Wine
The Best (and Worst) Wines of the 2017 Vintage From Bordeaux
A terrible growing season resulted in a small—though, in some cases, truly special—collection of wines.
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When I headed to Bordeaux to taste barrel samples from the region’s 2017 vintage, I was not hopeful.
I’d followed reports of the severe frosts over several nights in late April last year. The worst frost in 26 years decimated vines and drastically reduced the overall grape harvest by nearly 50 percent. “The frosts were biblical,” says Gavin Quinney, owner of Chateau Bauduc, who shows me photos of blackened vines on his iPhone as we compare notes at a château lunch.