Interactive Graphic: French Wine Map Shows The Best Vintage, From 1978 To 2011 -- The Telegraph
Mayfair-based Berry Bros and Rudd, wine merchant to the Queen, has rated the wine from different regions of France out of ten for each year for decades. Browse by year to see the quality of each region's vintage, and click to see Berry Bros and Rudd's reviews.
Berry Bros and Rudd also suggest whether you should drink the wine now, or lay it down to mature in your cellar.
The quality of the wine each year depends on a number of factors, but the most important is the weather.
A sunny growing season, with occasional showers - particularly when the vines are in bud - is vital. Too much rain and the fruity "extract" in the wine will be diluted; too much sun and the grapes could be burnt.
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My Comment: An excellent graphic on French wines.
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