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We use cookies on our website to provide the best possible experience. You can manage the cookies we use below and confirm your choices. You can find out more about how we use cookies here. Two-thousand fifteen was, in a word, excellent. Here were ideal growing conditions for achieving a beautiful ripeness in both Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot: long stretches of thoroughly warm days offset by consistently cool nights. This meant that the very healthy levels of phenolic development fruit enjoyed during the day were duly balanced by the refreshing levels of acidity lower night-time temperatures preserved and sustained. That the ideal dynamic this established in the vineyards was further enhanced by good water reserves from the previous winter meant most vines were sufficiently fortified against heat stress in what was one of the driest growing seasons on record.

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Across the Northern Hemisphere, winemakers in many regions are reporting one of the earlier grape harvests they've seen. They're scrambling to pick fruit and find tank space. Wine Spectator will be providing snapshot looks at harvest in major wine regions, providing an early preview of what wine drinkers can expect. Up next, Bordeaux, where winemakers are cautiously but optimistically comparing their young wines with those from classic vintages and An ideal growing season, with a warm, dry summer and just enough rain in August and September, produced promising fruit.

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When I visit a new city, or even one I know well, one of the things I love to do is take photos of street art like graffiti and yarnbombing as well as the more traditional forms of art like statues. Recently I visited Bordeaux which seems to have a lively urban art scene and the municipal council brings art into the public spaces so that you encounter exciting artwork wherever you go. But one of the real joys is the time you have to peek into odd corners, peer over fences and through windows and double back to take a second look at something you glimpsed in passing.

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