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Not true at all. There are plenty of bad vintages. Try to find 2014
Austrian wines. Not easy because it was a bad vintage.
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On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 6:38:52 PM UTC+1, Lawrence Leichtman wrote:
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> Not true at all. There are plenty of bad vintages. Try to find 2014
> Austrian wines. Not easy because it was a bad vintage.


I think it is true for new world wines. I read California 2011 is supposed to be the worst vintage in mans memory, but the wines from there are just fine.
But in north europe, bad menas bad; as in barely any yield, most plants having botrytis, magnesium, acid wasp attacks, wet harvest, because ochsel numbers only rise above 80 in mid october.
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