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harvest 2009 update

By billn on August 26, 2009 #asides#vintage 2009

summer sun

A couple of selected quotes from this week:

David Clarke @ Morey:

Things are looking good. The weather has essentially been warm and very occasionally stormy since my last update. The storms have brought a few millimetres of unneeded rain, but thankfully nothing worse. The forecast is also dry and sunny for the next week so optimism is definitely rising. There is still no rot and we are around 10% potential alcohol already. The acidity is relatively low, but I think many people are now hoping for something at little better than the 1997 vintage I mentioned a few weeks ago. I still feel the skins are quite thick and tough so would like to wait until around the 19th if possible, but will be ready to advance that by as much as a week if the weather dictates.

Juliette Chenu @ Savigny:

So far the vines are very nice, we have had rain ( small ) twice, but it did not affect the general quality. Tha sanitary state is beautiful…
We have had a lot of sun this august compaired to the last years. And if we trust the forecasts we will have another week of sun. We are planning to harvest around the 7/10 of September. From the BIVB technical bulletin, depending on the elements, the state of the vines can be compaired to 2006/2002 or 2005..We will know more in a weeks time..But we say that August makes the moût..So it is good news you can give…

And for those with a more technical interest:
maturity
Source: BIVB Infos, 25-Aug-2009

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Boisset to buy Antonin Rodet (?)

By billn on August 26, 2009 #asides#the market

From the Decanter newsfeed:

Burgundy-based wine company Boisset is in advanced negotiations with the owners of Antonin Rodet to take over its wine business.

This was the talk of town when I was in burgundy in June, I assumed the silence that followed indicated nothing was happening – it looks like maybe the holidays were to blame…

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wine report r.i.p.

By billn on August 26, 2009 #asides#the market

stevenson_wine_reportI see from the Decanter newsfeed (‘click’ Decanter News at the top right of this diary page) that the Wine Report of, or rather edited by, Tom Stevenson may be no more. If Dorling Kindersley, that stalwart of (popular) wine publishing is giving up, I find it hard to see how WR may be resurrected. From the comments of TomS:

‘Everybody in the trade who has ever seen Wine Report wants the next edition as soon as it’s published’

– maybe they should try and get the trade to cough up the bulk of the publishing costs if they need a sustainable business model. It was certainly a curious concept in that all wine-producing regions got the same coverage, whether Belgium or Bordeaux – perhaps it was best suited to the trade. Shame, and they were such nice people 😉

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vougeraie newsletter

By billn on August 24, 2009 #asides#other sites

Vougeraie NewsletterI’ve been getting a copy of this regular newsletter from Domaine de la Vougeraie for ages, but recently asked if I could have a pdf version for ‘archiving’. Having received a copy, I thought other people may also like to see it. The pdf format is not perfect, and that’s because this should be a 4 page, gate-fold article but as a pdf is only two pages – i.e. page 4+1, and page is 2+3, but I’m sure you’ll work it out 😉

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9.58…

By billn on August 17, 2009 #asides

wow
wow
Usain Bolt – wow. I just had the impression that he was working up for something special as his ‘starts’ were a far cry from the languid impression he gave whilst playing to the cameras and crowd. He also provides something fresh – he wants to set (mind-bending) records at major championships, rather than the Harvard Business School model employed for years by Bubka and Isinbayeva: ‘1cm more per event, just send me the cheque!’ Just imagine being Tyson Gay; within 0.02 of a previously unbelievable world record, the second fastest run of all time – oops, actually it’s now already the 3rd fastest, and you’re not close enough to the winner to read which brand of shoes he’s wearing! I haven’t been so in awe of an athletic performance versus the records since Coe ran 800m in 1:41.73 – almost 30 years later most major championships are still won in around 1:44…

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has the world gone mad(?)

By billn on August 13, 2009 #asides#other sites#the market

Am I the only person in the world that’s totally bemused by this… er… er… tawdry ‘news item’… ‘thing’…(?)
[Tell me if you can help with a more appropriate adjective…]

“All of us at Matchbet are absolutely delighted to be working with Liv-ex, whose indices are the authoritative source of information about the state of the fine wine market. We believe that Liv-ex’s users will benefit from an ability to both hedge, and speculate, on Liv-ex’s price indices. The market has just been launched, but already there are significant betting opportunities. I believe that the market will quickly develop into a major companion site to Liv-ex for all those seriously interested in the wine industry.”

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