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April 25, 2016

2015 Bordeaux Update & First Offerings

Filed under: deVine's Daily Blog Article — Dirk @ 1:25 pm

2015_first_offeringAuthor: Dirk Chan

The 2015 Bordeaux Futures Campaign has officially begun with a dribbling of Petit Chateaux and a few Cru Bourgeois (see below for the first offerings).The classifed Grand Cru Classe’s will be coming over the course of the next 3-4 weeks.

This is the last call for advance consultation where you identify to us your wishlist of wines, your budget, your favourite appellation or favourite chateau that we will then help fulfill.

Note that we will purchase wines based on the result of all of the advance consultations and offer it to those who have come forward first. Any unsold bottles after the fact will then go on the website for sale to the general public – thus by then availability of what is left may be extremely limited. So, please come forward asap for the best selection. The final deadline for advance consultation will be end of day April 30th.

2015 looks to be an excellent vintage (certainly the best since 2010) where the Merlot based right bank appellations of Pomerol, St. Emilion & satellites are the highlights of the vintage. On the Cabernet based left bank, Margaux and Pessac-Leognan appear to be head of class. Thus we will focus on these appellation for the Petit Chateaux, Cru Bourgeois and Grand Cru Classe’s.

Please feel free to drop us a line at ‘info@devinewines.ca’, or come in person to talk with us.

We will need to know:

1) what your total budget
2) what your average price per bottle
3) class of wine (First Growths, Super Seconds, Third-Fifths Growths, Cru Bourgeois or Petit Chateaux)
4) desired appellation(s) (Left Bank – St. Estephe, Pauillac, St. Julien, Margaux, Pessac, Haut Medoc, Medoc or Right Bank – Pomerol, St. Emilion, Satellites)
5) if you know of specific Chateaux you definitely want, please let us know
6) if you have a vertical of a particular Chateau going, please let us know

We are doing the advance consultation to:

1) help you get what you want at the price you want in the quantities you want
2) help us buy the wines on first tranch prices (with each subsequent tranche (or offering), the price goes up)
3) help us not having to warehouse excessive inventory

This year, we require full payment upfront (this locks the wine in irrespective of exchange rate fluctuations) and the wines will arrive in the store mid-year 2018.

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For those new to Bordeaux, we are doing a tasting of some of the 2008, 2009 and 2010 vintages on Saturday, May 14th where we will taste some great Bordeaux wines and speak to Bordeaux Futures – this is the event to debunk your fears of this most famous of wine producing regions, you can sign up here..

Below are the first offerings for sale (first come first served), check back often as we will be updating this blog with more bottling as they are purchased :

2015 Chateau Marjosse (Entre-Deux-Mers) – $26.99

2015 Chateau Reaut (Premiere Cotes de Bordeaux) – $29.99

2015 Chateau Marsau (Cotes de Francs) – $34.99

2015 Chateau La Tour de Bessan (Margaux) – $44.99

2015 Chateau Moulin Haut-Laroque (Fronsac) – $47.99

2015 Chateau Coutet (Barsac) – 375mL – $49.99

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