BURGUNDY 2015 IMPRESSES
From ADAM LECHMERE | Wine Searcher London | Saturday, 14-Jan-2017
Cynical wine journalists tend to hear alarm bells when wine merchants tell them to « believe the hype » – but in the case of Burgundy 2015, there’s more than a grain of truth to the pre-vintage excitement.
Burgundy 2015 is beguiling, charming, seductive and eminently drinkable. Sommeliers, buyers, wine merchants and critics buzzed up and down Pall Mall, across Piccadilly to Mayfair, and over to the ancient halls of the City with increasing enthusiasm as London en primeur week wore on.
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2014 Merchants are uniformly positive. « Believe the hype, » Berry Bros. & Rudd told its clients in an early e-mail. « The 2015 vintage is a truly great year. It’s everything that was good about 2005 and 2010. »