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Bordeaux – reports are creeping in which strike fear into the heart of many merchants – and their customers. 2010 is another great vintage. Even worse, it’s a small vintage, so that allocations will be down. Can prices go yet higher, or will this bubble burst?<\/p>\n

Cool wet conditions during the flowering in June resulted in coulure and millerandage – lack of fruit set and small, pipless grapes, so limiting the potential harvest. The yields were further limited by the extremely dry weather in July and August. Although dry, there were never any extremes of temperature – a summer much more like 2005 than 2009, with cool nights. One report puts it “the extreme lack of water is reason behind the remarkably small berry size, which is linked to the even greater phenolic concentration that in 2009 along with astonishing preservation of acidity and aromatic richness” (Sovivins).<\/p>\n

There are the usual\u00a0 caveats – some alcohol levels have gone very high – Chantal Amart of Ch\u00e2teau Montaiguillon<\/a> reported in the week before the harvest that she had Merlots at 15% and Cabernets at 13.5%, and was hoping for rain to swell the grapes a little. As usual some will be unable to resist trying to extract everything that can be extracted, and as usual some monsters will be made.<\/p>\n

So there you have it – start saving up now – or, if you want to drink what you buy rather than sell it, concentrate on filling your cellar with 2009 Burgundy.<\/p>\n

Following the recent ‘clarification<\/a>‘ by HMRC about the tax status of wine (investment cellars to be valued at resale value not cost), one has to wonder whether the special status of wine as an investment as opposed to a drink is not being whittled away – although in reality nothing has been changed by this announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Latest reports suggest that 2010 could be as good or better than 2009, and with a smaller harvest and rich Châteaux which have no need to sell, the chances are that the market will again be sorely tested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,42],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-france","tag-bordeaux2010"],"contentshake_article_id":"","yoast_head":"\n2010 Vintage Reports - Bordeaux<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Latest reports suggest that 2010 could be as good or better than 2009, and with a smaller harvest and rich Châteaux which have no need to sell, the chances are that the market will again be sorely tested.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/10\/2010-vintage-reports-bordeaux\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2010 Vintage Reports - 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