Things are changing in Bordeaux.

The red wines of Bordeaux were my first love.   Initially, because of Hugh Johnson, one of the best (if not the best) wine writers of the past forty plus years, and secondly because of Robert M. Parker, who created the 100 point rating system.  Johnson stirred my interest (in his first book titled Wine ) when he described Bordeaux wines, quite simply, as being “beautiful,” much like great art or mood-moving music. And Parker completed the attention grab with his effusively written, bi-monthly wine reviews, particularly the 1982 Bordeaux critique. But my heart sank when I saw this headline in a recent Decanter magazine article: “Bordeaux gives the go ahead for new grapes.”   Because of the inexorable march of global warming, France’s national appellation body is looking to six new grapes, (four red, two white) “to mitigate the impact of climate change without diluting the identity of Bordeaux wines.” Bordeaux aficionados know that the five main red grapes that underlie th

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