Archives des great vintage - Blog World Grands Crus Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:31:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://blog.worldgrandscrus.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/logo-wgc-compact-150x122.png Archives des great vintage - Blog World Grands Crus 32 32 DRC and Pétrus top the auction lists https://blog.worldgrandscrus.com/en/drc-and-petrus-top-the-auction-lists/ Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:31:41 +0000 https://blog.worldgrandscrus.com/en/?p=310 It’s a battle for supremacy. Bordeaux and Burgundy fine wines, topping the auctions from the beginning of the fall season, prove that the world’s thirst for the best French fine wines has not changed. Sotheby’s New York auction has opened the fall season on September 20 with the sales that attained 2 million dollars and […]

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]]> It’s a battle for supremacy.
Bordeaux and Burgundy fine wines, topping the auctions from the beginning of the fall season, prove that the world’s thirst for the best French fine wines has not changed.
Sotheby’s New York auction has opened the fall season on September 20 with the sales that attained 2 million dollars and surpassed all the expectations as well as the estimations (between 1,4 and 1,9 million dollars). 93% of the auction were lot sales.
The legendary Bordeaux vintages, such as 1982 or even 1989 (which are ready to be enjoyed, by the way) were strongly desired after multiple biddings for great Burgundy wines.
A case of Château Lafite 1982 sold US$ 43750, 24 half-bottles of Château Haut Brion 1989 attained US$ 25000, 3 bottles of Romanée Conti 2011 for US$ 34375, and finally 8 bottles of DRC La Tache 1988 awarded of US$ 16250.
The prices for mature Burgundy wines continue to rise and are exceptionally high for a collection of recent wines of Remoissenet, Bouchard and Camille Giroud. These are just ready to be enjoyed at a lunch or a dinner this autumn.
The great Bordeaux vintages have fetched extremely high prices, especially Haut Brion, Mouton Rothschild and Lafleur.

Meanwhile, the first London Sotheby’s wine auction on September 17 and 18, yielded the sum of £1,65 million after an estimation between £1,3 and £1,6 million.
The most exceptional lot was a lot of two Pétrus 1945 magnums, sold £47000, considerably above its estimation: £18000 – 24000.
The second one was a lot of 5 La Tache magnums, sold at one hell of a price – £44650, or three times the estimate (£12000 – 15000).

In Hong Kong, the Acker Merall auction proves one more time the desire of Chinese and Hong Kong collectors to own the best wines in the world – French Grand Crus.

 (source picture: copyright Sotheby’s)

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]]> Burgundy sighs with relief https://blog.worldgrandscrus.com/en/burgundy-sighs-with-relief/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:47:33 +0000 https://blog.worldgrandscrus.com/en/?p=307 The wheel of Fortune goes round and after two difficult vintages, the 2014 harvest seems to be a relief for Burgundy producers – both for its quantity and quality. Most of the Burgundy wine producers have started grape harvest in the beginning of last week. Claude Chevalier, the president of Inter-professional Bureau of Burgundy Wine […]

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]]> The wheel of Fortune goes round and after two difficult vintages, the 2014 harvest seems to be a relief for Burgundy producers – both for its quantity and quality.

Most of the Burgundy wine producers have started grape harvest in the beginning of last week.

Claude Chevalier, the president of Inter-professional Bureau of Burgundy Wine (BIVB) has stated, after a hard wine harvest session, that the rates of return are close to norm, but significantly lower than the average for the previous vintages.

Chevalier announced that as for his own domaine, domaine Chevalier, located in Lodoix-Serrigny, the grapes are of fine concentration and present a good phenolic maturity. And the most important thing is that there’s plenty of grapes!

Multiple unripe grapes as well as grapes affected by acetic rot with vinegar smell are thrown away from the sorting tables. The rotting process is partly provoked by fruit flies, Drosophiles suzukii, present during the harvest. These flies go crazy about cherries, and the cherry season was long enough for the drosophiles flies to pass from cherries to grapes during the grape harvesting. Moreover, the temperature close to 20°C has favored their presence from August till the wine harvesting time.

Approximately 1,45 million hectolitres are expected from Burgundy region production, from Chablis to Mâcon, which is moderately below average, equal to 1,5 million hectolitres.

This numbers take into account the above-average production of Côte de nuits, but at the same time the lower production of Côte de Beaune and Mâconnais as a result of strong hailstorms in the end of June.

The vintage of this year was expected to be correct but not exceptional due to cold temperatures and frequent rainfalls this summer, but the last three weeks preceding the crop, being sunny and hot, have saved the harvest.

According to Sylvain Pitiot from Clos de Tart in Morey St Denis, 2014 is going to be a very good vintage!

Many domaines had to «clean » the vines and aerate the grapes in order to avoid Botrytis during heavy and multiple rains in August.

The harvests that have ended up around 18-20 September announce the alcohol percentage somewhere between 11,8 and 12,3%.

Apparently, this 2014 vintage is going to surprise us with its extraordinary quality of white wines, which will reflect a good balance between acidity and ripeness.

The 2014 wine harvest made Burgundy wine producers happy with its quantity as well as its quality. And now we have from 12 to 24 weeks until we see these wines bottled and have the opportunity to taste them.

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