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Bordeaux 2010: Right Bank ‘fresher than 2009’

April 25, 2011

 

The overall quality of the St Emilion and Pomerol wines is high in the Bordeaux 2010 vintage, but whether they are superior to 2009 is a moot point.

 

Decanter’s critics spent yesterday on the Right Bank and consider the majority of the wines fresh, acidic and very well structured.

But at this early stage they are wary of pronouncing the vintage greater than last year’s.

‘We have to remind ourselves of what we loved in 2009’, Decanter’s Right Bank critic James Lawther MW said. ‘It was accessible with high tannins and excellent fruit, but perhaps 2010 has that magic quality – acidity.

‘I get the impression these wines are more classic and will age longer – but we still have a long way to go.’

Lawther stressed this: the wines still have to be barrel aged, which will be critical. If too much oak is used the wines will lose their fine balance.

Control is the watchword on the Right Bank. Those properties on clay subsoil, which retained water in the very dry summer, produced Merlot with very small powerfully-flavoured berries, and winemakers needed to take care with extraction.

Stephan von Neipperg at Chateau Canon la Gaffeliere told Decanter.com, ‘the Merlot is outstanding…it was just stressed enough, with small berries with outstanding concentration.’

Neipperg said that vintage 2010 was ‘easy’ in terms of the fact the dry, cool summer necessitated little work in the vineyard. It was ‘a good vintage for lazy people,’ as he put it.

‘The problem was in controlling extraction.’

This was achieved in the majority of properties. Steven Spurrier made the point that ‘good extraction is the pattern this year. When I have come across over-extracted wines they are noticeably out of sync with the rest.’

While Spurrier thinks that this will be a Cabernet vintage – ‘the best plots in the Medoc never became overripe’ – the Merlot-based wines of the Right Bank are more refreshing than the 2009s.

 

Source: http://www.decanter.com/bordeaux-2010/en-primeur-coverage/522013/bordeaux-2010-right-bank-fresher-than-2009

 

 

Some hotels and resorts offer free WIFI Internet connection to guests.  This includes beach resort of Clearwater which also offers free Internet connection in the room as well as in the outdoor areas even near the beach and by the lake.

 

Fine dining restaurants like Yats Restaurants and Wine Bar also offers good internet connection to their guests.  Highly recommended bar, pub and nightlife spot The London Pub located inside Mimosa also offers good internet connection to guests.

 

The London Pub is a classic English Gastropub frequented by local expats and business community.  It serves up good food, plenty of excellent vintage wine by the glass and a good selection of Cuban cigars.   The ambience is old English, dark wood, comfortable and relaxed.

 

Frequent travelers and visitors staying in Angeles City Pampanga Clark Philippines look for restaurants, coffee shops, bars, pubs, hotels and resorts in Clark that serve high quality Nespresso coffee to guests.  Here are some of the highly recommended places in Clark that offer good gourmet Nespresso coffee.

 

This web site contains articles and information that will be helpful to visitors, residents and tourists traveling out of town from Manila on a short getaway to Subic, Angeles City, Pampanga and Clark Philippines.  There are several web sites that contain information that might also be pertinent to what is happening in North Luzon.

 

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While in Clark, one might as well add to the itinerary a visit to the famous Clark Wine Center, the largest wine shop in Philippines which offers over 2000 selections of fine vintage wine from all wine regions, vintages spanning over 50 years covering all price ranges.

 

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