Burgundy: Finding value wine in an expensive region
The transformation of top Burgundy into an investment vehicle is all but complete. But there’s hope for savvy drinkers yet.
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The transformation of top Burgundy into an investment vehicle is all but complete. But there’s hope for savvy drinkers yet.
The biggest difficulty was deciding what to leave out
France has kicked off a plan to grub up nearly 9% of vineyards in Bordeaux, with winemakers able to file for aid from 20 November for a period of one month.
For a grape that has become the source of so much forgettable if quaffable red wine, the origins of Merlot’s name are rather poetic. As Jancis Robinson’s Wine Grapes tome tells us, one of the earliest-written records of the variety turns up in an 1824 manuscript about wines from the Médoc in Bordeaux. It states that Merlot was so-called because of a fondness of the blackbird (‘merle’ in French, and ‘merlau’ in Occitan) for its sweet and fleshy black grapes. They’re not the only ones who have a soft spot for this grape, which brings soft-edged, sweet-fruited qualities to red ...
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