Another day and another conversation with a deliriously happy Bordelaise wine-maker. The phrases `Cheshire cat` and `grinning like` spring to mind.
Comparisons with the 2005 vintage have already started - and most of the fruit is still on the vine. The vintage seemed to be heading more towards a 2003, such has been the heat and the drought of 2009. One rarely finds vignerons pleading for rain in September, but the summer has been such a scorcher that the vines were almost in danger of hydric stress (quite a change from 2007 and 2008). Their prayers have been answered with several heavy showers over the weekend. The vines are refreshed and look in great shape. The Météo looks fine for the next few days, so we could be witnessing another historic vintage in the making…
