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    Bordeaux red futures 2017 : the good surprises that I did not expect

    From Bordeaux I have followed the vegetal cycle live. This winter I tasted separate lots of twenty different wine estates, from the simplest to the most famous ones. A first assessment is essential: irregular results (there is no 2017 vintage but several ones) and no green taste has been noted. The presence of the latter would have been a sign of absence of ripeness, hard ...

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    All of the tasting notes of the wine critic mentioned above in tastingbook, comes from press releases from wine importers and vineyards, or directly from the critic and can also be found on the critic’s own website, which can be easily accessed by clicking on the link above.

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    Me

    In 1984-1985, he took a course at the Faculty of Oenology "to learn about taste defects in wine" and obtained a degree in wine tasting with distinction. He also received practical winemaking experience at Domaine de Chevalier in Léognan during the 1985 vintage. While at this famous estate, he became familiar with the leading dry white Bordeaux at the time and learned from Claude Ricard, a great partisan of balance and tannic e...

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    Jean-Marc is an excellent source of information on Bordeaux as he is a wine writer and good taster who actually lives there and can keep an eye on how vineyards are treated and how wines develop month by month

    Jancis Robinson, Wine Critic, London, UK

    After several years, he has gained an amazing knowledge of soils. This has enabled him to have a well-informed and intelligent opinion of wines he tastes. He also has a real sensitivity, whi...

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