It has quickly evolved into a worldwide event for the fine vintages paired with delicious food.
Bad vintages of Bordeaux were really bad in those days: tonsil threatening or just plain watery.
The best recent vintages are: 1990, '98, '99, 2000, '01, '04, '05, '09 and '10.
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TERROIR, VARIETALS and vintages: three fancy words most commonly associated with grapes and wine.
They also possess the most colourful histories in town and have best vintages to sample.
We actually toned it down from previous vintages because of peer pressure from the girls.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the marketplace: Vintage 2003 seemed to split into two vintages.
High atop Spring Mountain, cult favourite Pride Mountain straddles the Napa-Sonoma border and bottles vintages under both appellations.
That said, the great investment vintages are expensive, and are more often going up rather than down.
The vast majority of Champagne is sold as non-vintage: a blend of wine from around three vintages.
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Not for him the deep sommelier lists of Bordeaux and Burgundy, much as he might admire those vintages.
I've seen half-bottles on lists especially white wines that are one or two or even three vintages behind their full-bottle counterparts.
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Others say it's the perception of a problem stemming from a few disreputable domestic wineries mislabeling vintages and grapes.
That would mean vintages to rival the legendary Grange line from the Penfolds vineyards, which today lie across the Barossa.
There are those who believe certain vintages should be decanted at breakfast, hours before they will be drunk at dinner.
Times have changed: nowadays they tend to be sophisticated, if still atmospheric, places offering Italian and international vintages, delicious cheeses and cold cuts.
The cellar is stocked with three vintages labels of Banfi Brunello that are no longer available on the open market.
Some vignerons say such is the paucity of these vintages that the three of them are the equivalent of one crop.
This is probably due to the ripeness of the grapes, which I suspect they will iron out in a few vintages.
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You can while away a pleasant hour comparing vintages and discussing the ins and outs of winemaking with Vern and his crew.
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Although Mr. Lombardo's wine list features mostly current vintages, I've found that many lists feature half-bottles that are a little too old.
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Many superlative vintages come from Colchagua Valley, where the high mountains trap the warm air in and keep cold Pacific air out.
In the tasting room, you can compare distinctly different blends and vintages.
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The latter was particularly easy to do, thanks to a string of great vintages (2010, 2009, 2007) and all that ripe fruit.
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Hairpin turns snake like isobars on a geologic survey through terraced vineyards that produce the local vintages, like the sweet dessert wine, Banyuls.
The overall quality was impressively high from the much-heralded 2008 vintage to what critics have called the lesser vintages of 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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Since entering the new century on a high with one of the most hyped Bordeaux vintages in two decades, nothing has gone its way.
Prized for their robustness, and the fact that the stuff usually gets better with age, Bordeaux vintages have seen stunning increases in prices over the past decade.
The 2009 and 2010 vintages saw relatively flat production volume amidst the economic crisis and in the wake of a massive bumper crop in 2008.
Just as wine vintages vary, so the weather can affect the number of harvests a coca plant yields and the alkaloid content of the leaves.
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