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Article: My Round: That was a very good year Or was it? If you want the low-down on recent vintages - and a lot more beside - look no further than `Wine Report 2005'
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2004
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By the time you read this, the wine harvests in the northern
hemisphere will be well underway. At the time of writing, the reports
I've read suggest that no nasty surprises lie in store. But it's not
the current vintage that buyers have to be thinking about: these
wines are many months away from their rendezvous with the bottling
line. If you're thinking about what to buy in the run- up to (dare I
mention the word?) Christmas, or even for Midsummer Eve 2005, you
should more often be thinking about the years 2002 and 2003.
And if you want some really useful advice about those earlier
vintages, you'd do well to pick up the new edition of a book I
praised to the rafters last year. Wine Report ...