Bordeaux

NovaCadamatre March 2nd, 2012 . . . . . .

My MW Scholarship Trip to France!!! Part 1

  WAAAAYYYY Back in November I went on one of the most exciting trips of my life to France based on the generosity of AXA Millesimes.  I promised then that I would blog about it and now after several months I am going to fulfill that promise!  The next few weeks will be short excerpts recalling this ...

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NovaCadamatre June 10th, 2010 . . . .

What is “En Primeur”?

With all the hype and discussion around the 2009 vintage in Bordeaux this year I thought I would post a bit of information about the En Primeur process for those wine lovers that want some detail and history as to how the sale of “En Primeur” wines work. The majority of the information in this post was gleaned from a Trip to Bordeaux during En Primeur for the vintage 2008.

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