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The cabernet franc picked before October 1 was superb, says Hubert de Bouard, but the late-harvested franc quickly became vegetal and had to be declassified. The merlot came in between September 26 and 29, and Bouard was quick to admit that in St. Emilion "we didn't have the perfect merlot harvest enjoyed in Pomerol." Bouard compares his young '98 to the '95 and '90: "a bit less firm but more opulent than '95, with the chocolatey flavor but not the surmaturite of 1990." Polyphenol levels are practically off the scale in '98, but the '90 was even more tannic, says Bouard. On my early April visit, Bouard told me he would like to do an experimental cuvee in 1999, isolating a half-hectare of vines and removing half the fruit to get the yield down to a mere 22 hectoliters per hectare.

From 1998, 1997 and 1996 Bordeaux (May 1999) by Stephen Tanzer

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