Tertre-Rôteboeuf

Two thousand seven was a very difficult climate for the grape vine, and harvesting at the right moment was tricky, said Francois Mitjavile. "The challenge was to get true maturity," he began. "Lots of wines have charming, primary aromas that are not too ripe, but this type of wine could not be extracted without getting rough tannins. And at the other extreme, people who picked their merlot too late found that their fruit lost its fruit: that is, part of the fruit lost its aromatic expression and faded away. But ideally ripe fruit in 2007 has real dynamism." Mitjavile picked his amphitheater vineyard in three days flat, beginning on October 8. And he credited his wife and daughter with helping him harvest at the right time. "They came to me on a Sunday and said 'you must come and taste the grapes.' I was not planning to start picking yet, but I tasted the grapes and they were right. We started harvesting the next day." Incidentally, Mitjavile has never made a second wine at this estate, so what he sees is what you get. "The character of the vintage is very strong here because there is no selection," he pointed out.

From 2007, 2006 and 2005 Bordeaux (May 2008) by Stephen Tanzer

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