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Viinin Kuvailu
The Story
Between the estates of Pétrus and La Fleur-Pétrus, amid vineyards, stands a stone house with closed shutters. The road that winds to the house between the vine rows has no signs or indications as to the name of the place. The construction looks more like a maintenance shed for the neighbouring estates than the main building of a winery. However, this is a house that makes one of the most desirable wines in Bordeaux: Château Lafleur.
Lafleur...
Vuosikerta 1972
The 1972 Bordeaux vintage stands as one of the most notoriously wet, cold, and disastrous harvests in post-WWII history, defined by a freezing, protracted spring that severely disrupted fruit set (coulure and millerandage), a sunless, chilly summer, and unrelenting rain throughout October. Contending with widespread rot, low natural sugar levels, and severe dilution across both the Left and Right Banks, châteaux were forced into drastic measur...
