In itself, this was a bad year.
We produced 30 hl, which is 4000 bottles of Courtade Rouge.
A number of professionals thought this wine had no future.
However, I still have 40 odd bottles in my cellar
and each time I open an 87 it is,
like the majority of 87 wines, a real pleasure.
If you still have any of this wine left, now is the time to enjoy it.

A fine vintage, dense and feral.
A wine that you can allow to wait a little longer.

Another fine wine with extra elegance.
If you still have some left, treat yourself at Christmas
and fool your friends by putting it in a carafe.
1989 for me is like a beautiful young woman,
with everything that should be there where it should be.

A fantastic vintage.
Can still be kept as it's very good, even too good,
because there's none left.

A very complex vintage that I have never liked
because it made life impossible for me during the wine-making process.
I only like it when I am given it blind, and that reassures me each time.

If I had to give the 92 wine a mark I'd be very embarrassed.
It's one of those good wines without problems.
1992 is also a little strange in its unusual maturing,
because it didn't reveal its features until very late.
It remained closed and firm for a very long time.

The vintage, my vintage.
I have to admit that I've drunk a few bottles.
An extra super wine which can be laid down for a long time.
If you haven't got any, too bad, I'm afraid it's too late.

The most brutish and the most forthright,
this is the black sheep of the family.
It's comparable to 1992.
It has at least 10 years before it.

This is pure elegance. It made itself by itself without any problem.
If poetry had a flavour and a smell, they would certainly be that of 95. After many years and bottles here, I can compare it to 1989.

It's still in barrels. A very virile, deep and hard wine.
It's the most "macho" of the band.
I like it a lot because it's a bit different.

The eleventh candle. It made us tremble and shiver at first, but finished with a happy ending as it has a lot of skin, little juice and a high degree.
We're hoping that if we aren't the prize-winners at the Cannes Festival, we'll at least be nominated.