The estate continues its march towards biodynamic farming. At this point, 62 acres are farmed using biodynamic techniques. The eventual goal of Chateau Latour is to become completely biodynamic within a few years.
We employed optical sorting for the first time in 2011. I am undecided about employing the technology in future vintages yet. The new destemming technology had a much more important impact!
Buying Bordeaux wine comes to down price and quality. Every owner, director know prices need to come down. How far they will drop is the question. Most owners, directors feel their wines are priced fair. it is their neighbors that need to discount. For the wines to sell through to consumers as a future, the wines need to take a big step back in price. I’d like to see reductions from 2010 drop by 40% to 50% for many properties.
Today there are no more bad vintages. Bordeaux will never experience another dreadful vintage like 1969, 1972 or 1991. Technology, vineyard management techniques and the money needed to make the best wines possible are available to Bordeaux wine makers today.
Pichon Baron produces rich, full bodied, spicy, concentrated, character filled, elegant Bordeaux wine. In the top vintages the wines age and improve for decades. While prices have risen, so has the quality.
Apart from their attractive price, stainless steel vats have two indisputable advantages for the vinification of red wine. On the one hand they are easy to maintain, and on the other they permit, in principle, simple and strict fermentaÂtion temperature control.
Sharing bottles with new and old friends alike is what makes the hobby rewarding. Hedonism is something to be embraced. If they do not have shirts with that printed on the front in Dusseldorf, assuredly, they would sell well to the infamous Cellar Devils living there.