What springs to mind when you think of Bordeaux? Probably châteaux the size of medieval palaces, formal dinners, and rows and rows of pristine vines, neatly manicured rose bushes the only other signs of plant life. What you’re unlikely to be imagining are cow horns stuffed with manure buried in the ground, or horse-drawn ploughs churning through earthworm-rich soil. ‘In the past, in Bordeaux, you were scared to say you were growing biodynamically,’ says Corinne Comme, who manages 10ha of biodynamic vines at Château du Champ des Treilles in Entre-Deux-Mers with her husband Jean-Michel. ‘Now it’s trendy.’ An engineer and geologist, Jean-Michel Comme was behind the first transition of a grand cru classé estate on Bordeaux’s Left Bank to biodynamics. Although he and Corinne first came across the concept in the mid-1990s, he didn’t begin to advocate for the approach at Château Pontet-Canet in Pauillac until the early 2000s. ‘Corinne was scared,’ he recalls. ‘She thought they would fire me.’ "Behind the more esoteric elements is a series of principles that have been shown to improve soil health and vine strength" Originally laid out in a series of lectures by Austrian philosopher, scientist and social reformer Rudolf Steiner in 1924, biodynamic farming emerged as a holistic approach to agriculture before quickly evolving into formal certification movements. At its core, biodynamic farming centres on soil health and biodiversity; most distinctively, it operates according to the lunar calendar, with practitioners timing agricultural activities around specific ‘fruit days’, ‘root days’, ‘leaf days’ and ‘flower days’ to align with cosmic rhythms believed to influence plant growth and agricultural processes. For many in Bordeaux – Jean-Michel Comme included – this all sounded a bit wacky. ‘I was young, full of expectations about chemistry; the way biodynamics was presented was so remote that I felt it was crazy,’ Comme says. ‘But with experience, we did change our minds.’ Why? Because behind the more esoteric elements is a series of principles that have been shown to improve soil health and vine strength. In vineyards, biodynamic farming means specific practices such as hand-harvesting, using natural composts made with specific herbal and mineral preparations, avoiding chemical fertilisers and pesticides, and treating the entire vineyard as a self-sustaining ecosystem. In the cellar, there’s an emphasis on minimal intervention, using native yeasts, avoiding commercial additives, keeping sulphur use to under 70ppm, and employing gentle pressing and ageing techniques that respect the wine’s natural development. While biodynamics took root in regions like the Loire and Burgundy in the 1990s, biodynamic winemaking in Bordeaux largely began in the new millennium, with just two early St-Emilion exceptions: Château Meylet, which has been practising it since 1987, and Château Fonroque, experimenting since 1995 with direction from Loire legend Nicolas Joly. This delay largely stemmed from two factors. First, Bordeaux’s humid maritime climate means that vines are especially vulnerable to both downy and powdery mildew, making the avoidance of synthetic fungicides a risky business. Second, large châteaux with multimillioneuro operations were reluctant to abandon the technological viticulture and winemaking that had built their global reputations in the first place. Comme, however, was convinced of the virtues of biodynamics. He began by seeking the assistance of François Bouchet. The Loire Valley winemaker was one of the first in France to pioneer biodynamics, also consulting for Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Domaine Leroy and Domaine Leflaive in Burgundy. Bouchet guided the transition to biodynamics at Comme’s Château du Champ des Treilles; then, he persuaded Château Pontet-Canet owner Alfred Tesseron of its merits. In 2004, it was trialled on 15ha (about 20% of the estate’s total growing area) of the fifth growth at which Comme was also technical director. A severe mildew outbreak in 2007 led to the use of pesticides, undoing three years of progress, but it then became a crucial lesson that strengthened their long-term commitment to biodynamics. ‘They believed the fruit had more expression, more brightness,’ says the current technical director at Pontet-Canet, Mathieu Bessonnet, who reveals that they converted the whole of the growing area soon after. ‘It’s obviously much more difficult, time-consuming and expensive, so it was very risky,’ he adds. Since then, biodynamic farming has become a significant and growing practice across different classed growths in the region, with some of the most prestigious estates – such as Château Latour and Château Palmer – adopting biodynamic methods (the latter certified). ‘The link between the wines and the place where the fruit came from had become less and less obvious,’ says Château Palmer’s technical director Thomas Duroux, commenting on the region’s turn to the trend. He notes that, since the noughties, many have adopted organic practices in a bid to reverse this perceived drop in terroir definition. ‘Biodynamics is, in a way, the same story as organic farming, but with a larger vision,’ he adds. This shared perspective has led to more cooperation between practitioners. Every spring, the Médoc branch of the Biodynamic Agriculture Movement gathers at Château Ferrière. After unearthing a thousand manure-filled cow horns and replacing them with silica-filled ones (a process reversed in autumn to produce preparations 500 and 501, required for Demeter certification), participants share wines and gardengrown salads. The humus removed from the cow horns is stored in a cold, damp facility and made available to members. ‘We do that for free,’ says Claire Lurton, owner of Château Ferrière. ‘It’s a community.’ Though ‘community’ might be too strong a word for some, these gatherings symbolise a deepening professional exchange that has emerged among estates of all sizes through the practice of biodynamic winemaking. In fact, the shift among the classed growths has happened at the same time as these practices have been adopted by smaller growers arriving in the region. Christophe Landry of Château des Graviers, for example, returned to Arsac in the 1990s and began practising biodynamics around the same time as Comme at Pontet-Canet. He’s consulted for the Lurton estates and other properties. Originally from Minervois in Languedoc, Michel Théron established Clos du Jaugueyron nearby and has been certified biodynamic since 2008, while Laurence Alias and Pascale Choime – who are both from southwest France – established Closerie des Moussis, a patchwork of sites across 2ha, including a 170-year-old pre-phylloxera plot leased from Théron. On the Right Bank, other producers began switching lanes even earlier. Le Puy, owned by the Amoreau family, began practising in 1998, with certification since 2013, and Château Gombaude-Guillot in Pomerol has been certified biodynamic since 2006. While larger estates like Latour and Palmer collaborate on issues like mildew, smaller producers tend to engage more with one another. Shared biodynamic practices, however, are definitely helping to break down barriers. For example, Château Haut-Bages Libéral maintains regular communication with its neighbours at Château Latour, and the son of Théron at Clos du Jaugueyron interned at Château Palmer for two months. Can we speak of a unity of praxis? Not exactly. There is considerable variation in which aspects of biodynamics winemakers emphasise, regardless of estate size. The primary aim across the board is achieving living soil with rich biodiversity to promote deep-rooted vines. In pursuit of this, some winemakers emphasise tree growing or cover cropping (like Haut-Bages Libéral, which also recently planted a variety of local and fruit trees). Others, such as Le Puy, let nature take its course, allowing a diverse array of plants and flowers to sprout from the earth. Whether certified or not, biodynamic practitioners throughout Bordeaux use homeopathic treatments like nettle teas for the vines – they are believed to stimulate soil health, enhance plant immunity and improve nutrient uptake. More important than any of this, however, is the concept of energy. How can the energy of the plant be retained as its raw material transforms into wine? Every winemaker I visited was at least intrigued by the concept – and most were captivated. After a few days in the sometimes eerily flat Médoc, I drive through the verdant hills of St-Emilion to Le Puy, arriving with a raised spirit. Standing before a 5,000-year-old Celtic cromlech, Harold Langlais, the estate’s director, tells me, ‘Le Puy is a place of energy and life,’ pointing to its deep history as an intersection of water springs. At modern-day Le Puy, this philosophy extends from the vines to the cellar. Indeed, many others I speak to express that, since adopting biodynamics, the most striking change in their wines has been an increase in ‘energy’. It’s a term without a precise definition, but according to Château Palmer’s makers, something shifted with the 2015 vintage, the second year after full conversion. ‘You cannot measure it,’ Thomas Duroux says. ‘You can just feel it.’ At Château Durfort-Vivens, where the vineyard was operating under biodynamic principles by 2013 (with full conversion by 2016), owner Gonzague Lurton recalls the 2014 vintage as ‘the first where you really feel the energy of biodynamics’. It’s tactile and warming, with a sophisticated grip and charm. ‘It’s what I love – the linearity of tannins, never weak from start to finish. With many of the estates I visited, their wines showed an immediate appeal, vibrant even in their youth. Is energy just another way of describing freshness? Laurence Alias at Closerie des Moussis trained as an agricultural engineer; for her, energy and vitality are tied to the physical properties of grapes grown biodynamically. ‘We have more acidity, that’s an analytic fact,’ she tells me, standing in front of a newly acquired plot of vines bordered by forest. It might be romantic to think of energy as something ineffable, but it’s also rooted in what remains within the grapes. ‘Our idea of energy is based more on Einstein than Steiner,’ Langlais later qualifies. ‘Energy is matter.’ Biodynamic winemaking in Bordeaux: five to follow Château Pontet-Canet At the 55ha Pontet-Canet estate in Pauillac, an immensely smooth operation is palpable. Winemakers here have spent almost two decades honing their biodynamic craft, continually moving towards a goal of self-sufficiency for the estate. Sturdy Comtois horses, introduced in 2008, now work half the vineyard, preventing soil compaction. Vineyards are sprayed over a single day using compost and herbal teas produced from plants grown in and around the property and processed in the state-of-the-art infusion room. Biodiversity-boosting fruit trees and hedges have been planted. The estate even employs a carpenter who repurposes wood from vats used on the property. Ageing involves custom-made wooden eggs and qvevri-style amphorae, with no fining and minimal filtration. The result? A Pauillac with untypical levels of energy and minerality, and a plush, velvety texture. But it’s more than that – according to Bessonnet, thanks to a low-intervention approach across the board, ‘you can really feel the soil.’ Château Palmer Thomas Duroux’s conviction in biodynamics is based in what he calls a ‘holistic vision’. ‘We started to see the entire place as a living organism,’ he says of Château Palmer, one of the most storied and historically significant third-growth estates in Bordeaux. When converting (a process that started in 2009), the Margaux estate was initially guided by François Bouchet’s son Matthieu, but now it follows its own evolving philosophy, integrating cover crops, animals for fertilisation and estate-grown vegetables and meat. ‘It’s just going back to agricultural common sense,’ Duroux says. ‘That was the way to grow anything before World War II.’ This respect for nature results in wines that are deeply tied to their terroir. ‘If I had to describe the wines how they are today, compared to how they were before, I’ll just say that it’s not a revolution, but we have the feeling that the wines have a better identity,’ says Duroux. He likens biodynamics to restoring an old painting: ‘Suddenly, you see small details that you were not able to see because of the dust.’ The estate uses stainless-steel vats for fermentation and temperature-controlled rooms for barrel-ageing, combined with nativeyeast and low-sulphur winemaking, to produce its esteemed Alter Ego and Château Palmer cuvées; both have been increasingly celebrated among critics and drinkers since the turn to biodynamics. ‘We just think it does help to go a little bit further in the interpretation of the place,’ says Duroux. Château Durfort-Vivens Standing over a rustic sorting table explaining how it used to work, Gonzague Lurton is visibly passionate about the savoir-faire of the past. This sensibility is reflected in the current winemaking practices, too, and in the second-growth Margaux estate’s reputation (and critics’ scores) increasing year on year. The thing to emphasise is that what began with a biodynamic approach in the vineyards led to a series of domino effects that changed the character of the wines. In search of what Lurton calls greater ‘singularity’, the proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon had already risen to over 90% by 2014 (from around 75%); and with the use of indigenous yeasts during fermentation and the reduction of sulphur levels over time (initially sparked by Demeter’s upper limits of 70mg/l), the wines have become more aromatically complex and expressive. The introduction of amphorae by Italian producer Tava has allowed for microoxidation without overextraction, contributing to a more delicate balance of flavours, with the 2019 estate wine a blend aged one third in amphorae and the rest in barrel. ‘It’s not a big wine,’ says Lurton. ‘And it’s what I was looking for with biodynamics, in terms of style.’ Château des Graviers Christophe Landry’s pioneering status in Margaux stems from an instinct refined over decades at his own estate. He grows medicinal plants — horsetail, absinthe, calendula, chamomile — for vineyard treatments, as well as using the manure from his own cows. ‘What we need to remember is that biodynamics isn’t just a practice,’ he tells me. ‘It’s about finding your own path to self-sufficiency.’ His precision extends to the cellar, where he uses concrete tanks, amphorae and oak barrels (produced according to the biodynamic calendar) tailored to each of the five cépages’ oxygenation needs, then ages the wines for different lengths of time. Timing is everything, with harvest choices also following the biodynamic calendar. Obsessive care for the vines’ life cycles goes hand in hand with the level of precision in the cellar. The outcome is two phenomenal wines that are, as Landry puts it, ‘thirstquenching’. Château des Graviers and Quintessence — which contains a higher proportion of Petit Verdot and is aged longer in barrel and amphorae — are aromatically expressive, velvety and strikingly lively, with the latter offering more depth and an enveloping finish. Expanding to 18ha, Landry has also turned his focus to Clos Dufourg, cultivating vines on previously wild land nearby and hand-building a striking new cellar with cement tanks painted with clay from the surrounding earth. Le Puy For technical director Harold Langlais, the Le Puy estate’s significance lies in how it challenges Bordeaux’s conventional identity. Outside of the region’s traditional focus on appellations and classifications, Le Puy sits on a plateau near St-Emilion. The estate’s land is unusual, with no topsoil but a deep limestone bedrock beneath red-brown clay, which forces the vines to develop deep roots to access the earth’s natural water and nutrients. This is further supported by horse-ploughing and biodynamic sprays made from horsetail, buckthorn and nettles, which grow on the property. ‘Our approach focuses on rooting the vine deep,’ Langlais explains, ‘encouraging it to search out hidden nutrients.’ A vigorous wind circulates around the vines, and Langlais explains the effects of the elements. ‘The beauty of Le Puy is that it’s an acid factory. The whole place creates acidity in the berries.’ The biodynamic philosophy extends to the winemaking, with two different processes applied to their 100% Merlot cuvées. Cuvée Emilien uses a ‘decantation method’, or ‘fermentation by infusion’, while Barthélemy is produced with zero sulphites and a process of lees-stirring called ‘dynamisation’, which is done on fruit days and involves a specific motion to create a vortex in the old barrels it ages in. ‘Barthélemy is much more intense,’ Langlais says. ‘All the matter taken by the plant is in there.’

Written for Club Oenologique in 2025, Joel Hart visits Bordeaux to track the region’s belated embrace of biodynamic winemaking. While other French regions ploughed ahead, Bordeaux had its reasons for delayed adoption. Yet now the practice is booming, and Hart gauges its employment across estates.

Written for Club Oenologique, contributor Joel Hart visits Bordeaux to track the region’s belated embrace of biodynamic winemaking. 

Taking root: the rise of biodynamic winemaking in Bordeaux

Group CEO Patrick O’Connor reflects on Bordeaux 2025: a hot, dry and early vintage defined by small yields, precise viticulture, restrained winemaking and a new wave of estates delivering wines of real distinction.

Patrick O’Connor, Group CEO, explores Bordeaux 2025: a hot, dry, early vintage shaped by precision, small yields and standout wines.

Bordeaux 2025 en primeur: vintage overview      

Bordeaux 2025: vintage overview               

After the difficult conditions of 2024, Bordeaux has delivered a vintage that has surprised almost everyone. The 2025 growing season was among the hottest and driest of recent decades, with yields collapsing across much of the region. Yet rather than producing another 2022-style vintage of power and opulence, the wines have emerged with freshness, moderate alcohols and remarkable aromatic precision. Almost every major critic references the same paradox: a year that looked destined to produce massive wines instead yielded bottles of energy, balance and finesse. There is less agreement on where 2025 ultimately sits among Bordeaux's recent great vintages. Some critics compare it to 2016, others to 2019, 2020 or even 1961. What they largely agree on, however, is that the best wines are outstanding – and that this is a vintage where terroir, vineyard management and winemaking decisions matter enormously. William Kelley – Wine Advocate William Kelley sees 2025 as a vintage that reveals rather than conceals. He describes it as a "clarifier" rather than an amplifier, arguing that the wines expose differences in terroir, viticulture and winemaking with unusual transparency. Although the growing season was dominated by heat and drought, Kelley believes the resulting wines are fundamentally different from 2022. Cooler nights, lower alcohols and timely late-season rain produced wines that combine concentration, ripeness and freshness in a way that feels distinctive. He repeatedly returns to the notion that the best 2025s are classically proportioned despite their intensity. Unlike some critics, Kelley is reluctant to identify a single winning appellation. Instead, he sees success as highly estate-specific, with the finest wines distinguished by balance, precision and restraint rather than sheer power. Kelley's highlights: Larcis Ducasse, Jean Faure, Sociando-Mallet, Quinault l'Enclos, Le Pin Beausoleil Explore Kelley's full report, notes and scores on Wine Advocate (subscribers only). Jane Anson – Inside Bordeaux For Jane Anson, 2025 is "the paradox vintage". The best wines are immensely impressive, but she cautions strongly against broad-brush conclusions. Anson places the vintage comfortably ahead of 2017, 2021 and 2024, and broadly alongside 2015 and 2019 in terms of potential. Yet she repeatedly notes that this is not a year where collectors can buy indiscriminately. Low pH levels, high acidity and significant tannic structure mean some wines will require patience, while others may never fully resolve. She sees the strongest performances coming from Bordeaux's great water-regulating terroirs, particularly the limestone and clay soils of Saint-Émilion and the best parts of the Left Bank. Pomerol is more variable, with dramatic differences depending on soil type and water retention. Anson's wine of the vintage is Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse, while Canon, Petrus, Cheval Blanc and Château Margaux all feature prominently among her highest-rated wines. Anson's highlights: Ch. Haut Bailly, Mouton Rothschild, Margaux, Smith Haut Lafitte, Leoville Las Cases, Petrus, Beauséjour, Vieux Château Certan, Lafleur,  Tertre Roteboeuf, Haut-Brion Blanc, Les Champs Libres, Doisy-Daëne,  Aile d'Argent Blanc, Pavillon Blanc Read Jane Anson’s report on the Left Bank, Right Bank and white wine on Inside Bordeaux (subscribers only). Antonio Galloni – Vinous Antonio Galloni is one of the most enthusiastic commentators on the vintage, describing the finest wines as "nothing short of thrilling". What impresses him most is the combination of concentration and freshness. The summer heat delivered tiny berries and naturally low yields, yet many wines finished with surprisingly moderate alcohol levels and striking aromatic lift. Galloni believes modern viticulture played a critical role, allowing producers to navigate extreme conditions more successfully than would have been possible a generation ago. He identifies Margaux as the appellation of the vintage and describes Pauillac as "jam-packed with great wines". Saint-Émilion's clay-limestone plateau also impressed him enormously. Pomerol, meanwhile, is the region he found most inconsistent. Galloni also highlights several lesser-known estates that he believes overperformed in 2025, noting that some of the vintage's most exciting discoveries may come outside Bordeaux's traditional elite. Galloni's highlights: Beau-Séjour Bécot, Canon, La Gaffelière, Troplong Mondot, La Mission Haut-Brion, L'If, Margaux, Lafite Rothschild Explore Antonio Galloni's full report, notes and scores on Vinous (subscribers only). Neal Martin – Vinous Neal Martin describes 2025 as a vintage that constantly defies expectations. He argues that the late-August rain fundamentally changed the trajectory of the year, turning what appeared destined to become another 2022 into something altogether more nuanced. Martin calls it "a dialled-down and more precise 2010", a comparison that appears repeatedly throughout his report. He finds concentration and structure, but also freshness, restraint and remarkable aromatic detail. Like Galloni, he is highly enthusiastic about the Left Bank, particularly Pauillac, Saint-Julien and Saint-Estèphe. He also believes several of the greatest successes come from Saint-Émilion's limestone soils, while Pomerol shows more variation than many neighbouring appellations. Perhaps most notably, Martin sees 2025 as one of the strongest recent vintages for Sauternes, praising the purity and freshness of the best sweet wines. Martin's highlights: Montrose, Haut-Brion, Lafite Rothschild, Lafleur, Petrus, Latour Explore Neal Martin's full report, notes and scores on Vinous (subscribers only). James Suckling James Suckling describes 2025 as one of the most exciting Bordeaux vintages he has encountered in more than forty years of tasting barrel samples. He repeatedly returns to the contrast between expectation and reality. On paper, the growing season suggested another powerful, solar vintage. Instead, he found wines with what he calls "unique purity and tension", combining moderate alcohol, vibrant acidity and impressive concentration. For Suckling, 2025 is above all "a great vintage for great terroir". He argues that the region's finest vineyards adapted brilliantly to the challenges of the year, producing wines that are both intensely expressive and remarkably balanced. Although he acknowledges inconsistency across the region, he believes the best wines can stand alongside Bordeaux's leading modern vintages. Suckling's highlights: Château Margaux, Mouton Rothschild, Lafite Rothschild, Petrus, Le Pin, Ausone, Angélus, Les Carmes Haut-Brion Read part one and two of James Suckling’s report, along with his full notes and scores on JamesSuckling.com (subscribers only). Georgie Hindle – Decanter Georgie Hindle describes 2025 as both "paradoxical" and "miraculous", two words that neatly capture the mood of many critics tasting the vintage. She notes that almost everything about the growing season pointed towards a rich, powerful vintage. Yet the wines themselves display freshness, poise and balance rather than opulence. The crucial turning point, in her view, was the late-August rain that arrived after months of drought and completely reshaped the vintage's trajectory. Hindle argues that terroir and winemaking decisions were decisive. Producers who adapted extraction techniques and handled the naturally high tannin levels carefully were rewarded with wines of precision and elegance. Others were less successful. While she believes the best wines are exceptional, she is clear that 2025 lacks the broad consistency of 2022 and should be approached selectively. Hindle's highlights: Beauséjour, Cheval Blanc, Haut-Bailly, Haut-Brion, Margaux, Mouton Rothschild, Petrus, Vieux Château Certan Explore Georgie Hindle's coverage on Decanter (subscribers only). Jeb Dunnuck Jeb Dunnuck compares 2025 to a modern-day version of 1961, citing tiny yields, drought conditions and extraordinary concentration. Yet unlike the blockbuster vintages often associated with hot years, Dunnuck finds the wines surprisingly fresh and elegant. He repeatedly highlights the role of cooler nights and late-season rainfall in preserving balance and preventing overripeness. He sees Saint-Émilion as one of the stars of the vintage, while also praising the best wines of Pauillac, Saint-Julien and Pomerol. Like several critics, he believes value-conscious collectors should look closely at Castillon and Fronsac, where some producers delivered outstanding quality relative to price. Dunnuck's highlights: Margaux, Haut-Brion, Léoville Las Cases, Montrose, Le Pin, Ducru-Beaucaillou, Mouton Rothschild, Petrus, Figeac, Beauséjour Explore Jeb Dunnuck's full report, notes and scores on JebDunnuck.com (subscribers only). James Lawther MW – Jancis Robinson James Lawther sees 2025 as one of Bordeaux's most pleasant surprises. He notes that despite being one of the hottest vintages of the last thirty years, the wines possess freshness, moderate alcohol levels and considerable charm. The defining feature for Lawther is the combination of power and approachability — wines that have both concentration and an almost unexpected amiability. Cabernet Sauvignon particularly impressed him, especially in Pauillac and Saint-Estèphe, while Saint-Émilion's limestone-rich soils again proved highly resilient in drought conditions. Pomerol was less straightforward, producing some brilliant wines alongside more uneven results. Lawther is also highly positive about Sauternes, which he considers one of the vintage's major success stories. Lawther's highlights: Palmer, Pavie, Suduiraut, Mouton Rothschild, Cheval Blanc Explore James Lawther MW's full reports, notes and scores on JancisRobinson.com (subscribers only). Read James Lawther MW’s report on the Left Bank, Right Bank and white wine on Inside Bordeaux (subscribers only). Explore Bordeaux 2025

As the Bordeaux 2025 campaign draws to a close, we review the critics' verdicts on one of the decade's most intriguing vintages and the wines that emerged as their standout performers.

Your essential crib-sheet to what the world’s leading wine critics are saying about Bordeaux 2025 en primeur–including Wine Advocate, Vinous and more

Bordeaux 2025 en primeur – what the critics are saying 

Bordeaux 2025: what the critics are saying

I. Distractions In 1987, when I was 18 and a dollar was worth more than twice as much as it is today, I started reading magazines: M, Esquire, GQ. Nearby, in our somewhat cultured Texas town, a new bookstore opened in a cavernous space that had formerly housed the shag-carpeted roller skating rink of our childhood. Through the front windows, which had before been darkly tinted to give the place an alluring den-of-prepubescent-iniquity vibe, now streamed bright, clean light, showcasing a look and layout that would become the interior design gestalt of today’s national-chain, big-box book superstore. The rows upon rows of open, dustless shelving bearing a veritable warehouse of volumes; the ceiling hung with its industrial innards on display; the enfilade of check-out cubicles; and the wall – the great wall – that displayed a preposterous-to-behold assortment of glossies, quarterlies, journals, newsweeklies, fanzines, tabloids, almanacs, and all other flora and fauna of magazines arrayed upon a rack perhaps 50 feet long.  I went in there to look for a book. I liked books, and, one day, I was sure I wanted to write one. But I got distracted and bought a magazine instead – that August’s issue of GQ, which still stands out in my mind as a thing of formative significance. At that time, the zeitgeist was defined by a Walkman-wearing version of the American Renaissance Man – the highly-ambitious, status-obsessed, money-motivated, health-nut known as a Yuppie. No magazine positioned itself more authoritatively in defining this new sociological creature’s lifestyle than GQ, and it did it with whiter teeth, snappier suspenders, better accessories, bigger polka dots and more caffeine in the ink of its display copy.  I remember that issue less for the photos by Richard Avedon or Steven Meisel, the words of Martin Amis or Frederick Exley, than for this: Erzeugerabfüllung. It was one of the longest, strangest strings of letters from the Roman alphabet I had ever seen. Neither did it seem designed to come out of someone’s mouth. But there it was in Alan Richman’s Wine & Spirits column, accompanied by a lovely still-life photograph of his topic: two bottles of Riesling Kabinetts on a white, sun-dappled tablecloth. Richman’s main point – made almost 35 years ago – still holds true: estate-bottled, table-quality German wines remain some of the least expensive, most delicious wines in the world, chiefly because – then as now – the labels, as he wrote, “cannot be understood by anyone who is not a part-time oenophile, linguist and cartographer”. One US dollar in Richman’s pocket, as I have already said, bought what roughly two-dollars-and-fifty-cents does today; what he was on the hunt for was a good dry white in a range that would now cost somewhere between 12 and 30 bucks, and he easily accomplished that by finding a dealer in New York City who carried a good selection of wines from the Mosel and Rheingau. At the time, I didn’t know the meaning or significance of any of this, but it staked a claim in my brain. The only wine I had ever tasted was the one served at our Episcopal church during Eucharist on Sundays. The flavour it had was of a strange, super-concentrated jam that somehow warmed your upper body. Even as a young kid, I liked it. But the adjectives these German bottles were squeezing out of Richman – “citrus-like”, “honeyed”, “tart-sweet” – weren’t close to describing what was in that chalice, even if you believed in transubstantiation. Was it because Richman’s wine was white, and the parish’s was red? Perhaps, but both colours of grape juice bottled by Welch’s tasted pretty much the same to me. No, I sensed there was something – a lot – I had to learn, and, along with the romance and beauty of the labels, and the contextual air of well-bred taste and cultural with-it-ness featured on the other pages, this, I feel sure, was the decisive moment, the true origin point, when I came to believe that among the many extraordinary things that make life worth living, not just words but wine reigns at the top.  I warned you about distractions, didn’t I? Because that would be my excuse for now informing you, as a quite apropos footnote, that, yes, there was something unusual about our church’s Communion wine. It was, as I have confirmed with the church, actually port (Taylor’s Tawny, to be more accurate), cut, according to tradition, with water. There is a good and fascinating reason for this. In 1701, when the War of the Spanish Succession kicked off, France also became an enemy of England, and its wines, as a result, were no longer made available for import. The Anglican Church searched for and found a replacement, the fortified wines of its new ally, Portugal, and port continues to be an acceptable option to pair with the Host.  II. Distillations A satisfying story, not unlike a satisfying life, is one that surprises you with the mystery of its unfolding. A thing pulls in a certain direction long enough to reach the proximity of something else which then turns toward a new destination. I had actually gone into that bookstore, as I said, to look at books. But I came out, even though I didn’t yet know it, with a different compass point. Within a few years, shortly after graduating from college, in 1992, I got hired by The New Yorker, where I stayed for almost nine years. I then met my future wife, who wisely laughed at the thought we might be able to survive in New York City on my meagre salary, so I went to Vogue, and soon after became the founding editor of Men’s Vogue. After 23 issues, and four years, the financial crisis laid an axe to many magazines, including that one. Eventually, I took on the editorship of Town & Country. Then, finally, in 2016, I moved up to Esquire, the magazine, as it happens, that didn’t offer me a job when The New Yorker did, and became that storied magazine’s editor in chief, until – well, you best read about that in The New York Times.  As far as distractions go, magazines were a good one. They made me who I am, gave me a tremendously worldly education, honed my taste, introduced me to all manner of accomplished people, required me to build quite a wardrobe, and paid me pretty well to do all of this, often with a glass of wine not far out of the picture. There was really no other way I would have ever got to taste all the bottles I have (a lot of the big names people whisper about from Burgundy and Bordeaux, Champagne and also Piedmont, Tuscany and Napa). I built a modest cave à vin of my own by buying the Smith Haut Lafittes of the world way before hedge-fund hoi polloi ran up the prices, and by having access to rare offerings, like 12 bottles of Fiorano, the legendary white wine Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi, prince of Venosa, made before ripping out all his vines. I smelled the musty perfume of Margaux in the cellar as I watched the workers rack the wine by candlelight. I lured Jay McInerney away from the Wall Street Journal to become my wine columnist; and I once stood in Bordeaux’s town square, tight on 2002 Pétrus, trying with great focus to commune with the statue of Michel de Montaigne while my French friend, a true oenophile, extolled the majesty of the Big Mac’s special sauce.  As the editor of a magazine, curiosity is your profession, even to the point of distraction. Editors – writers, too – are prone to it. It’s a hazard of the gift, and having a jumble of ideas, if you’re any good, is key to making a magazine of any real intellectual or creative daring. Now as a husband and father of three, working from home and trying to be ‘present’, and a still youngish former editor and occasional micro-influencer trying to stave off the solitude to fathom and plot the next phase of a fruitful future, this skill of mine, the strength of which became even more magnified over two decades, is something of a family project.  The way I most often hear the word ‘distraction’ now, for instance, is when it’s being hurled at me in verb form by my wife or daughters accusing me of being more of a phone-enslaved screen vegetable than they are. (I respectfully disagree.) But it’s a sore point for two reasons. One, what I did as an editor is, in a nutshell, now what a smartphone essentially does. Not very imaginatively, of course, and not with taste or charm or originality, but with a bloody, money-grubbing ruthlessness that stalks every step of our digital peregrinations and doesn’t give a twist if the algorithms that are its brain make us its slave by retrofitting our attention spans for kindergarten.  The smartphone – not the former me or any of my fellow kind still in the media biz – is now the true croupier of culture, dealing out a targeted shuffle of Pavlovian temptations to the point of daily mental exhaustion. And, though this thing is in many ways my personal nemesis, I am, against every fibre of my being, too often its obedient servant. Aiming not to live according to the famous line by T.S. Eliot – “distracted from distraction by distraction” – I recently decided to at least take a serious inventory of my favourite ones, both those of the pre-digital sort (tennis, The Walking Dead, checking the mailbox, my sock collection) and those of the post-digital sort (the any and everything I do because my phone wants me to). Then I caught myself watching tennis on my phone and realised this might be harder than I thought. It’s enough to drive a person to drink, thank god! With that in mind, I like to keep a special something for the occasion around, in this case – what else? – two bottles of Riesling Kabinett, for it had struck me as more than a little weird that I’ve probably tasted fewer than a handful of German wines in my entire life. Part of the reason is that those I had were bad, and, like a lot of other simpletons about this great wine region of the world, I’d come to think of Riesling as a cloying elixir equal parts green Jolly Rancher, apple cider vinegar, and hairspray. This, I knew, was wrong, not true and, in terms of wine equity and inclusion, on the wrong side of history. But, if you happen to live in a place like I do – a bourgie swathe of Connecticut bordering New York City where the shops cater heavily to Cali-Fran-Taly banker’s tastes – it might take you a few stops to find what Richman recommended, an erzeugerabfüllung (estate-bottled) Kabinett (wine made from grapes with a minimum must weight/sugar content) Riesling, and when you do it will probably be coated in a fine sift of years-old dust. I bought a green (Mosel) bottle for US$16 and a brown (Rhine) bottle for US$20, both handsomely labelled. I opened them a few minutes ago and took several investigative swigs. The words bright, invigorating and snappy came to mind. One is indeed sweeter, and, though not my usual jam, it is tamped by a pleasing peachy tartness, and the classic overtone of honey isn’t making my palate feel doused with syrup. The other example is, as Richman said so long ago, a very finely layered creature with mineral clarity and an echo of baked bread, something a gluten-free person like me finds particularly appealing. A rather obvious thought: why haven’t I been buying this instead of throwing a ton of endless money at affordably bad white Burgundy, which is mostly a product aimed at fulfilling a desired outcome, like White Claw hard seltzer? III. Words But don’t let me get distracted, again. A writer really has to be careful about such things. Just think about it. Unlike, say, a painter or musician or actor or photographer, the process of writing requires zero physical exertion, no chance to score an endorphin release while sitting staring anxiously at a blank page. Of the many things in life that vie against the counter intuitive impulse to be glued to a desk, Cyril Connolly, in Enemies of Promise, his classic study of the things that distracted him (and others) from becoming a great writer, names the temptations but does not say much about why they’re so deeply tempting to someone who would otherwise be sitting alone in an empty room. Praise, money, fame, social prominence, affairs and journalism are the most common boltholes, according to Connolly, who, as a famously late sleeper that married three times, might have also added the bliss of unconsciousness and excessive alimony. In 1938, the year the book was published, he would never have imagined how hard the task might get without a cigarette. Smoking is a death wish, I know, but when you want to off yourself for still having a hundred pages to go, being able to snap open a nice lighter, flick some ash, stub a butt and inhale some lungfuls of focus-enhancing nicotine must have been kind of helpful. Connolly also doesn’t have much to say about drink except that artists who drink to excess do so “out of the consciousness of wasted ability”. According to that, the 20th century’s most famous literary alcoholics – Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Styron, Elizabeth Bishop, James Joyce, Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner – might have left behind even greater treasures than they did. Because Ernest Hemingway did almost everything with more gusto than any of his peers, including running up his bar tab, as a drinker he belongs in his own sentence. He is the novelist who most romanced a good drink or nice bottle of wine as one of life’s great pleasures. Who didn’t want to have a vermouth with Jake when reading The Sun Also Rises? (Don’t, it’s gross, at least if you order it at one of those kiosks in Montmartre where the bottles are hung upside down with spring-loaded dispensers.) Or, track down a bottle of Valdepeñas, Hemingway’s favourite variety of Spanish wine. Or, get a drink at the bar named after him at the Ritz, in Paris, and then go somewhere on the Left Bank to order “a dozen portugaises and a half-carafe of the dry white wine”.  In the early work, he is not boastful about drinking so much as he is the possessor of an unusual appetite for a good buzz. He is also, like Connolly, aware of the need to keep writing separate from drinking, and drinking within his control. It is hard to read the first paragraph of A Moveable Feast, in which he describes an “evilly run café where the drunkards of the quarter crowded together and I kept away from it because of the smell of dirty bodies and the sour smell of drunkenness”, except as a kind of terrifying admonition to himself. It is tragic that he didn’t heed his own advice. Late in his life, Hemingway became fond of rum daiquiris at the Floridita, his favourite bar in Havana, which might explain his taste for a prose style that soon became too often cloying self-parody. In one of the most extraordinary drinking sessions ever committed to words, in the roman à clef Across the River and Into the Trees, a 50-year-old Hemingway, who was smitten with a teenage Italian countess from Venice, fictionalises his infatuation with a last muse. In one stretch (that covers an evening-to-dawn crawl from Harry’s Bar, the grill at the Gritti Palace, a gondola and a hotel room), one half or another of the couple imbibes: one scotch whisky and soda; six Montgomery Martinis (15 parts gin; 1 part vermouth), two of which are described in size as ‘super’; a bottle of Capri Bianco; two bottles of Valpolicella; two bottles of Roederer Brut ’42; and two bottles of Perrier-Jouët. That is, I suppose, one extreme, and, clearly, not one to be tried at home.  The other might have been espoused by Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great critic and lexicographer. As a young man, he’d drained “many a bottle of wine” but loved port especially. (Perhaps Johnson, a devout Anglican who was born in 1709, in the midst of England’s 14-year war with Spain, also first encountered port as a boy at the Communion altar.) He describes himself to friend and biographer James Boswell as having been “apt to go to excess in it”, adding that, “therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it”.  Boswell, who worried about his own dependence on alcohol, even keeping a journal of his intake in an attempt to enforce moderation, argued for a third way, which some of the Romantics later adopted. Wine, he claimed, “produces truth; in vino veritas”. Hoping to persuade Johnson of his point, Boswell once convinced the critic to come down off the wagon for just one glass of claret, so Johnson “might judge, not from recollection, which might be dim, but from immediate sensation”. Boswell reports what happened after the glass was emptied: “Johnson shook his head, and said, ‘Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men,’” adding, “‘A man would be drowned by it before it made him drunk.’”  That actually reminds me of something I think I forgot to mention about Riesling Kabinetts – they’re also highly admired for their low percentage of alcohol. On that note, I think I’ll have another glass.  This article was originally published in FONDATA, Issue Two.

Jay Fielden, former editor of Men’s Vogue, Town & Country and Esquire, recalls how a magazine column on wine, read in a Texas bookstore, shifted his ambitions beyond journalism and set him on the path to becoming a writer of books.

Former Esquire editor-in-chief Jay Fielden reflects on magazines, writing, Riesling Kabinett and the distractions that shaped a life in words and wine.

Jay Fielden on Wine, Words and Distraction

How one became another  

Over his 16-year career as CEO of the estate, Thomas Duroux has come to know Château Palmer’s identity, its nuances and its ability to evolve better than anyone. He has an intimate knowledge of the last 70 vintages of Château Palmer and admits he has already tasted the 2010 vintage more than 100 times during its evolution over the last 10 years. But the decision to release it 10 years on was not always the plan. Duroux says, “2010 is really one of the most extraordinary vintages, up there with the 2005, 2009, 2015 and 2016 but for me the 2010 is probably the most serious, deepest wine of all of them and I believed would require a long time to open up.”  But, on the final day of the 2019 vintage, as is tradition, Thomas holds a big party with the harvesters and always opens a special bottle of Château Palmer to share with them. “I don’t know why I decided on 2010 that day, but it turned out to be a flash of inspiration. The wine had changed so much from just a few months before, incredibly open, still deep. How wrong I was that it would remain closed for longer.”  The ageing potential of Bordeaux   Bordeaux’s capacity to age is extraordinary. No wine seems to retain freshness and structure for so long, with top vintages easily reaching their 50th anniversary and some twice as long. But with Bordeaux leading the way on scientific development and research within winemaking and a better understanding of its molecular make-up, the style of modern-era Bordeaux has certainly changed. This change in style has many questioning whether with these new techniques, the wines might open up earlier, but struggle to go the distance.  Despite 2010 Palmer entering its drinking window at just 10 years, Duroux has no concern over its longevity. “In the past, a wine with this depth would take time to open. I remember tasting the 1928 with Claude Chardon, the former manager of Château Palmer, and he said this wine took 30 years even to show up! The vintage was undoubtedly exceptional, producing massively concentrated berries, but the grapes were possibly not all picked at the right time. In those days the harvest started and every parcel was picked in one go.”  Today each parcel is monitored separately and – depending on the conditions – the harvest could last up to a month, with breaks in between as they wait for the perfect maturity, explains Duroux. Back then all the berries would have been extracted the same regardless of the vintage conditions, regardless of the different characteristics of the varying parcels. This laissez-faire attitude meant the wines would often shut down for many years. Today, with better understanding and a more precise approach, the wines’ extraction time varies, “Our pump-overs could be two hours or could be 10 minutes, with every tank assessed individually. Today the wines don’t have to go through that shock process that they used to.”   But Duroux believes the ingredients for long-ageing are still there, just without the extended dumb phase often found in the top vintages of the past. Duroux constantly monitors the development of Château Palmer and, as he has witnessed Palmer age, its drinking window isn’t simply a linear timeframe but goes through several, what he calls “drinking plateaus”.  Even in not-so-great vintages, the ageing of the wine is a fascinating exploration. “1957 as a vintage does not have a great reputation, but recently I tasted it and it was spectacular and totally different from three years ago. Yes, there will be disappointments – ’72 and ’73 will never reach a new plateau in their drinking life, but typically as Palmer ages, it will open and close with distinct drinking plateaus in between.”  The Palmer identity  With so much experience tasting Palmer through the ages, I’m fascinated to understand what it is Duroux believes defines Palmer in the glass. “There are many easy words,” he says. “Complexity, depth etc – but perhaps the two most distinctive elements are its aromatics and its distinct texture on the palate within a Margaux context. First and foremost Palmer has a very strong Margaux character defined by the softness and elegance of tannins. But in Palmer specifically, it is both fine but also textural – a velvet-like texture giving the wine more structure than is necessarily typical of Margaux. I believe it’s due to the unusual distinction at Palmer, that some of our best grapes come from are old Merlot vines grown on gravel – typically a soil kept for Cabernet Sauvignon.”  For Duroux the old Cabernet vines provide the precision, but it is these Merlot grapes that provide the distinct textural qualities of Palmer. Secondly, Palmer’s aromatic complexity remains a reliable trait. “The aromatic complexity will always come out of the glass when the vintage enters its drinking window,” testifies Duroux. Many believe they can recognise Palmer by its smell alone.   Thomas Duroux’s influence   In recent years Château Palmer has undoubtedly become one of Margaux’s most consistent producers and one of Bordeaux’s most collected wines. After 16 years at the helm, Duroux contemplates his proudest achievements at Palmer. “The first necessary change, which I believe has had a great impact at Palmer, was to not see Palmer’s vineyards as a whole – but to see Palmer as made up of separate and diverse vineyards. That we should act differently from one plot to another and then to reflect that diversity in the vineyard back in the winery. Every plot is now managed independently, treated independently, picked independently and vinified independently.”  Once the plots had been differentiated, Duroux’s second change was to have a global vision of what “our farm should be”. Most importantly, to bring life back to the soils. By working the vineyards biodynamically, Duroux says, “We have seen much more diversity, complexity and life in our soils, our cover crops, our trees and animals. We have brought more autonomy to the estate, each year relying less and less on bringing stuff from outside.” Today the estate fertilizes the vineyards from manure from their own cattle, “This is not a revolution but returning to how we farmed 100 years ago.”  These changes have not come without risk. As a biodynamic producer, Duroux explains, “We have fewer weapons to fight disease, but we have the feeling that with time we will limit the risk, we will not see mildew as a disease but as an imbalance in the vineyard.” The 2018 vintage was hugely difficult for Palmer, who lost two-thirds of their crop to mildew. The 2020 vintage brought similar mildew pressures but Duroux says they were nowhere near as affected, “We have learnt so much about our vineyard since 2018.”  Bordeaux’s developing market  Perhaps Duroux’s decision to re-release Palmer 10 years on will be his third big influence at Château Palmer. This decision will no doubt be carefully monitored by other châteaux, who like Duroux are aware the Bordeaux market is developing.  “In 2010 we recognised the market was changing. Releasing the wine en primeur, unfinished, receiving the wine two years later and storing the wine for 10 years before approaching it has been the norm for many years – but for many new customers, this was not how they liked to buy wine. Many people, for one, don’t have the storage capacity and also want to purchase wines ready to drink. From that point we began to hold back a little, rather than releasing all the wine en primeur. By 2014, we were holding back around 50% of the production and (apart from 2018 – where our production was down by two thirds), we have continued to do this, to this day.”   But these late releases are not set to replace en primeur at Palmer. “I still have a strong belief in the en primeur system,” says Duroux. “It is not about doing one or the other. Customers who invest in a product early should be rewarded for that price-wise. But at the same time we also need to cater for our other customers who want wines ready to drink.” For the 2010 at least, Duroux confirms this will be the last time you will be able to buy the vintage direct from the château.  The wine world watches as Duroux’s next step could not only have a huge impact on the future of Château Palmer, but could also influence how all Bordeaux is sold going forward.   Browse all current Ch. Palmer listings or read more Editorial

We caught up with Thomas Duroux the day before he was due to start harvesting the 2020 vintage to find out the reasoning behind the late 2010 release, what is set to become an annual event for the château.  

Thomas Duroux of Chateau Palmer on the reasoning behind the late 2010 wine vintage release, what is set to become an annual event for the Bordeaux château.  

Château Palmer interview

Thomas Duroux: Château Palmer interview

L'annata 2024 a Bordeaux ha portato piogge record, ma l'annata è molto più di questo. Mentre vengono lanciati i primi vini, Sophie Thorpe racconta un anno complicato e i vini che ha prodotto.

Explore the 2024 vintage in Bordeaux and the wines it produced – looking at the growing season and style of the wines as they’re released en primeur

Bordeaux 2024 wines en primeur – vintage overview

Bordeaux 2024: panoramica dell'annata

Ispirata da un russo, prima prodotta da un ungherese, poi da un francese e poi da un tedesco, la tradizione enologica di Masseto è stata decisamente internazionale, almeno fino ad ora. Da gennaio 2024, la principale azienda produttrice di Super Tuscan e gemella di Ornellaia ha avuto il suo primo autoctono al timone: Marco Balsimelli, nato ad Arezzo, non lontano da Siena, ha preso le redini dal direttore di produzione di lunga data Axel Heinz. 
Balsimelli vanta un illustre pedigree, avendo vissuto a lungo a Bordeaux, lavorando presso Gruaud Larose e, dal 2010, al fianco del celebre Eric Boissenot come enologo consulente per molte delle principali aziende della regione, ma l'opportunità di lavorare a Ornellaia e Masseto – nomi iconici della sua terra d'origine toscana – era un'opportunità che non poteva rifiutare. 
Fu André Tchelistcheff (enologo di origine russa di Napa Valley) a suggerire per primo a Lodovico Antinori che una particolare collina della tenuta di Ornellaia sarebbe stata perfetta per il Merlot. Tchelistcheff, consulente di Antinori, riconobbe il potenziale di quel terreno di argilla blu, lo stesso che è sinonimo di Pétrus. All'epoca, negli anni '80, il Merlot era scarsamente piantato in Toscana e rimaneva una quantità sconosciuta nella regione, con solo Castello di Ama, con sede più nell'entroterra del Chianti Classico, che possedeva alcune viti (oggi utilizzate per il suo vino di punta, L'Apparita). Ciononostante, il team di Ornellaia si arrischiò e piantò la maggior parte dei sette ettari di terreno argilloso nel 1984 (ulteriori impianti furono effettuati nel 1995). 
La ​​prima annata di Merlot da questa tenuta fu prodotta nel 1987: nacque il Masseto. Il nome deriva da "masso", che in italiano significa roccia, per i grandi ammassi di argilla simili a massi che punteggiano la superficie del vigneto. Non ci volle molto perché il vino ottenesse riconoscimenti internazionali, con Wine Spectator che assegnò all'annata 2001 100 punti, e il suo posto nella storia del vino si consolidò. Sebbene Tchelistcheff sia stato consulente fino al 1989, sostituito da Michel Rolland dal 1991, l'ungherese Tibor Gál fu il primo enologo della proprietà. A Gál successe Thomas Duroux (ora di Ch. Palmer), che nel 2005 passò il testimone ad Axel Heinz, l'enologo di origine tedesca che aveva preceduto Balsimelli. Anche la proprietà è cambiata di mano nel corso degli anni: la famiglia Mondavi ne ha acquisito una quota nel 1999, prima di acquistarla direttamente da Lodovico Antinori e venderla alla famiglia Frescobaldi, che ha acquisito la piena proprietà di Ornellaia e Masseto dal 2005. 
Molto potrebbe essere cambiato, ma il terroir è rimasto immutato. "È un sito davvero speciale", mi dice Balsimelli. L'argilla, fondamentale, domina lo strato superficiale del terreno, che è profondo solo circa un metro. Quando piove, l'argilla si gonfia, rendendo quasi impossibile lo sviluppo delle radici delle viti. Gli alti livelli di sodio nei terreni non fanno che accentuare il problema. "Per le radici, è una battaglia quotidiana", dice. È questa lotta, secondo lui, che si può assaporare nei frutti concentrati e ad alta acidità di questo sito. 
Anche il clima è fondamentale, trovandosi a soli 10 chilometri dal Mar Tirreno. Le fresche brezze marine fanno sì che la temperatura sia di circa 5 °C inferiore a quella della Toscana centrale, con un calo di circa 15 °C tra il giorno e la notte. Combinando questo con la luce riflessa dal mare, si ottiene una lunga stagione vegetativa, che preserva aromi e acidità, ma favorisce la maturazione fenolica: vini che combinano profumo e potenza. Circondato dai boschi, c'è un motivo per cui Masseto è gestito come un progetto completamente separato da Ornellaia, con una propria identità unica, anche se ha sempre condiviso un enologo (e, fino al 2019, una cantina) con la tenuta gemella. 
Per Balsimelli, il progetto ha rappresentato una nuova sfida. L'abbandono del ruolo di consulente – non più un semplice consulente prima di passare al progetto successivo, ma un semplice sostenitore di ogni decisione – aggiunge un nuovo peso di responsabilità. "Passo molto tempo a riflettere sulle questioni tecniche e sulle conseguenze", mi dice. Poiché la maggior parte del suo lavoro con Boissenot si era concentrato sulla Rive Gauche di Bordeaux, concentrandosi su blend a base di Cabernet provenienti da tenute più grandi, lavorare con una piccola proprietà, concentrandosi su un solo vitigno e diverse sottoparticelle, è un puzzle completamente diverso. L'approccio, per lui, è molto più borgognone, incentrato sull'espressione della purezza del sito e della sua argilla blu. "Bisogna essere perfetti con un solo tipo di terreno e un solo vitigno", spiega. La ricerca della perfezione è iniziata molto tempo fa a Masseto e oggi le viti hanno un'età media compresa tra i 20 e i 30 anni. Sono anche passati dal cordone speronato all'alberello, una tecnica sperimentata per la prima volta nel 2008, che hanno scoperto aiutare a mitigare gli effetti del riscaldamento globale (reagendo meglio in condizioni di siccità e proteggendo i frutti dal calore del sole). Coltivato biologicamente dal 2012, è stata posta particolare attenzione anche alla promozione della biodiversità in tutto il sito, anche utilizzando colture di copertura per ridurre la compattazione del suolo, aumentare l'organicità c e trattenere l'umidità nei terreni. 
La prima annata di Balsimelli è stata la 2024, che non uscirà prima del 2027. Ma è chiaramente entusiasta del sito, così come di come può modificare e migliorare un vino già lodato dalla critica e dai consumatori. "Quando assaggi vecchie annate di Masseto, puoi percepire l'eredità, assaporare il terroir", afferma – ed è esattamente ciò che vuole fare in futuro, incanalando la filosofia di Boissenot: comprendere un pezzo di terra e trovare la soluzione migliore per esprimerlo nel bicchiere. Per lui, quella soluzione consisterà nell'accentuare l'eleganza del vino. 
Fa notare come ci fosse – in tutto il mondo del vino – una tendenza verso basse rese e alti livelli di maturità nei primi anni 2000, ma le sue annate preferite sono quelle che hanno visto un maggiore equilibrio. Il 2006, ad esempio, è il suo preferito al momento: un anno con più precipitazioni, più vigore e, a suo dire, più energia. È un'annata che, a suo avviso, è "la chiave per il futuro". 
Il sito è in grado di maturare rapidamente e Balsimelli intende concentrarsi sulla freschezza, magari anticipando un po' la vendemmia, riducendo l'estrazione e abbassando le temperature di macerazione. Il 2022 è l'annata che uscirà a settembre: un vino che, a detta di Balsimelli, dimostra quanto sia buono il sito, performando anche in condizioni difficili come la calda stagione vegetativa del 2022. È, a suo dire, "la magia di Masseto". Magia che sia, ma Balsimelli è determinato a valorizzare ulteriormente questa tenuta speciale. 
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Spesso considerato il Petrus d'Italia, il Masseto è un vino senza eguali. In vista della nuova uscita, abbiamo incontrato Marco Balsimelli, oggi alla guida, per parlare di questo sito speciale e di cosa riserva il futuro al Super Tuscan.

Talking to the Super Tuscan’s new Production Director Marco Balsimelli about Masseto, Ornellaia sibling estate and its unique Merlot wines

The magic of Masseto - Marco Balsimelli

La magia del Masseto

William Kelley + Yohan Castaing – Wine Advocate Ancora una volta, la copertura del Bordeaux en primeur di Wine Advocate è condivisa da William Kelley e Yohan Castaing, con entrambi che forniscono i punteggi, ma con Kelley che scrive il rapporto della pubblicazione. È significativo che il punteggio potenziale più alto assegnato a qualsiasi 2024 sia 94-96, con oltre la metà dei vini al di sotto di 90: nelle parole di Kelley, l’annata – che “ha messo alla prova i limiti dei viticoltori” – “ha prodotto pochi vini convincenti”. Sebbene ci siano alcuni “successi notevoli”, la coppia ritiene che questa sia “chiaramente la vendemmia più debole di Bordeaux dell’ultimo decennio”, con molti vini “diluiti, erbacei e aspri”. 
 L’annata non è omogenea, e Kelley lo attribuisce semplicemente ai livelli di maturità. Sostiene che quei produttori che “hanno osato aspettare” per vendemmiare sono stati ricompensati. È chiaro, tuttavia, che nessuna varietà o sotto-regione in particolare sia andata particolarmente meglio nel 2024, con l’annata giudicabile solo a livello di produttore. I migliori 2024 sono, per Kelley, “pesi medi intensamente saporiti con buona struttura ed energia, che mostrano acidità integrata e tannino maturo”. Sebbene i peggiori abbiano un’acidità che può essere “stridente”, con “tannini astringenti e un marcato carattere di pirazine”, alcuni – in gran parte da siti a maturazione precoce vendemmiati tardi – “possiedono una densità e un’ampiezza di centro bocca che trascendono l’annata”. La vendemmia è, tuttavia, “un ritorno al passato”, più vicina a quelle degli anni ’90 che a qualcosa di più recente. L’élevage dovrebbe aiutare a dare maggiore pienezza ad alcuni vini, ma Kelley è cauto riguardo alla fragilità dei vini – e prevede che “amplificherà solo il divario tra i migliori e il resto”. 
 I punti salienti di Kelley: Cheval Blanc, La Conseillante, Pontet-Canet, Les Carmes Haut-Brion 
 Esplora il rapporto completo di Kelley, le note e i punteggi su Wine Advocate (solo abbonati) Jane Anson – Inside Bordeaux Per Anson, il 2024 ha superato le sue aspettative: sebbene, riconosce, ci siano “molte bottiglie deludenti”, l’annata è migliore del 2013 e – nei casi migliori – del 2021. Ritiene che ci siano “più successi complessivi sulla Rive Droite che sulla Sinistra, semplicemente perché è molto difficile mascherare un Cabernet non maturo”, e in generale i secondi vini non sono consigliati quest’anno, con un notevole salto di qualità. Nei migliori rossi, l’acidità dona “succo, muscoli e salinità”, con il Médoc che offre Claret lineari, “floreali, fragranti, sfumati”. Evidenzia in particolare la qualità di Saint-Julien e osserva che ci sono “molti vini eccellenti” a Pauillac, mentre Saint-Estèphe è più variegata. 
 La Rive Droite ha prodotto il suo vino dell’annata – Eglise-Clinet – ma osserva come Pomerol sia variegata, con alcuni vini di successo che sono “favolosi, elevati, aromatici, di grande qualità” e altri meno riusciti, generalmente con i migliori provenienti dall’altopiano interno. A Saint-Émilion, osserva come l’austerità naturale del calcare abbia dovuto essere gestita – ma “ci sono molti vini gustosi, di successo seppur slanciati” nell’appellazione. 
 Sottolinea la qualità dei bianchi nell’annata, sia dolci che secchi, con “maggiore coerenza e molti vini eccellenti”. I bianchi secchi offrono grandi aromaticità, ma non hanno la densità dei migliori vini, da cui il suo tetto ai punteggi. Descrive i vini dolci come “meno lussureggianti dei 2022 e 2023”, ma con “molti vini equilibrati, deliziosi e pieni di piacere”. 
 I punti salienti di Anson: Eglise-Clinet, La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, Coutet, Pavillon Blanc, Les Champs Libres, Margaux, Léoville Poyferré, Brane-Cantenac, Ausone, Laroque, Couvent des Jacobins, La Prade, Vieux Château Saint André, L’If, Pagodes de Cos Blanc, Rieussec, Suduiraut, Clos Albus, Les Hauts de Smith Blanc, Les Charmes-Godard 
 Esplora il rapporto completo di Anson, le note e i punteggi su Inside Bordeaux (solo abbonati) Antonio Galloni – Vinous Galloni è il primo dei due autori di Vinous a pubblicare il proprio rapporto sul Bordeaux 2024. Sebbene ammetta che i vini siano “ovunque in termini di qualità e stile”, ritiene anche che “i migliori vini abbiano molto da offrire”. Dopotutto, “il meteo non è più l’elemento critico nel determinare la qualità dei vini e quindi di un’annata”. 
 Sottolinea quanto sarà fondamentale l’élevage nello sviluppo dei vini, aspettandosi “un livello molto alto di variabilità nei vini finiti” – ritenendo, come indica il titolo del suo rapporto, che molti dei vini stiano su un “filo del rasoio”. Galloni descrive i 2024 come aromatici, tendenti al frutto rosso, con i migliori che “trasudano equilibrio” – sebbene alcuni possano essere “eccessivamente leggeri”, rendendo l’annata “frustrantemente irregolare”. Tuttavia, è “ben lontana dal totale disastro” suggerito. Per lui è un anno in cui la Rive Gauche e il Cabernet sono fioriti, evidenziando i vini di Saint-Estèphe e Pauillac, e trovando quelli di Pomerol e Pessac-Léognan i più variabili. 
 Sottolinea la qualità dei bianchi secchi nel 2024, che sono “tra i migliori” dell’annata e possono essere “davvero eccezionali”, offrendo al contempo un valore relativo. Quanto ai dolci, sono – per lui – molto buoni, ma non straordinari, non avendo il “fattore brivido degli anni davvero migliori”. 
 I punti salienti di Galloni: Beychevelle, Clos Puy Arnaud, Cos d’Estournel, Jean Faure, Larcis-Ducasse, Lascombes, La Conseillante, Rauzan-Ségla 
 Esplora il rapporto completo di Antonio Galloni, le note e i punteggi su Vinous (solo abbonati) Neal Martin – Vinous Sulla scia del rapporto di Galloni (sopra), Neal Martin copre la stagione di crescita definita dalla sua quantità “biblica” di pioggia. Ritiene che il 2024 sia “una buona annata con limitazioni”, osservando che i vini sono incoerenti e che la “stagione malefica… amplia il divario tra chi ha e chi non ha”. Sottolinea che a trionfare non è stato il miglior terroir, ma “chi aveva le tasche più profonde e chi ha preso le decisioni giuste nei momenti giusti” – e anche allora, è “una stagione di crescita impossibile da trascendere”. 
 Come altri, nota quanto diversa sarebbe stata l’annata solo un paio di decenni fa, osservando che è “inequivocabilmente di gran lunga superiore” a annate come 1984, 1992 o 2013. Sebbene non sia coerente, ammette che ci sono vini che “sfiorano il cielo”, e i migliori sono “belli” – offrendo aromi “delineati e focalizzati”, vini equilibrati in cui una “spina dorsale di acidità dona portamento”, con “ampia freschezza e sapidità”. Sono, scrive, “vini ideali da ristorante che offriranno un piacere di beva facile mentre aspettate che i 2019 o i 2022 maturino”. 
 Martin evidenzia la qualità dei bianchi secchi – con condizioni fresche che producono “Sauvignon Blanc/Sémillon avvincenti e tesi che spesso superano le loro controparti rosse”. Per quanto riguarda Sauternes, riferisce che sono molto buoni, ma non classicamente opulenti, piuttosto “pieni di freschezza e purezza”. 
 I punti salienti di Neal Martin: Vieux Château Certan, Lafleur, Eglise-Clinet, Lafite Rothschild, Margaux, Montrose, La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, Domaine de Chevalier Blanc, Malartic-Lagravière Blanc, Le Blanc de Lafite, Les Champs Libres, Doisy-Daëne, Coutet, Guiraud, Suduiraut 
 Esplora il rapporto completo di Neal Martin, le note e i punteggi su Vinous (solo abbonati) James Suckling Per James Suckling, degustare il 2024 è stata un’esperienza nostalgica – che gli ha ricordato le “versioni moderne di anni come il 1985 o il 1995”. Sebbene lo consideri tra le annate più eterogenee che abbia assaggiato, descrive i migliori 2024 come dotati di “tannini fini e un carattere croccante e brillante”, “lineari e freschi” con “acidità vivida”, osservando che saranno approcciabili presto. I migliori, ritiene, provengono da siti a maturazione precoce con le grandi squadre necessarie per affrontare l’annata. Ritiene che i bianchi secchi, nel frattempo, siano da molto buoni a eccellenti – con Haut-Brion Blanc e Pavillon Blanc tra i suoi vini con i punteggi più alti. 
 I punti salienti di Suckling: Haut-Brion Blanc, Evangile, Lafleur, Latour, Pavillon Blanc, Angélus, Ausone, Cos d’Estournel, Haut-Brion, Eglise-Clinet, La Mission Haut-Brion, Léoville Las Cases, Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Margaux, Mouton Rothschild, Pétrus, Smith-Haut-Lafitte Blanc, Vieux Château Certan 
 Esplora il rapporto completo di James Suckling, le note e i punteggi sul suo sito (solo abbonati) Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW – The Wine Independent Il titolo per Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW è che i migliori rossi del 2024 sono “di corpo più leggero, dalla trama morbida, rinfrescanti e profumati”, mentre ci sono “molti spettacolari vini bianchi secchi e piccole quantità di eccellenti vini da Sauternes”. Osserva come i vini abbiano generalmente tannini maturi, ma che la maturità del gusto sia stata più impegnativa – e ha portato a “molti rossi buoni, deliziosi, bevibili, se non sbalorditivi”, sebbene “molti non abbiano gli strati di sapore o l’intensità di un vero grande vino”. 
 Una cosa emerge chiaramente per lei: “I livelli di qualità sono ovunque.” Come noi, ritiene che la Rive Droite sia più coerente e osserva che “molti vini eleganti, brillanti, rinfrescanti, dalla trama morbida e profumati” provengono da Saint-Émilion e Pomerol. Sulla Rive Gauche, trova che la qualità diminuisca allontanandosi dalle terrazze ghiaiose e dai terroir più fini, sebbene molte Classed Growths abbiano prodotto vini “degni del loro status” anche se in uno stile più leggero rispetto agli anni recenti. 
 I bianchi secchi sono, per lei, “il lato positivo” dell’annata – notandone la coerenza e la qualità. Trova che molti abbiano “un senso di armonia senza sforzo”, con aromaticità e acidità preservate dalle condizioni più fresche. Evidenzia numerosi bianchi secchi da tenere d’occhio – elencati sotto. La qualità a Sauternes e Barsac è “eccellente”, scrive, ritenendo che l’ossatura acida inietti “vivacità” nei vini, portando a un maggiore equilibrio rispetto alle annate più calde. I migliori hanno “grande intensità di sapore, molta complessità instillata dalla botrite e ossature scattanti” – e sono vini che vale davvero la pena cercare. 
 I punti salienti di Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW: Figeac, Haut-Brion Blanc, Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc, La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, Pavillon Blanc, Eglise-Clinet, Montrose, Trotte Vieille, Pape Clément Blanc, Domaine de Chevalier Blanc, Valandraud Blanc, D’Aiguilhe Blanc, Larrivet Haut-Brion Blanc, Suduiraut Pur Sémillon, Les Champs Libres, Cos d’Estournel Blanc, Lespault-Martillac Blanc 
Esplora il rapporto completo di Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW su The Wine Independent (solo abbonati) Georgie Hindle – Decanter La copertura di Decanter viene rilasciata gradualmente e finora include un rapporto sulla stagione di crescita, oltre a una prima occhiata agli stili prodotti dall’annata. Georgie Hindle afferma che è più vicina nello stile al 2021, guardando alle annate recenti, tuttavia evidenzia l’estate più secca e calda che la differenzia. Sottolinea che l’annata non è uniforme e che i vini sono generalmente plasmati da una “freschezza tesa e minerale” piuttosto che da profondità di frutto o opulenza. Dice che i migliori “offrono lampi di precisione aromatica, eleganza e chiarezza rinfrescante con struttura e lunghezza” – “raggiungono un equilibrio tra frutto, acidità e tannini”. Molti sono deboli o esili e – come noi e altri abbiamo sottolineato – non si può generalizzare quest’anno – e non dovrebbe essere un’annata da scartare, esorta. 
 Non ritiene che i bianchi secchi se la siano cavata meglio dei rossi, con risultati similmente misti – ma alcuni vini riusciti che sono aromatici e accattivanti. Per quanto riguarda i vini dolci della regione, offrono “una facilità di beva”, ma non tutti hanno “la densità e la consistenza delle annate più forti”. 
 Esplora la copertura di Georgie Hindle su Decanter (solo abbonati) Colin Hay – The Drinks Business Questo è il primo anno in cui includiamo The Drinks Business. Una pubblicazione di settore, ha ampliato la sua copertura di Bordeaux e relativamente di recente ha iniziato a dare punteggi ai vini, il tutto affrontato da Colin Hay. Nonostante la stagione di crescita impegnativa, sostiene che “coloro che hanno avuto sia le risorse – umane e finanziarie – e soprattutto l’acume per rispondere alle sue prove e tribolazioni hanno trionfato”. Sebbene nella fascia più bassa dell’albero della qualità trovi i vini deludenti e l’annata lontana dall’essere uniforme, scrive che “in cima alla piramide” ci sono “vini che trascendono le sfide dell’annata” – “pienamente maturi, eleganti, raffinati, altamente aromatici, con tannini morbidi, delicati e finemente grigliati e una succulenza, chiarezza e brillantezza davvero rare”. Li trova “notevoli” – anche senza il contesto dell’anno. Sebbene non raggiungano le vette del 2019, 2020 o 2022, ritiene che i vini possano essere favorevolmente paragonati ad altre annate recenti – anzi, ritiene che i migliori stiano sopra i vini del 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 e 2018. 
 Scrive che sebbene i vini siano “probabilmente altamente accessibili in gioventù”, “hanno comunque un potenziale di invecchiamento piuttosto significativo”. È un altro a ritenere che l’annata sia leggermente più forte sulla Rive Droite, e a entusiasmarsi per i bianchi (“unici e spettacolari”, “un indubbio punto culminante dell’annata” che mette allo stesso livello del 2017 e 2021) e per i vini dolci (sebbene ammetta che siano meno coerenti). Sebbene vi siano eccezioni, Pauillac è “la meno lusingata dall’annata”, e può risultare austera. Ha riscontrato che le tenute di Saint-Estèphe sembrano aver abbracciato l’annata, trovando diversi punti salienti – tra cui Montrose, “un vino di sbalorditiva profondità e originalità, e al contempo di una bellezza eterea e aerea e di profonda complessità aromatica”. A Saint-Julien, trova “una rassicurante dolcezza del frutto e una cremosità nocciolata”, affrontando meglio l’annata, come ha fatto anche Margaux, offrendo molta “grazia e tipicità”. Trova i rossi di Pessac-Léognan e Graves particolarmente eterogenei, sebbene ritenga che le persone ricorderanno l’annata per i suoi bianchi. 
 Sulla Rive Droite, Hay riscontra che i migliori di Pomerol “non indicano nulla delle difficoltà della stagione di crescita”, con proporzioni elevate di Cabernet che forniscono “un’ulteriore spinta aromatica e floralità”. A Saint-Émilion, scopre anche molti vini che trascendono l’annata, “molto più omogenei” del previsto, soprattutto rispetto alla Rive Gauche, e molti di essi rientrano nel suo sistema di classificazione – suggerendo che sia “una garanzia di qualità impressionante per il consumatore”. 
 I punti salienti di Colin Hay: Mouton Rothschild, Montrose, Cos d’Estournel, Gruaud Larose, Palmer, Lafleur, Le Pin, Petrus, Eglise-Clinet, Trotanoy, Bélair-Monange, Rocheyron, Cheval Blanc, Figeac, Angélus, Beauséjour, Larcis-Ducasse, Pavie, Les Carmes Haut-Brion, La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc, L’Extravagant de Doisy-Daëne, Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Suduiraut
 Esplora il rapporto completo di Colin Hay, le note e i punteggi su The Drinks Business Jeb Dunnuck Sebbene il 2024 sia stata un’annata difficile, ha prodotto “vini affascinanti, di medio corpo, pronti, moderatamente concentrati”, scrive Dunnuck. Paragona la qualità al 2021 ma con maggiore “apertura e morbidezza”, ritenendo che non sia né un anno da Rive Gauche né da Rive Droite, ma uno che deve essere analizzato per tenuta. Ritiene tuttavia che Pessac sia “una gemma splendente dell’annata”. I vini puntano “all’approcciabilità più che alla densità”, e i vini a base Merlot della Rive Droite mostrano bene il loro terroir, mentre Pomerol ha uno stile più scuro. Sulla Rive Gauche, similmente, non sono vini esplosivi, ma – dice – “piaceranno certamente a chi rimpiange i tempi andati degli anni ’80 e ’90”, e “offriranno indiscutibilmente ampia bevibilità e longevità”. Suggerisce che possano seguire una traiettoria simile ai 2001, vini “che bevono magnificamente oggi” – e alcuni “hanno un equilibrio e un’armonia che potrebbero sorprendere”. 
 Per quanto riguarda i bianchi, sebbene ci siano “alcuni bianchi brillanti”, non è universale – un’annata buona piuttosto che grande. E questo è vero per l’annata in generale, a suo avviso: consiglia acquisti selettivi, ma ci sono buoni vini degni di attenzione. 
 I punti salienti di Jeb Dunnuck: Figeac, Haut-Brion, La Conseillante, Lafaurie Peyraguey Coeur de Terroir, Pavillon Blanc, Mouton Rothschild, Pape Clément, Suduiraut, Suduiraut Pur Semillon, Valandraud Blanc Esplora Bordeaux 2024

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Le spedizioni partono da €15 in Italia e da €45 verso la Svizzera e il resto d’Europa per un massimo di 48 bottiglie (75 cl). I costi variano in base alla destinazione. Per spedizioni più grandi è possibile richiedere un preventivo.

La data indicata di seguito è quella in cui il tuo ordine verrà spedito dal nostro magazzino locale. La data di consegna finale, insieme ai dettagli completi di tracciamento, ti verrà fornita una volta che il nostro team avrà elaborato la tua richiesta.

Puoi organizzare il ritiro presso il nostro negozio al 22° piano, 8 Wyndham Street, Central Hong Kong.
Gli orari di ritiro sono dalle 9:30 alle 18:00, da lunedì a venerdì.

Puoi organizzare il ritiro presso il nostro magazzino STI INTERNAZIONALE SPA, in Viale del Lavoro 57, 37051 Bovolone, Verona.
Gli orari di ritiro sono dalle 8:30 alle 12:30 e dalle 13:30 alle 17:30, dal lunedì al venerdì. Siamo chiusi nei giorni festivi.

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*Il prezzo di mercato è dinamico e può variare. Al momento della vendita, dal prezzo finale sarà detratta una commissione di negoziazione del 10%.

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Questo articolo si trova presso FINE+RARE.

Questo articolo si trova presso FINE+RARE HOME Hong Kong, ed è disponibile per la consegna o il ritiro in sede. La maggior parte delle consegne a Hong Kong può essere effettuata entro 3 giorni lavorativi; la data esatta sarà comunicata al momento dell'organizzazione della consegna. Le consegne internazionali richiedono tempi più lunghi, ti preghiamo di contattarci per maggiori dettagli.

I vini venduti en primeur saranno rilasciati dal produttore dopo limbottigliamento, tipicamente 18 mesi dopo la fine della cosiddetta campagna. Il tuo vino sarà poi conservato da FINE+RARE in un deposito doganale fino a quando deciderai di richiederne la consegna.

Ci riforniremo di questo articolo al prezzo garantito dalla nostra rete di fornitori e organizzeremo una spedizione rapida a FINE+RARE.
 I tempi di consegna dipendono da molte variabili, ma in genere per un approvvigionamento rapido sono 2-4 settimane.
 Una volta confermato l'ordine, ti terremo aggiornato sulla data di arrivo prevista.
 Ogni articolo viene controllato all'arrivo dal nostro team di esperti e le fotografie sono disponibili su richiesta (si prega di notare che potrebbero essere applicati dei costi).

Reperiremo questo articolo attraverso la nostra rete di fornitori e ne organizzeremo la spedizione a FINE+RARE.
 I tempi di consegna dipendono da molte variabili, ma una stima media è di 6-12 settimane.
 Una volta confermato lordine, ti terremo aggiornato sulla data di arrivo prevista.
 Ogni articolo viene controllato al momento della ricezione dal nostro team di esperti, con fotografie disponibili su richiesta (si prega di notare che potrebbero essere applicati dei costi).

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