It's been a busy couple of weeks in Bordeaux and pretty much all the properties have now been released.   Unfortunately (and as expected) most of the Bordeaux Chateau decided that it easier to borrow the money rather than to release the wines at the price that would be attractive to us. Essentially, they can borrow at (or close to) 0% and figured out, it would make more sense to keep the wine and finance production by borrowing from the banks. I suppose, now that Draghi has confirmed that the interest rates in Euro zone will stay at these levels …

Garmon 2014 - release offer of the latest project by Mariano, Eduardo and Alberto Garcia   "One of the most anticipated projects in Ribera" according to Louis Gutierrez of Wine Advocate fame.   Good afternoon good people, and I hope you are all having a great weekend. It is raining here in Richmond but, we have a bottle of Garmon 2014 open and so it all looks much sunnier.   Garmon is the latest project by Mariano, Eduardo and Alberto Garcia (they also own Mauro and San Roman, and Mariano is Technical Director of Aalto). The idea is to make …