Bordeaux 2010: quality very good but high alcohol and over-extraction a danger
Bordeaux 2010: quality very good but high alcohol and over-extraction a danger
Oct 5, 2010 6
Bordeaux 2010 continues to look of excellent quality, although there are increasing concerns over alcohol levels.
As the Merlot harvest continues in Bordeaux, and with the first Cabernet Sauvignon grapes due to be picked later this week, vignerons are in broad agreement the alcohol is ‘undeniably high’.
‘The skins of the grapes are so thick that in some places they still need time to soften,’ Jean-Francois Julien at La Fleur Morange in Saint Emilion told Decanter.com, ‘but the concern is that alcohol levels will get too high before they do so.
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