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1990 in the Sunshine – (May 2008)
Tasting note from Dr Jeremy Howard. Two friends and I decided to use the unseasonable May weather to try some Left Bank Bordeaux 1990s. For many Bordeaux lovers, this vintage vies with 1989 for supremacy between 1986 and the vintages of the late nineties. Top Bordeaux wines from the 1990s are certainly not cheap, but they are a little more accessible than the astronomic prices one meets when venturing into the best years of the 1980s (and beyond). Plus I was aware from reading the excellent CellarTracker notes (www.cellartracker.com) that 1990 is drinking really well at this time. With......
Brits buying French Vineyards
The number of British-owned French vineyards “must now be well into
four figures,” says Jancis Robinson MW. And given the lack of
involvement of Alistair Darling in the country’s taxation matters, she
says “it is hardly surprising then that a substantial proportion of the
hundreds of thousands of them who own French property has been tempted
by the apparently bucolic life of a vigneron”. ...