Château Bauduc 2022 Rosé

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Simple no frills Rosé, nice fruit. Through AC Wines

Website blurb: ‘This pale, dry rosé was made from 40% Cabernet Franc, 40% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. We harvested the grapes earlier than for making red and pressed the light juice off the dark skins for a refreshing, crisp wine. The house rosé for Rick Stein for many years.’ 12% vol.

“Château Bauduc’s lovely Bordeaux Rosé goes against the region’s general trend by picking grapes (merlot and cabernet) early to keep the style fresh, dry and modest in alchohol (12% abv)….Make sure to order….” Fiona Beckett, wine critic for The Guardian.

About Château Bauduc

Owner operators and English ex-pats Gavin and Angela Quinney fell for the lovely Château Bauduc, some 15 miles from the city of Bordeaux, in 1999. The house and the winery are surrounded by 25 hectares of pretty vineyards, where they grow Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon for their white wines, along with Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc for the reds and rosé. Some of their older vines date from 1947 and the family have replanted or planted 15 or so hectares more since 2000.

The estate’s Bordeaux Superieur has been the served at Gordon Ramsay’s three Michelin star restaurant in London for the past nineteen years, a ‘special selection’ at Rick Stein’s for a decade and a half. Oz Clarke is a huge fan, stating, “Bordeaux needs another 100 Bauducs — and fast.” It is also listed at Maze Grill, The Savoy and Petrus, all top London Restaurants.

https://www.bauduc.com/chateau-bauduc-rose-2022/

Chromatography can identify the Terroir

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Scientists from the University of Geneva and the Institute of Vine & Wine Science in Bordeaux using gas chromatography (GC) and electron ionization mass spectrometry can accurately identify the exact origin, Wine Estate or Vineyard a wine comes from.

Their algo is only 50% accurate with the particular Vintage though.

I wonder if the AI takes as much pleasure from identifying a particular Wine as we do!

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Abstract

Connecting chemical properties to various wine characteristics is of great interest to the science of olfaction as well as the wine industry. We explored whether Bordeaux wine chemical identities and vintages (harvest year) can be inferred from a common and affordable chemical analysis, namely, a combination of gas chromatography (GC) and electron ionization mass spectrometry. Using 12 vintages (within the 1990–2007 range) from 7 estates of the Bordeaux region, we report that, remarkably, nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques applied to raw gas chromatograms recover the geography of the Bordeaux region. Using machine learning, we found that we can not only recover the estate perfectly from gas chromatograms, but also the vintage with up to 50% accuracy. Interestingly, we observed that the entire chromatogram is informative with respect to geographic location and age, thus suggesting that the chemical identity of a wine is not defined by just a few molecules but is distributed over a large chemical spectrum. This study demonstrates the remarkable potential of GC analysis to explore fundamental questions about the origin and age of wine.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-023-01051-9

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Château Petrus v Petrus Lambertini

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I remember at the time thinking this court judgement was mad from a brand equity point-of-view:

French court rejects plea from luxury wine label to stop cheap blends being sold under ‘Petrus’ name

Well now, just 5 short years later, Petrus have won their case appeal

Petrus puts a stopper on cheeky red impostor

€1.18 million award to Château Petrus for harming its reputation with a cheap imitation. It included €500,000 in damages and €680,000 to cover the Coureau brothers’ profit. They now plan to appeal.

Rosé 2022 by Kylie Minogue

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Murph introduced this and it’s a Rosé Lesley likes!

Delicious: nice bite, crisp, fresh fruit, lovely colour.

The label says it’s of French origin and the bottler would suggest a Languedoc

Brought to you by the people who launched a string of Celebrity labels: McGuigans, Gordon Ramsay, Ian Botham, Graham Norton etc.

Liberty Nages Rose

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We enjoyed this with Dinner @ Yoi Izakaya

Nice dry clean Pale Rose with lots of berries.

Robbie sampled this as an aperitif. It was served hot, you could taste the Fermented Rice, and improved as it got colder.

Pity about the Grizzly Steak Teriyaki. Izayaka charge €6 corkage on BYOB.

Château de Vaudieu, `Closerie de Vaudieu` Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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A Châteauneuf-du-Pape with lively fragrant berry fruits on the nose, with a touch of liquorice and a hint of black pepper.

This wine is dark ruby in colour. It has lively cherry notes on the nose, a touch of liquorice and hints of black pepper. On the palate, it is full-bodied and the ripe tannins gently support the cherry, cassis and herb character on the finish.

Feature(s): Vegetarian;Vegan
Alcohol (ABV): 15 %

The 18th century Château de Vaudieu has been in the Bréchet family for over 50 years and today is run by Laurent Bréchet, the grandson of the original owner. The name ‘Vaudieu’ originates from ‘Vallée de Dieu’, or ‘Valley of God’, a reference to the beauty of the area around Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Vaudieu has 70 hectares of vineyards in total, of which 60 hectares are planted with red varieties. The vineyards surround those of the famed Château Rayas.

Maison Plantevin Cotes du Rhone

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John enjoyed this – we had it at Dinner with Robbie in La Maison, if a little overpriced @ €40.

Pure, unoaked red from the Rhône Valley. Made with Grenache, Syrah and dash of Carignan

Tasty, fruity but nice and Dry, light – medium bodied. Pure, unoaked red from the Rhône Valley. Made with Grenache, Syrah and dash of Carignan and Cinsault, this gives unbeatable, smooth fruit flavours. Natural fermentation and low sulphur. Strong @ 14.5%. Plantevin now own a total of 40ha of vineyards focusing primarily on both Syrah and Grenache. Starting from humble beginnings in his father’s shed back in 2007, Laurent Plantevin now vinifies his hand-harvested grapes in a new purpose-built winery. Their wines are blended to express the specific terroir of each individual vineyard plot.

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