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Looking ahead Sally Easton looks at the merits of the 2008 grape harvest in northern Europe and spies out the possible bargains For the northern hemisphere, the wine grape harvest mostly happens from August, in the hot Mediterranean areas, to November, in the cool northern latitudes. Which means, from the back end of the year, all the talk is of the quality and quantity of the harvest in France, Italy and Spain, the top three wine-producing nations in the world. At the crunchy, sub-£5 end of the market, wine buyers and traders are all jockeying for position, building a picture of the new vintage, where prices are likely to be going, and how to secure enough volume of the right wine for their brands. It’s a busy time of year behind the scenes in the wine industry, organising the next 12months’ worth of stocks. It would be a bit like having to order all your food shopping for the entire year, with it being delivered and paid for each week. How much will you need? How much entertaining are you going to do? How often will you be on holiday? Which range of supermarkets, high-street shops and internet shops will you choose to build up your stocks of comestibles? It’s a pretty big budgeting and forecasting exercise. Get it right and everything’s hunky-dory; get it wrong, and risk running out of wine for customers, risk paying over the odds, risk not getting good enough quality wine because somebody’s been there before you and snapped up all the best goodies. Spain has produced a similar-sized crop to last year, but the 2008 harvest in France saw that country’s fortunes continue to fall. It had one of its smallest harvests in a long time, about 15 per cent down on 2007, which was already the smallest harvest since the year 2000. All of this, of course, means higher prices because there’s less wine to go round. And without wanting to paint a really gloomy picture, we all know that sterling is losing value fast, and anything bought in the Euro-zone is much pricier. Italy, on the other hand, with something of a bumper harvest, overtook France in 2008, to become the world’s biggest wine producer. It hasn’t done this in about a decade. Sicily had a lot to do with this, producing 50 per cent more wine than it did in 2007. But in itself, this doesn’t mean too much, because in 2007 Sicily produced half what it had in 2006, so really, it’s just back to ‘normal’ production. But if there is any bargain to be had from the 2008 vintage, it may well be Sicilian. V TRY THESE 2008 vintage wines from the northern hemisphere won’t be on the market for another few months, and then only ‘entry level’ wines. In the meantime, these are good to try: Marks & Spencer: Baglio Rosso Nero d’Avola 2007, Italy £5.49 Domaine de Planterieu, VdP des Cotes de Gascogne 2007, France £4.79 D’Angelo, Aglianico del Vulture 2005, Italy £12.49, or £9.99 each for 2 bottles (3 February to 2 March) wine wisdom v Sally Easton MW (Master of Wine) is a wine educator and freelance writer. She teaches consumer classes and runs corporate seminars via her wine school. www.winewisdom.com Become an online wino winethief.co.uk New Zealand wine online 25 <strong>View</strong>
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