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Vintages. Growing seasons vary enormously from year to year. Here's your free guide to the most relevant vintages in the most significant regions. We think these brief descriptions are more useful than a numerical score.

This heatwave vintage at last produced relatively generous volumes. The fruit ...

Piemonte's run of good to great vintages was finally broken with disastrous hail in parts of Barolo, rot, unripeness and unusually cool weather. The thin-skinned Barbera suffered most in this small vintage. 2001 Excellent quality (and quantity) from an early vintage slightly more in the voluptuous mould of 1999 and 1997 than particularly long-term.

2013. A disappointment to Burgundy’s Chardonnay growers who had hoped for higher volumes than 2012. Instead, a short crop thanks to the cold spring was diminished still further by the careful fruit selection required after an erratic summer. All in all, producers intent on quality have acquitted themselves well.

A guide to Bordeaux vintages. See also UGC Bordeaux 2016 in bottle... 3 Nov 2018. Jancis Robinson. Image.

Across the whole state, wine quality looks good for 2018 in California. The ...

Decanter: Vintage chart covers a limited number of regions (less than the previous two), and the rating is done using the stars (up to 5 stars). Decanter Vintage Charts. Rioja: Covers only Rioja wines, starting from 1925. Rioja Vintage Chart. Jancis Robinson: No numerical ratings here, but instead there are vintage descriptions for the ...

Find the best vintages for Bordeaux red wines in our regional vintage guides ...

2018. A usefully wet winter preceded a very hot summer. This heatwave vintage at last produced relatively generous volumes. The fruit ripened to such a reliable extent that distinctions between climat and even quality levels seemed a little blurred in some cases, so this is a vintage where village and even regional wines are worth exploring.

After plentiful rain and a perfect flowering an exceptional quantity of grapes ...

If vintage reports are too uninformative, then an alternative is the vintage chart, where numbers and symbols take the place of words.

Here's your free guide to the most relevant vintages in the most significant regions. We think these brief descriptions are more useful than a numerical ...

Vintages. Growing seasons vary enormously from year to year. Here's your free guide to the most relevant vintages in the most significant regions. We think these brief descriptions are more useful than a numerical score.

Some sunburn on Moscato and Nebbiolo. Violent hailstorms in August damaged some ...

11.06.2020 · Jancis Robinson MW, Bartholomew Broadbent and Steven Spurrier award marks out of 20 for each wine. Michael Broadbent prefers a five-star scoring system. All notes were taken in 2018/19 with the exception of Michael Broadbent’s. Chateau Musar - Red. One third each Cabernet Sauvignon, Cinsault and Carignan, aged for a year in French Nevers oak.

Exceptionally cool, damp July and August but the vintage was saved by an unusually dry, warm September and October that (just about) ripened the grapes though autumn concentration has resulted in relatively high-acid wines. Reds have fragrance, medium body and supple tannins but are not for long term cellaring. 2013

A challenging growing season for reds in which grapes struggled to reach full ...

2017. Jacques Frost wreaked havoc in much of the Loire, with up to 95% crop loss in Savennières – although, overall, yields are slightly higher than the equally devastated 2016. Yet the quality of the remaining grapes by harvest time was promising, with perhaps slightly lower acidity than usual in the whites and good ripeness in the reds.