawsuit alleged Bordeaux wine had been labelled to suggest it was bottled between 1864 and 1950.
According to a recent industry report, supermarket sales comprised 44% of Bordeaux wine sales in France.
Like sports cars and expensive Bordeaux wine, go-go mutual funds are barely defensible on any level, yet investors chase after them.
My personal favorites are Bordeaux wine glasses or small brandy snifters.
Under the advisement of Michel Rolland, a Bordeaux-based wine consultant, Grover produces a variety of whites and reds, including sauvignon blanc, viognier, cabernet and shiraz, that are as palatable with a plate of cumin-crusted lamb chops as they are on their own.
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But Gary Boom, founder of London wine merchant Bordeaux Index, says that in order to give the general public a reason to buy this vintage, the prices will have to fall.
The wine critic James Suckling, a veteran Bordeaux expert who moderated the tasting in Bridgehampton, gave each wine 100 points and compared the pair to the heralded 2009 and 2010, the younger wine being the sexpot in that pair.
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As if that wasn't enough, prices also softened on uncertainty over what the wine critic and Bordeaux champion Robert M.
Mr. Parker's other now-legendary point of distinction was his ringing endorsement of the 1982 Bordeaux vintage when every other wine critic dismissed both the wines and the vintage.
It's precisely that belief that's animated much of the argument among the wine-makers in Bordeaux.
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The estate produces only one wine, a stately Bordeaux blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot.
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Planet Earth had barely finished lapping the sun in the new millennium when wine experts proclaimed the Bordeaux of 2000 to be one of the greatest vintages of the century.
Several dozen of them make superb wine, but even in exciting, small-crop vintages like 2003 Bordeaux as a whole may simply be producing too much wine, at too high a price, for a world with so many other wine options.
Mr Ailyan says Bordeaux UK Limited is one of eight wine investment company collapses his company has dealt with recently.
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It was the fourth major purchase by a Chinese company of a wine property in the famed Bordeaux grape region since 2008.
But starting a wine collection doesn't have to require cloistered cellars, a large capital outlay or wooden cases stocked with Bordeaux's finest and most expensive wine.
Setting aside the lush and creamy palate of a 1982 Latour, or the spectacular experience of a 1989 Petrus, Bordeaux is also the king of the wine market for economic reasons.
Wine has been made in Bordeaux since the time of the Romans, although it was an exclusively domestic product for the first 1, 000-plus years, until Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine and exports of Bordeaux to England began.
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These four-day barrel tastings, begun as a very insider-y trade presentation for wine merchants interested in selling Bordeaux futures, had become a 4, 500-person slurping festival, a rite of spring for Thai hoteliers, Texas liquor store owners and the nephew of someone's Swedish distributor.
Those bottles send a better message to me and the rest of the wine-drinking world about what Bordeaux is capable of.
Wine critic William Munnelly is starting to see Bordeaux prices in the secondary market sink by as much as 10%.
While producers 25 miles northwest in Bordeaux can sell their reds and whites relatively easily, sweet wine is out of fashion.
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By which I mean wine that smells and tastes like it comes from Bordeaux, with aromas of cedar, cassis, pencil shavings and mint, while retaining that freshness when it is swallowed.
When Incisa's Cabernet blend, Sassicaia (meaning "place of many stones"), finally reached the market with the 1968 vintage, it incited wine revolutionaries across Italy, thanks partly to its Bordeaux-rivaling depth and lusciousness--from a vineyard in Nowheresville!
Even so, Ntezo has to introduce wine to drinkers who may know little or nothing about Bordeaux, Riesling or Pinot Noir.
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The star varietal is malbec, a red wine made from the malbec grape that is native to Bordeaux but actually thrives better in the high-altitude terrain of Mendoza than anywhere else in the world.
When I looked at le carte des vins at La Tupina, a roadside restaurant, I surfed dozens of wines, both red bordeaux and white bordeaux that I had never heard of despite my extensive cellar and wine library.
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