Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Bordeaux is Dead. Long Live Bordeaux.
Eric Asimov in today's NY Times takes down the 2009 Bordeaux vintage in today's column. Among his more salient points, he says it is "a fact that fine Bordeaux has become increasingly irrelevant to many American wine lovers who are not collectors or wine investors."
Asimov points out that in 2009, of the 280.9 million cases of still wine – domestic and foreign — distributed in the United States, only 1.29 million cases came from Bordeaux, a mere 0.46 percent.
Less than 1%! And, of that small amount, a full 45 percent of the wine was generic Bordeaux and Bordeaux Superieur, according to figures from the Bordeaux Council, a trade group.
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/theres-more-to-the-world-of-fine-wine-than-bordeaux/#more-27661
