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2005 Bordeaux promises great things

The 2005 Bordeaux En Primeur promises to be very special. Here Berry Brothers offers an overview.
June 06, 2006
The Berry Brothers buying team has recently returned from Bordeaux and there is little doubt that 2005 is one of the greatest vintages of all time... more structured than 2000, more concentrated than 1996, purer fruit than the 1990 and more classic and terroir-driven than the 1982.

With perfect weather conditions during the growing season and harvest, 2005 is a vintage created by nature.

Berry Bros Rudd Wine Director, Alun Griffiths MW says ôIÆve never seen a vintage with such a crop of consistently excellent wines, with such incredible ripeness, fruit concentration, tannic structure, balance and sense of terroir. A hallmark of a great vintage is that it is homogenously good, and 2005 is exactly...
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