{"id":11747,"date":"2014-04-02T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2017-11-15T07:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T07:50:28","slug":"bordeaux-2013-victoria-moore-interviews-charles-lea-in-the-daily-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/04\/bordeaux-2013-victoria-moore-interviews-charles-lea-in-the-daily-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux 2013: Victoria Moore interviews Charles Lea in The Daily Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Daily Telegraph - Victoria Moore - Wine Selection\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The-Daily-Telegraph-Victoria-Moore-Wine-Selection.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"60\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>Cellar Briefing: April News<\/h3>\n<h4>Victoria Moore 1st April 2013<\/h4>\n<p>Charles Lea co-founded independent wine merchant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Lea &amp; Sandeman<\/a> in 1988 and has been making buying trips to Bordeaux since working as a stagiaire at Chateau Latour three decades ago. Thanks to the (unusually) honest and opinionated advice he offers his customers, L&amp;S is the current holder of the IWC en primeur merchant of the year. Here he talks about the 2013 Bordeaux vintage currently being tasted on primeur for release later this spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI arrived in Bordeaux on Sunday to taste the 2013 wines which are being shown en primeur. I think we knew all the way through last year, right from the beginning, that it was going to be a difficult vintage. \u201cMaking wine in 2013 was like sailing through a storm,\u201d as one producer said. Just about everything that could go wrong did, it was cold at all the wrong moments, and there was rain at the wrong moments. So as a merchant, what I want to find, at least the best I\u2019m hoping to find, are wines that can be sold at relatively low prices to restart the Bordeaux market which has got stalled with a series of good but very expensive vintages. What we all fear is another vintage like 2007, which was not very good and also far too expensive at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went to a restaurant last night for dinner here and looking at the wine list made the point perfectly. All the wines were either much too expensive or they were from 2007 \u2013 which still look not very good value.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrices aren\u2019t usually released until after the week of the primeur tastings. In recent years the campaigns have become increasingly erratic as we have waited until nearly the summer holidays for some of the last. This year though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pontet-canet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pontet Canet<\/a> released its price last week, before the campaign had even started, or anyone had had the chance to taste it. Given that what we\u2019re looking for is pricing to get the market moving again, this release at the same price as the 2012 vintage, is not the start we\u2019d hoped for. As far as quality is concerned, the wines I\u2019ve tasted so far have been let\u2019s say very patchy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #564d4a;\"><strong>Standby for our take on the 2013 Bordeaux En Primeur campaign!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI arrived in Bordeaux on Sunday to taste the 2013 wines which are being shown en primeur. I think we knew all the way through last year, right from the beginning, that it was going to be a difficult vintage. \u201cMaking wine in 2013 was like sailing through a storm,\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,80,71,582],"tags":[579],"class_list":["post-11747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bordeaux-red-wine","category-bordeaux-primeurs","category-victoria-moore","category-winemakers-dinner","tag-2013-bordeaux"],"contentshake_article_id":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bordeaux 2013: Victoria Moore interviews Charles Lea in The Daily Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cI arrived in Bordeaux on Sunday to taste the 2013 wines which are being shown en primeur. 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