Some Tips About the 2006 Vintage in the Loire John Mark and the other 34 members of our group have tasted a range of delicious 2006s, a vintage I find very reminiscent of 2004. Everytime you taste great wines here in Angers, you hear the same story. They had to pick quickly, hire extra harvesters and do a trie in their vineyards to eliminate rot. If they did that, they brought out sanitary and ripe grapes. The key to this vintage was to hand harvest, to do so quickly and intelligently and with selectivity. Those who machine harvested had to clean up the wines and chemically eliminate rot by using charcoal and other additives which not only eliminate rot but which also eliminate the wine's material as well. |