Bordeaux Wine Drama. Rain Arrives Finally
Every year Bordeaux vintners nervously look towards the sky to see when the rains will come and what impact they’ll have on the harvesting. Without much rain this summer, vineyard owners were getting nervous. Rain …
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Shiv Singh
12 September 2010 · 3 min read
| Every year Bordeaux vintners nervously look towards the sky to see when the rains will come and what impact they’ll have on the harvesting. Without much rain this summer, vineyard owners were getting nervous. Rain finally came a few days ago with 25mm falling across much of the Medoc, and between 15mm and 35mm fallling in Saint Emilion and Pomerol. |
Here Philippe Dhalluin of Chateau Mouton Rothschild discusses the weather conditions. Courtesy Decanter magazine.