[caption id="attachment_572" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Bordeaux En Primeur tasting"][/caption]Ever since last year’s very successful (read profitable) 2010 Bordeaux en Primeur campaign people have been speculating about what would happen with the 2011 wines. So when vintage conditions proved to be rather challenging last September, a steady "end of the world as we know it" buzz started gaining momentum. Bring on Robert Parker, who brushed off the vintage before the En Primeur tasting week even started and then Chateau Latour deciding to leave the En Primeur system and all at once the talk of wine town became the collapse ... [
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