The Japanese, who are now wine-crazy, became the world's biggest market for red Bordeaux in 1998, with the Australians left trailing in what they regard as their own Asian backyard.

ECONOMIST: Australian wine

Aaron, whose firm offers futures on 90 red Bordeaux (pay now for delivery of 1999 vintages in spring 2002), says that some labels are stuck at the same prices they were at a year ago.

FORBES: Drink It Up

Judicious purchases of red Bordeaux, red and white Burgundy, a small parcel of port and some Champagne not from one of the major grand marques but an individual grower should provide happy drinking for the next decade or so.

WSJ: Will Lyons on Wine: How to Start a Wine Cellar

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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In European circles, two regions seem to raise the red flag: Bordeaux and California.

WSJ: Will Lyons on Wine: Thinking Inside the Bottle

All 24 sites could be accounted for if the first Cabernet Sauvignon vine was a hybrid between Cabernet Franc (another red variety from Bordeaux) and Sauvignon Blanc (a white grape grown widely in western France).

ECONOMIST: Secrets of the Cabernet

Wine : Bordeaux-style red, "Double T, " Trefethen Vineyards, Napa, Calif.

FORBES: Love's Dove

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.

BBC: Creative wine tasting in Buenos Aires

The latest is Sol Rouge, which Kane opened at the end of April with a focus on producing wines from the grape varietals of southern France's Rhone and Bordeaux regions, sourcing the fruit from his 70-acre vineyard in the Red Hills north of Napa.

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