{"id":91,"date":"2011-04-30T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=91"},"modified":"2011-09-08T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T15:35:28","slug":"the-daily-telegraph-exposes-how-bordeaux-prices-are-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/04\/the-daily-telegraph-exposes-how-bordeaux-prices-are-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Telegraph exposes how Bordeaux prices are fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Moore was keen to see the Bordeaux en primeur circus from a merchant&#8217;s point of view,\u00a0and travelled with\u00a0me\u00a0during this year&#8217;s\u00a0week of tastings. She was\u00a0especially keen to\u00a0try to understand how the wines are priced.\u00a0Her <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/l9pfXR \">article<\/a> in today&#8217;s Telegraph\u00a0gives some of the many answers. When we tasted Denis Durantou&#8217;s little line-up (which includes some of the regions great bargains, such a la Petite Eglise, La Chenade and Montlandrie\u00a0as well\u00a0as the flagship Pomerol Ch\u00e2teau l&#8217;Eglise Clinet), a mischievous Denis<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/default\/images\/Bordeaux%202010\/Denis%20Durantou.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>was keen to help and even demonstrate with the help of my negociant friend Renaud Lecoq. As Victoria put it &#8220;Under the midday sun, on a lane in Pomerol, two men are locked in a frenetic waltz that might also be a fight. \u201cThis is the tango of the en primeur,\u201d explains Denis Durantou, maker of the sublimely voluptuous Chateau L\u2019Eglise Clinet.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/l9pfXR \">(Victoria Moore in The Daily Telegraph 29th April 2011)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/default\/images\/Bordeaux%202010\/Tango%20of%20En%20Primeur.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA winemaker with his negociant [the man who sells it]\u201d returns dark-haired Renaud Lecocq. \u201cOn danse ensemble. He pushes, I pull, he pulls&#8230;\u201d \u2014 the pair almost wrestle each other to the ground \u2014 \u201cbut I keep the balance. Now you\u2019ve understood how en primeur works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well this is certainly one answer! &#8211; see the rest of\u00a0Victoria&#8217;s article for some more inside info about how the system works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Under the midday sun, on a lane in Pomerol, two men are locked in a frenetic waltz that might also be a fight. &ldquo;This is the tango of the en primeur,&rdquo; explains Denis Durantou, maker of the sublimely voluptuous Chateau L&rsquo;Eglise Clinet.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/l9pfXR \">(Victoria Moore in The Daily Telegraph 29th April 2011)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,80,42,68,70],"tags":[789,3],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bordeaux","category-bordeaux-primeurs","category-france","category-reviews","category-the-daily-telegraph","tag-bordeaux","tag-bordeaux2010"],"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>The Daily Telegraph exposes how Bordeaux prices are fixed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Under the midday sun, on a lane in Pomerol, two men are locked in a frenetic waltz that might also be a fight. &ldquo;This is the tango of the en primeur,&rdquo; 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