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...Bordeaux for more than €50 per bottle. That's double the price his 2004 wine fetched, and 75% higher than the spectacular 2000 vintage, the best in recent memory. "If you have a wine that's in demand, you can sell it," he shrugs. In the village of Margueron an hour's drive away to the east, at Jean Charles' winery just behind the medieval church, the picture couldn't be more different. Charles usually sells his entire wine output to a local merchant, who bottles and markets it for him. But this year, for the first time...
...village of Margueron, an hour's drive to the east, at Jean Charles' winery just behind the medieval church, the picture couldn't be more different. Charles usually sells his entire output to a local merchant, who bottles and markets it for him. But this year, for the first time, the merchant won't touch the stuff. Stainless-steel vats are filled with thousands of gallons of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from last year's harvest that Charles is frantic to sell at any price to make room for this year's crop. Charles, 58, stands in his courtyard, surrounded...
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