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Winemakers on both sides of the Atlantic sing praises of ‘09 vintage

By Mark Fisher | Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 10:30 AM

The 2009 vintage is being hailed enthusiastically by winemakers on at least two continents.

First it was Beaujolais wine producer Georges Duboeuf, who is described in a news release as “ecstatic about this year’s Beaujolais harvest, predicting it one of the best Beaujolais vintages in the last 50 years.”

(Bill Deutsch, Chairman of Georges Duboeuf’s exclusive U.S. importer, W.J. Deutsch & Sons Ltd., is quoted in the news release as saying of the nouveau that is about to be released next month, “We anticipate retail prices to be lower than last year, averaging $9 to $11 per bottle.” Wonder what the Ohio retail will be?)

And in California, winemakers range from pleased to positively ecstatic about the quality of the fruit they’re harvesting from their vineyards, according to this piece from Jon Bonne for the San Francisco Chronicle.

The story describes a wine market in which high-quality wines may coincide with reasonable, if not slightly depressed, prices. Which would leave this wine drinker anything BUT depressed … .

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