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BORDEAUX 2019 EN PRIMEUR REPORT

What a year, frankly! I have never tasted more en primeur samples, nor in a more unusual way. The final count is somewhere close to 1,000 wines, where in a typical year I will taste about 600 to

700. The vast majority at my house – my garage became like the demilitarised zone; there was a drop-off system that respected safe distancing, where I left the bottles for 24 hours to give the barrel samples a chance to settle, and I then gave

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