Bordeaux Wine: Is It Worth The Money? -- The Telegraph
With the 2011 vintage decidedly average, and a grand name questioning the system, what is happening in Bordeaux?
This year, I learnt two new words while tasting in Bordeaux. The first was cramé (singed) which I picked up at Château Haut-Brion, where they were sighing over last June’s four-day heatwave – temperatures reached 40C (104F) and they lost 30 per cent of their cabernet sauvignon crop to sunburn. The second was échaudage, a more polite way of saying the same thing.
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My Comment: I agree with the last line in this article ....
.... Wine is like houses. Buy to drink, or for the sheer hell of it, not to invest, and you won’t be cramé.
Indeed.
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