From Nadia Schmidli, at 11. April 2012 08:18
by Adam Lechmere – Medoc cru bourgeois Chateau d’Angludet is the first Bordeaux 2011 to release – at £198 a case in bond from London merchants.
Angludet is €16 a bottle direct from the chateau. The wine is not sold via negociants.
Commentators have been quick to point out this may be 20% less than 2010, but it is still £20 more than the 2008 vintage, which some are using as benchmark for 2011, both in terms of price and quality. The chateau has jumped in price in recent years, London merchant prices going from £150 on release in 2008 to £250 in 2010. The 2008 is currently selling for around £170 a case.
From Peter Niederhauser, at 10. April 2012 18:13
by Richard Woodard – Neusiedlersee has been named as the latest DAC appellation in Austria – completing the family of DACs in Burgenland and the first to focus on the Zweigelt grape variety. From vintage 2011, wines can be released under the Neusiedlersee or Neusiedlersee Reserve DACs, alongside Burgenland’s existing DAC appellations: Mittelburgenland, Leithaberg and Eisenberg.
From Nadia Schmidli, at 10. April 2012 18:10
by Adam Lechmere – As the UK wine trade makes its way back from Bordeaux they are more preoccupied with price than at any time since the 2008 vintage. At this stage of the week there are points on which most agree. Few would argue that the vintage is not ‘mixed, to say the least,’ as Neil Sommerfelt MW of Jeroboams said. But, he added, ‘when they are good they are very good.’
Decanter‘s consultant editor Steven Spurrier
From Franz Aregger, at 10. April 2012 18:07
by Jane Anson in Bordeaux – Herve Berland, managing director of Mouton Rothschild since 2006, and with the Rothschild family since 1977, will be heading to Chateau 
Montrose after his retirement from the Pauillac First Growth.
Berland was at Mouton during the 2011 en primeur tastings, and Decanter.com understands he will be starting his new job today, Tuesday April 10. Berland’s decision to join Montrose, just a few kilometres away from Mouton in Saint Estèphe, will confirm the Second Growth’s habit of attracting former First Growth directors to its 94 hectares
Jean-Bernard Delmas, formerly director of Chateau Haut-Brion,
From Marcel Merz, at 29. March 2012 15:42
Per Verordnung des österreichischen Landwirtschafts- und Umweltminister vom 28. März 2012 dürfen ab sofort bestimmte burgenländische regionaltypische Qualitätsweine beginnend mit dem Jahrgang 2011 unter der Bezeichnung Neusiedlersee DAC vermarktet werden. Mit dieser achten DAC-Herkunft in Österreich gibt es damit auch gleichzeitig das erste DAC-Gebiet, das sich auf die stärkste heimische Rebsorte, den Blauen Zweigelt, konzentriert. „Durch die neue Neusiedlersee DAC sollen die vom Klima und Boden geprägten fruchtigen, harmonischen Rotweine noch stärker hervorgehoben und deren Bekanntheitsgrad erhöht werden“, kommentiert Andreas Liegenfeld, Obmann des Regionalen Weinkomitees im Burgenland. „In Summe soll dadurch das Image des gesamten Weinbaugebietes gehoben werden.“ Mit der neuen Neusiedlersee DAC ist die burgenländische Herkunftsstrategie mit vier DAC-Gebieten nun abgeschlossen.
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