
Recent and impending developments affecting the retail wine market:
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The rich, powerful and complete 2005s are the finest set of young Burgundies Ive yet tasted from barrel. In my most extensive report to date on this category, youll find notes on wines from virtually all of the regions top producers, as well as detailed coverage of the sappy, soil-inflected 2004s.
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Todays best wines from the Cape region give top European bottles tough competition at a much gentler price. Best of all are cabernets and Bordeaux blends, syrahs and sauvignon blancs.
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Brisk, nervy, truly dry white wines still exist, and Josh Raynolds has turned up well over a hundred excellent examples from the Loire Valleys gloriously ripe 2005 and more classic 2004 vintages.
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