{"id":1613,"date":"2013-04-16T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2013-04-16T21:10:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:10:44","slug":"bordeaux-whats-in-a-vintage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/bordeaux-whats-in-a-vintage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux: What\u2019s in a vintage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bordeaux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1677\" alt=\"Bordeaux\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bordeaux-300x185.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bordeaux-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winemonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bordeaux.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In some wine regions of the world, the quality of wine\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0vary tremendously from year to year.\u00a0 The reason is that the weather in some wine areas remains fairly consistent and predictable.\u00a0 In other wine lands such as Bordeaux, vintage means everything.\u00a0 The weather in Bordeaux varies enormously throughout the growing season and from year to year, and because weather largely determines the quality of the vintage and the resulting wine, vintage speaks volumes in the most hallowed of French appellations.\u00a0 The saying in Bordeaux is June makes the quantity, August the style, and September the quality.\u00a0 If the flowering and subsequent berry set go well in June, growers can look forward to a bumper crop.\u00a0 And by August, the <i>vignerons<\/i> know roughly what to expect in style.\u00a0 But it\u2019s September that ultimately determines how good the Bordeaux will be, particularly the reds, based largely on the amount and frequency of rain that falls during the month.\u00a0 If a tropical depression sweeps in from the Atlantic, all bets will be off.\u00a0 With this said, Bordeaux has enjoyed a bevy of fine vintages in recent years, and no two back to back vintages in memory rank higher than 2009 and 2010.\u00a0 Although the resulting wines are different in style, each of these vintages enjoyed ideal weather in September and October. \u00a0The years 2009 and 2010 produced from top to bottom some of Bordeaux\u2019s most drinkable and profound red wines.\u00a0 Consequently, I\u2019m putting as many 2009 and 2010 red Bordeaux in my cellar as I can afford because Bordeaux\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0get much better than in these two vintages.<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some wine regions of the world, the quality of wine\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0vary tremendously from year to year.\u00a0 The reason is that the weather in some wine areas remains fairly consistent and predictable.\u00a0 In other wine lands such as Bordeaux, vintage means everything.\u00a0 The weather in Bordeaux varies enormously throughout the growing season and from year to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[7,11,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bordeaux: What\u2019s in a vintage? 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