{"id":1411,"date":"2009-10-27T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bkwine.gobigtree.com\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2009-10-27T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T08:13:00","slug":"bordeaux-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/news\/bordeaux-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/span><\/span>The Union des Grands Crus (UGC) in Bordeaux recently presented the 2007 vintage in Paris. the UGC includes not only the 1855 Grands Crus Class\u00e9s but also some excellent producers inn Pomerol, Graves, M\u00e9doc and Saint Emilion. It can be quite a chore to taste a large number of young Bordeaux wines but this time it was quite pleasant. 2007 is a year with soft tanning and many of the wines are virtually ready to drink already today. The summer was cool with quite a lot of rain but the vintage was \u2018saved\u2019 by a nice autumn and harvest season. However, you had to be careful with the extraction, or risk getting too much green and bitter notes in the wine. Most producers choose to make a wine playing on the fruit. The best have done careful extractions and have avoided too much new oak. The result is a very good wine, approachable and with a very nice fruit dominated by blackcurrant notes and a touch of mint.<\/p>\n

2007 is a vintage that restaurateurs will love. Ready to drink young, not needing long cellaring. This, no doubt, will benefit the consumer too in offering less expensive wines accessible now. \u201cIt\u2019s good to have a vintage like 2007 every once in a while\u201d, says Caroline Poniatowski at Ch\u00e2teau Lafon-Rochet in Saint Est\u00e8phe. Gonzague Lurton at Ch\u00e2teau Durfort-Vivens in Margaux thinks that they can age for 10 to 12 years: \u201c2007 is not a vintage to lay down for very long\u201d, he says. A \u201cvin de plaisir\u201d is how Eric d\u2019Aramon at Ch\u00e2teau de Figeac describes it, to drink before the 2005s and 2006s: ”What\u2019s important for the 2007s is to keep the fruit and the freshness\u201d, he says. Tristan Kressmann at Chateau Latour Martillac in Pessac-L\u00e9ognan sees it as an \u2018in-between\u2019 year: Cabernet sauvignon was successful thanks to good weather in October but the merlots suffered from the humidity earlier in the season. That\u2019s why we use two thirds cabernet in the blend which is more than what we normally have. But it gives us both elegance and fruit\u201d. Ch\u00e2teau Lagrange in Saint Julien is another winery that used more cabernet than normally and in their case it has given the wines a good structure and, thanks to soft extractions, a fresh fruit. The wine is nice, soft and agreeable.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Antonio Flores, chef de culture at Ch\u00e2teau Malescasse in Haut-Medoc, is quite satisfied with the result. \u201cBut\u201d, he says, \u201cit was difficult to get sufficient ripening of the grapes. We had to do a lot of work in the vineyard and a strict sorting of the grapes when they arrived at the chai before the fermentation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Many chateaux choose to use less new oak than habitually in 2007. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Le Clerc at Ch\u00e2teau La Tour de By in northern M\u00e9doc used only 10%. \u201cYou had to be careful not to mask the fruit\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

Some other of my favourites: Cos Laboury, Saint Est\u00e8phe, with hints of aniseed, blackcurrants and a round and soft body; Grand Puy Ducasse in Pauillac, complex with a bit of astringency, needing a few more years of bottle age; Haut-Batailly and Lynch Moussas, both in Pauillac and both with lots of finesse and a fabulous fruit.<\/p>\n

If 2007 was a non-exceptional year for the reds it was, on the contrary, a fantastic year for the whites from Pessac-L\u00e9ognans (the region which was on tasting). The white Ch\u00e2teau Latour-Martillac had exceptional balance between the aromatic side of the sauvignon blanc and s\u00e9millon\u2019s \u201cfat\u201d. \u201cWe don\u2019t use more than 1\/3 now oak. There should be just a hint of oak\u201d, says Tristan Kressmann. Some other very good whites I tasted came from La Louvi\u00e8re, Larrivet-Haut-Brion, Ch La France, Carbonnieux and Pape-Cl\u00e9ment (the latter with quite a lot of new oak though!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Union des Grands Crus (UGC) in Bordeaux recently presented the 2007 vintage in Paris. the UGC includes not only the 1855 Grands Crus Class\u00e9s but also some excellent producers inn Pomerol, Graves, M\u00e9doc and Saint Emilion. It can be quite a chore to taste a large number of young Bordeaux wines but this time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}