Bordeaux News
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Wine from the 2002 vintage of Chateau Le Pin, a Pomerol estate whose prices rival those of close neighbour Chateau Petrus, sold for a record 12,000 pounds ($18,900) a case on London’s Liv-ex wine market today.
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Four cases of Chateau Cos d’Estournel 2005, a second-growth Saint-Estephe wine estate, sold for 1,325 pounds ($2,070) each on the Liv-ex market in the past week, a six-month low and 7 percent below the 2013 high.
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Trade group Wines of Turkey is showing off the country’s top reds and whites at a packed tasting at VinExpo fair in Bordeaux this week while heavy-handed regulations are making it harder than ever for them to sell at home.
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Three double-magnums of Chateau Haut-Brion 1989 Bordeaux, its most expensive wine of the past quarter-century, are priced to fetch as much as $18,000 at Acker Merrall & Condit’s sale in Bridgehampton, New York this month.
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A case of Romanee-Conti 1988 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Burgundy fetched 81,900 pounds ($128,000) at a Christie’s International Plc wine sale in London this month as Chateau Petrus and Chateau Latour led the bidding for Bordeaux.
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Chateau d’Yquem had 380 half-bottles of its Sauternes dessert wine valued at 125,400 euros ($167,000) stolen in a raid on its cellars near Bordeaux this week, Decanter.com said.
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Talk about liquid assets.
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Eiffage SA lost money on building the state-of-the-art soccer stadium in Lille for the 2016 European championships. It’s banking on a return coming from outside of France.
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While perusing the 1,800-selection wine list at New York’s Aureole restaurant, my wife nudged me at about number 785 and said, “Pssst. I’m still here.”
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Domaine Clarence Dillon, owner of Bordeaux first-growth wine estate Chateau Haut-Brion, said it has acquired Chateau L’Arrosee, a Grand Cru Classe producer in Saint-Emilion neighboring its Chateau Quintus vineyards.
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