How To Use Bordeaux In A Sentence
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a dry Bordeaux
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They will drink their wretched heartless stuff, such as they call claret, or wine of Medoc, or Bordeaux, or what not, with no more meaning than sour rennet, stirred with the pulp from the cider press, and strained through the cap of our Betty.
Lorna Doone
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The city of Bordeaux exudes wealth: its enormous, elegant squares easily rival the Place de Vosges in Paris or Piazza Navona in Rome.
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Example: 1983 was a very good vintage in the appellation of Margaux but nowhere else in Bordeaux that year.
Investing in Liquid Assets
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A peculiarly subtle expression haunts the lower part, sensual and incredulous, like that of a man tasting good Bordeaux with half a fancy it has been somewhat too long uncorked.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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One of these, Chåteau Rauzan-Ségla, a grand cru classé winery in the Margaux region, is celebrating its 350thanniversaryby releasing its 2009 Bordeaux with a label designed and signed by Karl Lagerfeld himself.
Mary Orlin: Tasting Notes on Wine and Style
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As the Archbishop of Bordeaux is in your entourage, he could officiate.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Italian restaurants restricted their list to Italian wines; French restaurant wine lists were a recital of Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Champagne.
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Undoubtedly most famous worldwide for its legendary wines, Bordeaux is the capital of the region known as Aquitaine and is a major cultural centre and a transportation hub between southern France and Spain.
Decanter News
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Sara had other ideas, however, and extended a leg high into the air to flick it up before manoeuvring to execute an exquisite overhead kick that flew past Francois Dubordeaux into the bottom right corner of his goal.
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The variety has always seemed to have its origins in Bordeaux, where it has been enjoying a revival in popularity.
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Based near Bordeaux, WIT is a recently founded firm that packages wine in screw-cap glass tubes containing 4, 5, 6 or 10 centiliters of wine to be sent out as gifts, samples or as "the business card you can drink.
It's Lights, Camera, Strike in France
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To the west lie the Bordeaux lowlands and the Gironde Estuary, to the south the plains of Languedoc, and to the east the Rhône valley.
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The classic reds of Bordeaux are best left until at least a decade after the vintage date printed on the label.
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Red Bordeaux is the world's best wine, and Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are the best grapes.
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Barrel samples of sweet wines from Sauternes and Barsac appellations have fared incredibly well in the barrel tasting of the 2001 vintage, which took place in Bordeaux just last March.
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Bordeaux has a similar route — the D2 — a road that runs through the Left Bank commune of the M é doc, sweeping through some of the most famous appellations in the world, such as Margaux, Saint-Julien, Pauillac and Saint-Est è phe.
Exploring the Wine Route
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When the girls came pedalling along in the Bordeaux race - all legs and flowing hair - they were a sensation.
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Bordeaux in the '20s and' 30s — From Paris to the Aquitaine" presents art and furniture of the Art Deco movement associated to artists from the Bordeaux region, such as ceramist René Buthaud and painter Jean Dupas.
Time Off Europe Calendar
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Mr. Baettig joined Errázuriz in 2003 after training at the University of Chile and obtaining a master's degree from the faculty of oenology at the University of Bordeaux.
Cultivating Pinot Noir
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Just to prove that the Third Tier isn’t comprised of a bunch of wannabes that will never amount to much beyond a fairly decent glass of Bordeaux with your steak and pommes frites, consider this Parker commentary on a 2005 Bordeaux that, as of this writing, remains in barrel.
Investing in Liquid Assets
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Ms. Anderson said Chinese customers will buy a bottle of French Bordeaux because it had "Bordeaux" on the label instead of a comparable Australian wine.
Australia Winery Takes Root in China
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Similarly Bordeaux formed a nucleus for the south-west.
Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Weiss continues in the letter, I put all Bob's negatives in a rucksack and bicycled it to Bordeaux to try to get it on a ship to Mexico.
ARTINFO: Unpacking the "Mexican Suitcase": The Mystery of Robert Capa's Long-Lost War Trove
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When you meet a chateau owner in Bordeaux, his hands are smooth and he's wearing a foulard.
Burgundy: When It's Good, It's Very, Very Good...
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The auberge is on a hillside overlooking the valley towards Bordeaux.
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There is an express service from Paris which completes the journey to Bordeaux in under 4 hours.
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Paris has all the romantic associations you could hope for: sunlit walks by the Seine, picnics in the Jardins de Luxembourg, long conversations over a bottle of Bordeaux in a candlelit bar on the Left Bank.
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The following is my Bordeaux appellation by appellation report of the red wines of the vintage.
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The Bordeaux region produces great red wines
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Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper.
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The style of winemaking is very much in the big and bold French Bordeaux type.
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Top the whole thing off with a dessert of chocolate mousse in strawberry sauce and wash it down with a Bordeaux red.
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The roads to Bordeaux were heavily congested.
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Blessed with excellent terroir and fine chateaux, this could be the area that can push fine Bordeaux onto the table of more Americans.
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Blind tasting is tough – tasting Bordeaux 2005 with Robert Parker
Tasting Bordeaux 2005 blind with Robert Parker | Dr Vino's wine blog
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The botrytis mould contributes to the unique flavours of wines such as Sauternes from Bordeaux, Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling from Germany, and an array of late-harvest wines from other regions.
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With coffee comes cannelés those little custardy "corks" with a dark caramelised shell, a speciality of Bordeaux that go so well with any alcohol or caffeine-led drink.
Evening Standard - Home
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The hotel ballroom was also full of famous bottles from the great chateaux of Bordeaux and these two California wines held their own without a problem.
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In Bordeaux, a double magnum is traditionally considered to be 3 liters, while a Jeroboam is 4.5 liters.
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In Bordeaux, barges must carry chunks of the fuselage up the Garonne River under an 18 th-century bridge that offers scant clearance.
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An essential white grape of Bordeaux, Sémillon is a golden-berried goddess, producing some of the longest-lasting white wines ever made.
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Bristol, with its vital link with Bordeaux, was rapidly becoming the entrepôt of late medieval Severnside; whilst York, Coventry, and especially London were centres of international trade.
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Bordeaux whites, based on Sauvignon Blanc and sometimes blended with Semillon, are crisp and dry but usually not overtly herbaceous.
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Cognac, champagne, Bordeaux, and ouzo are among the Western European product denominations which have already been protected by the European Union.
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Charles Taylors Montrachet Wines of South London is offering consumers the chance to taste Bordeaux primeurs this year, and their event is cheaper than the Bibendum one already announced here.
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Only the rich had access to the very finest clarets of Bordeaux.
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For the practicals, you might have to taste five vintages of a first - rate Bordeaux and decide which wine was which year.
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Although Bordeaux is best known for its red wines, the region produces excellent whites, particularly the sweet Sauternes.
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I have a house near Bordeaux in south-west France.
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It is because of this tannin that the classic combo of steak and young Bordeaux is such a winner.
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Its rise to fame dates only from the middle of the 19th century when the river Baise was canalized and the Armagnacais gained direct access to Bordeaux for the first time.
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Plantings in the Philippines are subject to attack by the fungus Coiticum salmonicolor, causing "albizia canker," which can be devastating unless controlled with Bordeaux mixture or other fungicides.
Chapter 5
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Cult Cabernets ruled, along with first growth Bordeaux and grand cru Burgundy.
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Notably, while many of these wines had a great deal in common, we also enjoyed finding plenty of individuality among the group -- with some wines offering a bit of rustic rawness, some a bit of smoothness, some a grapier taste than others, while some had hints of the kind of structure we associate with Bordeaux.
Sipping Sicily's Nero d'Avola
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As the Archbishop of Bordeaux is in your entourage, he could officiate.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Rounder and "sunnier" than old-fashioned Bordeaux.
Mondosapore
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The style of winemaking is very much in the big and bold French Bordeaux type.
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The term "claret", used to describe Bordeaux wines, may come from the French word "clairet".
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A few kilometers from Cannes, I pass the two-tone bordeaux/cream deuche put-putting along in the right lane.
Words in a French Life
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Like, in fact, Pomerol or Saint-Emilion — legendary French Bordeaux made principally from the recently reviled Merlot.
Merlot for Snobs
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On November 26, French riot police broke through a picket line at a mint producing the new euro coins in Pessac, near Bordeaux.
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Coonawarra is well known for producing Bordeaux-style Cabernet, while McLaren Vale produces typical New World Cabernet - rich, soft and ripe, with lashings of red berry fruit.
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To reflect this, and to evoke a sun-drenched atmosphere, a colour scheme of Mediterranean blues and soft pastels, with the occasional injection of Bordeaux wine tones has been used.
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The location is excellent for walking, and well situated for touring the abbeys and chateaux of the Bordeaux and Bergerac regions.
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I have a house near Bordeaux in south-west France.
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The oenological and viticultural faculties of the universities of Bordeaux and Montpellier have long enjoyed international prestige.
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After France's loss of her colonial empire the merchants of Nantes and Bordeaux sank their capital in the arable land and vineyards of the hinterland.
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Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper.
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Chateau La Lagune" for the French Bordeaux grape wine in the third level of wine village.
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The vintry, he tells us, was that part of the Thames bank where "the merchants of Bordeaux craned their wines out of lighters and other vessels, and there landed and made sale of them.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
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John, like a great red-limbed overgrown moon-calf; and now here you are as sprack a squire and as lusty an archer as ever passed down the highway from Bordeaux, while I am still the same old Samkin Aylward, with never a change, save that I have a few more sins on my soul and a few less crowns in my pouch.
The White Company
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Tracy's evocation of Friuli is a unique one on and Island where everybody talks Bordeaux.
WTN: Channing Daughters Winery 2004 L'Enfant Sauvage Chardonnay (The Hamptons)
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The most important of these was exemption from the Grand Coutume, the export tax imposed on ships sailing from Bordeaux.
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Shaw Vineyard's 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon was released only this year, in adherence towinemaker Steve Shaw's philosophy that Finger Lakes reds should age for several years much like a Bordeaux.
Jason Feulner
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By 1914 it was technically possible for a Danzig bargee to visit Bordeaux and the Black Sea with roughly equal facility.
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The taste of its fermented juice was likened by some to that of a "red Bordeaux '.
PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
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Here, in this small, unpretentious rural backwater on the right bank of Bordeaux's Gironde river, was where those who favoured silky, supple clarets bought their wine.
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In Bordeaux, winemakers are simply trying to make the best grand vin, or top wine, and most will ruthlessly demote wines as they see fit.
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Glenmorangie was among the pioneers of double vatting, and here it has carried the practice to a new level by finishing the whisky in ten barriques that previously held wine from the Margaux region of Bordeaux.
In Pictures: Thirteen Wonderful Scotch Whiskies
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It has a special paint job: Bordeaux Red with "ghosted" stripes.
Neiman Marcus Camaro Convertible: A holiday bargain at twice the price?
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Mr Rutter said that in 2006 the company's business plan was to launch services to Jersey, north-east Scotland and the French areas of Bordeaux, Bergerac and Brittany.
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Bordeaux is on the main Paris-Madrid line so there are frequent trains.
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Between the plateau and Belgium flows a channel, which we may call the Burgundian channel, since it covers old Burgundy; between the plateau and Bretagne is another channel, which from its position we may call the Bordeaux channel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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One thing that surprised me, however, was that Muscadelle was omitted from her list of lesser white grapes that are permitted in Bordeaux.
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The categories were then ranked by a simple, numerically descending scale, first to fifth, called premier cru, deuxième cru, etc, each defined by, or defining, the price paid for them by the Bordeaux wine trade.
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There is an express service from Paris which completes the journey to Bordeaux in under 4 hours.
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Bordeaux's classified vineyards are only allowed to grow sauvignon blanc, semillon, muscadelle, ugni blanc, colombard and merlot blanc.
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Ch teau Margaux gave its name to an entire appellation in the southern M doc region of Bordeaux, which has caused some confusion, and a fair amount of disappointment, since many of the wines entitled to the name Margaux aren't all that good.
A Tale of Two Ch
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Massive submarine pens were built near Bordeaux and the impact they had can be seen from the following figures.
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Adopting the Bordeaux superior brewing technology, specially selected the good quality grape by hand, the tannin soft and lusciousness, charming blackcurrant and black berry aromas.
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Good idea .... and run a few blind tastings against some of those expensive thin acidic Bordeaux wines that have to pollute Al Gore's environment to get to the US.
Please Welcome: The California Wine Club
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It goes without saying that Bordeaux is better known for reds but this wine certainly doesn't let the side down.
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The vineyard is planted in Bordeaux red varietals with Sauvignon Blanc being sourced from Marlborough.
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Equally driven is Jana's husband, Antoine, who gave up working as a banker in the city three years ago and now spends every third week at the château 40 kilometres from Bordeaux running the vineyard.
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Mr Rutter said that in 2006 the company's business plan was to launch services to Jersey, north-east Scotland and the French areas of Bordeaux, Bergerac and Brittany.
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He also said that it was tough to taste Bordeaux that was so clearly meant for the long haul at this point in its evolution and praised the organizer, Howard Kaplan of EWS, for “taking time away from his family this morning” to double decant the wines (from bottle to a decanter, then back into the rinsed bottle).
Tasting Bordeaux 2005 blind with Robert Parker | Dr Vino's wine blog
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2000 was a good Bordeaux year, some call it great, and even the lesser Bordeaux rouges like this one are good value for money.
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Was it part of an incredibly intricate scheme for wine-world domination, possibly some sort of prescient countermove against the nascent Chinese interest in the rival region of Bordeaux?
In the Domain of the Earth Mother of Burgundy
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The classic reds of Bordeaux are best left until at least a decade after the vintage date printed on the label.
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I think that those in attendance found this a very refreshing stop -- both because the focus is on white wines and because Chris talked more about similarities to Friuli, Austria and the Loire Valley than Bordeaux, which we heard several times during the weekend.
The New York Cork Report:
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Some vineyards affected by copper toxicity in the Bordeaux area are much reduced in vigour, but the problem can be overcome by adding lime to the soil.
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Its fame and wealth predated the 1855 classification of Bordeaux wines, but it was placed alongside the other first class growths in that classification.
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We ordered glasses of white Lillet, a sweet French apéritif wine from Bordeaux.
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BRIERY: I usually think of California Zinfandel rather than Bordeaux when the term briery comes into play.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates
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As a young man Montaigne practised law in Bordeaux and also resided frequently at court.
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The Agenais was an important wine-growing area and its cession further strengthened the rapidly developing commercial links between Bordeaux and London.
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Administrador woke us all up, and gleefully presented us with an enormous bowl of sangaree, made of the remains of the Bordeaux and the brandy and the pisco, and plenty of ice, -- ice this time, -- and sugar, and limes, and slices of pineapple, Madam, -- the which he had concocted during our slumber.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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Now, it's almost routine to find single malts matured in used casks which once held cognac, fino sherry, Madeira, Malaga, Bordeaux and other wines and spirits.
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It is not that great wines were not made in Bordeaux in 2000, merely that in my tasting book, unlike my assessment of the ‘82 and ‘61 clarets, there are not enough of them.
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In the faculty of oenology at Bordeaux's Institute of Vineyard and Wine Sciences the vintage report showed that the growing season met almost perfectly all the conditions for a great Bordeaux vintage.
Sunshine and Vine
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While most Sauvignon Blanc wines from Bordeaux are consumed within a few years of the vintage, the dry and sweet wines from the great chateaux can age for decades.
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She formed what she called a platonic friendship -- and it was really so -- with a certain M. de Seze, who was advocate-general at Bordeaux.
Famous Affinities of History — Complete
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All those wines called in England clarets are the produce of the country round Bordeaux, or the Bordelais; but it is remarkable that there is no pure wine in France known by the name of claret, which is a corruption of clairet, a term that is applied there to any red or rose-coloured wine.
The Book of Household Management
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Despite his affection for Champagne, Chef Ducasse's cellar at home in Monaco is dominated by Burgundy and Bordeaux, many of them grand crus and first growths.
Alain Ducasse
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To their final 3 - 1 victory over French side Bordeaux, Ziege picture with a warm hug Kahn.
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‘We have different wine glasses for everything,’ notes Guillet, including individual styles for reds, burgundies, ports, Bordeaux and vintages from Alsace.
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Given that most Bordeaux blends based on Cabernet Sauvignon used to be cellared for 15 years, the contention that Pomerol wines were ready to be drunk after three to four years was seen as the height of convenience.
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The people it does not suit are the consumers, and the owners of a group of well-established but unclassified chateaux that produce excellent wines far removed from the bathtub rubbish of the generic AC Bordeaux wine market.
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The classic reds of Bordeaux are best left until at least a decade after the vintage date printed on the label.
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He led a retiring life, first in his native Bordeaux, then from 1870 in Paris, and until he was in his fifties he worked almost exclusively in black-and-white - in lithographs and charcoal drawings.
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The insurrection at Bordeaux against the gabel in 1548 was certainly more serious than that of Rochelle in 1542; but it is also quite certain that
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
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Now his cellar is deep enough to have plenty of old vintage of white Burgundy and white Bordeaux to draw upon to hedge his exposure to premox, and I am sure that despite his Herculean efforts to ascertain provenance on the old wines he has purchased over the last decade, it is highly unlikely that he has not had to deal with more than his fair share of expensive fakes in his cellar.
Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
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The rare but flavoursome petit verdot grape is becoming fashionable in Bordeaux where it is used to give top clarets the edge.
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Wine shops sell Bordeaux wine primeurs the spring after the harvest.
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The problem is that, apart from Champagne, the top Bordeaux chateaux and the big names in Burgundy and the Rhone, the rest of the country cannot seem to reach the 21st century wine lover.
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Built on an old railway line, the 35-mile track links Bordeaux with Sauveterre de Guyenne.
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For those looking for that quintessential Bordeaux character of blackcurrant and cedar, which always reminds me of an empty cigar box, and rich, ripe roundness, it is worth casting your net further.
The Heart of Bordeaux
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Aïtali is a design firm launched in 2003 in Bordeaux whose defining statement is: “Dream and reality of new manufacturing processes to give the appearance of new furniture … provocative new emotions.”
Create the Illusion of More Space with Transparency
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Bordeaux's best wines initially were classified back in 1855 into five different levels, from first cru classé to fifth cru classé, and the amounts that can be produced are limited.
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Like the Médoc in Bordeaux, the low-lying parts of the Maremma were swampy or marshy for much of their history with chronic problems of malaria.
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Château Les Ormes de Pez, Cru Bourgeois, St-Estèphe, Bordeaux 1995 £35, MajesticFrom the same stable as the very smart bordeaux-classed growth Château Lynch-Bages, this is a perfectly mature Christmas claret from a chateau that regularly outshines its relatively lowly cru bourgeois ranking.
The 20 best Christmas red wines
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Britain's boutique cheesemakers create some of the best cheeses in the world, capable of delivering smells and tastes as complex and multi-layered as the great wines of Burgundy or Bordeaux.
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Bigger reds, such as Bordeaux's Cabernet Sauvignon, usually spend two years maturing in oak casks, as do Spain's gran reserva Riojas and Italy's brutish Barolos.
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When Incisa's Cabernet blend, Sassicaia (meaning "place of many stones"), finally reached the market with the 1968 vintage, it incited wine revolutionaries across Italy, thanks partly to its Bordeaux-rivaling depth and lusciousness -- from a vineyard in Nowheresville!
The Other Tuscany
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Grape variety(ies): Cabernet Sauvignon, originally from Bordeaux. Has found a new home in languedoc-roussillon, where it produces good wine when the yield is limited.
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Bordeaux is on the main Paris-Madrid line so there are frequent trains.
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Long Island Merlot has achieved a very high standard of consistent trueness-to-type which, in my opinion, surpasses most of Bordeaux, dollar for dollar.
The New York Cork Report
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The Bordeaux exhibition goes all out for an abundance of images.
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Monsieur Tavel, negotiant a Bordeaux himself, was more likely to be aware of a fellow wineshipper than of a chateau seventy kilometres to the north. '' ll find out, 'he said.
PROOF
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In New Orleans, the dish is called Bordelaise, even though there's not a drop of red Bordeaux in it.
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We caught a late bus out of Bordeaux and arrived in darkness.
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They were more ambivalent about Montesquieu - a magistrate in the parlement of Bordeaux, a feudal lord living in a moated castle, and an apologist for noble power.
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The taste of its fermented juice was likened by some to that of a "red Bordeaux '.
PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
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By 1914 it was technically possible for a Danzig bargee to visit Bordeaux and the Black Sea with roughly equal facility.
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Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper.
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In the summer of 2000, she planned a two-week trip through Bordeaux, Burgundy and Beaujolais to see historic chateaux.
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I enjoyed its rich, ripe, heavy oaky fruit with that classic touch of oaky austerity on the finish that Bordeaux is renowned for.
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Sochaux had a goal chalked off themselves in stoppage time and could count themselves unfortunate not to come away with a point in a nailbiting match which saw both sides hit the woodwork. inflict a fifth defeat in six games on Bordeaux as the champions 'quest to defend their title slips further from their reach.
ESPNsoccernet
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This rare Bordeaux must be allowed to breathe for at least 2 hours
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Studies of old vineyard soils in Bordeaux have shown that fertility can be restored by heavy applications of organic matter, lime, phosphorus, and potassium.
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In Bordeaux, however, the jeroboam is five litres - roughly equal to six bottles or a half case.
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Merlot is not a feature grape in parts of Bordeaux but it is very important in all of Bordeaux.
2008 Harvest Report: Finger Lakes
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Accountants reckon that while most of us know the price of turbot or fillet steak, few of us know the price of an obscure Bordeaux claret.
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You can't go wrong choosing Bordeaux.
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The name Oberon appears first in English literature in Lord Berners 'translation of _Huon of Bordeaux_ (c.
The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'
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The high-speed train service is planned to extend from Paris to Bordeaux.
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Is the Bordeaux area too grand to produce a popular, everyday pink wine?
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In Arcachon Bay, the tidal estuary that lies at the tip of the Dordogne and Garonne rivers in southwest France, I have enjoyed oysters with very dry white Bordeaux.
The Catch of the Day
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The official, a career diplomat who speaks fluent French and likes to vacation in Italy, sat back and took an appreciative sip from his glass of good red wine from Bordeaux.
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The walls had classic Bordeaux wallpaper, the table cloths looked like Indonesian batik.
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And while the options for red wine might once have ranged from Bordeaux to Burgundy, wine stores now stock Cabernets and Pinot Noirs from a dozen different countries in just as many styles.
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Unlike some of the best Bordeaux vintages, the wines are often bothered by a hint of earthy greenness, but in 2000 the grapes got ripe, retained acidity and exhibited supple tannins.
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While most of the world is obsessed with sell-by dates, freshness and ripeness, the sleepy hamlet of Sauternes sits 30 miles south of Bordeaux, obsessed with rot, decay and fungus.
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“_Garçon_, put a roast fowl and some _pâtés_, with a loaf of bread and a bottle of Bordeaux, into a _corbeille_ and send it down to the port.”
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
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After tasting their wine, a smooth, dark ruby Bordeaux blend with a rich berry flavor, I'm convinced they're well on their way.
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As others have noted, the Bordeaux tasting is almost entirely barrel samples.
Does the Wine Advocate buy over $700,000 worth of wine a year? | Dr Vino's wine blog
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Bordeaux as the champions 'quest to defend their title slips further from their reach.
ESPN.com
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For the great sweet Bordeaux whites, you need Sauternes of similar status and you go to d' Yquem, where they don't do red.
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There is an express service from Paris which completes the journey to Bordeaux in under 4 hours.
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Apart from the bankers, there was Charlotte de Rothschild (1819-1884) who founded the Home for Aged Incurables and the Jews' Emigration Society; Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812-1870), who bought the land near Bordeaux that became the Château Mouton Rothschild vineyards; and Arthur de Rothschild (1851-1903), a philatelist.
Great dynasties of the world: The Rothschilds
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Rindo $75, the signature Kenzo Estate wine, is a Bordeaux varietal that nods to California reds and the rindo, a Japanese bellflower that blooms around the time of harvest.
Marie Elena Martinez: 2010's Must-Visit Napa Winery: Kenzo Estate
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Small estates prefer to do malolactic in barrel because they believe it integrates the wood better and gives the wine a more forward sweetness early in life, making the young, grapy wine more appealing to wine journalists/critics who descend on Bordeaux every spring to taste the newest vintage.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates
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The term "claret", used to describe Bordeaux wines, may come from the French word "clairet".
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Although less harmful to plants, sulfur is also less effective against many fungous diseases than Bordeaux, the universal fungicide which, unfortunately, tends to burn the foliage under certain environmental conditions.
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Bordeaux is on the main Paris-Madrid line so there are frequent trains.
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Olivier is an experient wine label designer comes from France. He graduated from fine arts faculty in university of Bordeaux.
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The term "claret", used to describe Bordeaux wines, may come from the French word "clairet".
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Experiments showed Chlorothalonil and Bordeaux mixture were effective fortheir control.
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I have been around the restaurant business enough to have witnessed 1st Growth Bordeaux mixed with soda, ice cubes with Puligny Montrachet, and orange juice with Louis Roederer "Cristal" Champagne.
Brad Haskel: Do Food and Wine Pairings Matter?
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From the Telegraph story: “Bordeaux winegrowers have a habit of throwing in superlatives about vintages and the sceptical may question the fortuity of such a great year given that Bordeaux sales have been falling in the wake of the 2005 boom.”
Bordeaux 09, Sean Connery, Binny’s, uprooting – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
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Bordeaux is in south-west France and produces fine red wines that are often referred to as claret.
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A soft fruity wine displaying typical balance of a Bordeaux wine.
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Some hours later followed Perigordian duck, with trimmings, and Bordeaux.
Ensign Flandry
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On 13 June Paris was declared an open city, as the French government fled to Bordeaux.
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Bordeaux is 60 miles to the southwest.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, the top thirty chateaux in Bordeaux only produce half a million cases of wine in any one year.
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Merlot is Bordeaux's most planted black grape variety, and has been enjoying unaccustomed popularity elsewhere.
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The disgraced Capt. Rolf Mueller is blackmailed by his superiors into helming a merchant ship packed with rubber cargo from Japan to Bordeaux.
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It's refreshing to see sommeliers who would be just as comfortable shotgunning beers in a frat house as evaluating high-end Bordeaux at a French chateau.
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Every spring a group of investors, wholesalers and wine critics descend on a few established Bordeaux wine producers to taste the fermented grape juice.
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I'd love to see a Stars and STRIPE back up in JSA, and I'd also go for Chase, Firestorm, Atom and Sasha Bordeaux back ups.
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The 26-year-old right fullback has rejected the offer of a new contract at Lille and has been linked with Bordeaux and St Etienne, yet he also claims the Trotters are also interested.
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But when his Italian wine ran out, the French Foreign Legion played the role of vinous seventh cavalry. ‘They got a ration of half a litre of Bordeaux a day, so we bought some wine from them.’
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They sailed from Bordeaux on a converted whaling ship mobbed with American servicemen returning from the War, still drunk on victory.
AMAGANSETT
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Martin's death closed one of the more fascinating chapters of recent Bordeaux history.
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Alas! in a day or two after it had taken place, son altesse royale set out for Bordeaux ....
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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Top the whole thing off with a dessert of chocolate mousse in strawberry sauce and wash it down with a Bordeaux red.
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They are free of the meagerness and nasty tannins that can beset lackluster Bordeaux years.
A Refreshing Bordeaux
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The history of the first group of wines has been heavily influenced, nay hampered, by the commercial muscle of protectionist Bordeaux.
