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Viinin Kuvailu
The Story
Taking the reins of the château in 2000, Nicolas Thienpont, with expert advice from Stéphane Derenoncourt, launched a programme of renovation work to improve the natural drainage of the soil, replanting certain plots of the vineyard and introducing new biodynamic vine-tending techniques to complement the estate’s traditional working methods.
In this same spirit of constantly striving for perfection, the winemaking team from Château Angelus ...
Vuosikerta 1968
The 1968 wine vintage in Bordeaux was an absolute weather disaster and is widely considered the worst Bordeaux vintage of the post-WWII era. A cold, gloomy spring was followed by a relentlessly wet and freezing summer, culminating in a catastrophic August that saw widespread fruit rot, severe mildew, and a total failure of the grapes to achieve sugar or phenolic maturity. The harvest was so waterlogged that the resulting red wines were thin, p...
