2011 Brane Cantenac Harvest Interview with Henri Lurton
“We were stressed because of a variable Bordeaux climate until almost the end of August. And now we are happy because of the nice back season we had until the end of the 2011 Bordeaux harvest!”
Author Jeff Leve
Chateau Grand Village, Lafleur’s Second Vineyard
Grand Village, owned by Jacques and Sylvia Guinaudau, practices many of the same techniques used at their famous Pomerol estate, Chateau Lafleur. In fact, The Guinaudau’s refer to Grand Village as “Lafleur’s second vineyard”.
St. Laurent, Austria’s Rare, Red, Wine Grape Treasure
Due to its high demands in the vineyard and its fussiness in the cellar, the production of truly great St. Laurent wine is never an accident. It is a question of ambition and patience.
2011 Reignac Harvest Demands Intense Sorting
Michel Rolland has taught us to be patient and wait for the optimum maturity in the grapes we harvest. In this vintage, we needed patience as well as extra sorting as 90% of the work has been made in the field to get perfect berries.
1985 Guigal La Turque, When a Wine Leaves You Speechless
The erotic sensations that coat your palate, take your breath away. Picture, dense, molten cherries, truffle, spice and earth. Add the viscosity of motor oil combined with intense purity and the perfect amount of lift to keep it fresh
2011 Malartic Lagraviere Harvest is Atypical, says Jean Jacques Bonnie
We feared a difficult harvest period because of the very dry 4 months between the middle of March until the middle of July. Then we received 50 to 60 mm of water between middle of July and middle of August
2011 La Cabanne Harvest Pomerol is Complicated
If we had the same weather 30 or 40 years ago that we had in 2011, the results would have been different (bad) because now, we work differently in our Bordeaux vineyards.
