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Winemakers in Bordeaux, cheered by last year's ideal growing conditions, have said they expected 2015 to be a "magnificent" vintage.
The last 25 years in wine have been signified by the discovery or rediscovery of regions unknown, obscure or half-forgotten.
This summer was a scorcher in France, the second hottest on record. For Bordeaux wine growers, those searing temperatures were the latest reminder that global warming is threatening to upend their world.
A generation ago, a top Bordeaux or Burgundy was an affordable luxury, available to the middle class. The same was true of great wines from California and Italy. But rapid price inflation over the past ...
"This isn't so much a harvest, as a hunt for grapes," said French winemaker Jean-Jacques Robert, with a rueful laugh as he unloaded grapes still warm from his vineyards around Fuisse in Burgundy.