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Wines of Bordeaux
Bordeaux.com
Source:
Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux
"The official site of Bordeaux wines."
Médoc-wines.com
Source:
Conseil des vins du médoc
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Year after year, Lamothe de Haux, a minor château, produces enticing Bordeaux blanc blends.
Château Pape Clement - this vineyard, the oldest named in Bordeaux, harvested its 700th crop this year.
But how do you celebrate a 700-year anniversary?
"If you prefer a manual transmission, a vacuum
tube amplifier or a phone that is just a phone and not a media center, then
you understand how it feels to be a fan of good dry white Bordeaux. It's not
at all easy to find what you want."
A Bordeaux classification, once drawn up in the
19th century but since fallen from use, has been revived by a group of
winemakers in the Medoc.
"Too many
Bordeaux wines don't deserve the name - and winemakers must be quicker to
understand the styles demanded by the international market."
The Bordeaux first-growth Chateau Mouton-Rothschild has revealed the design of its new label for the
2001 vintage.
What makes this “other”
bordeaux so good? The soil, the merlot grape—and the camaraderie.
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