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    Mar 03, 2021 3 minutes

    Burgundy 2008s

    What is your view on the 2008 vintage for red Burgundy today?

    Trond A Gudbrandsen, by email

    Charles Curtis MW replies: The 2008 vintage in Burgundy is remembered as perhaps the best example of a season ‘saved by the bell’, or more appropriately, saved by une belle arrière-saison – the timely intervention of dry, sunny weather at the very last moment.

    Growers certainly needed saving in 2008. The season started poorly – snow almost until Easter – and it

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