A new
vinopanion of mine,
Sam Klingberg, has been making waves in the vino writing webernets over the last year or so with his wine blog,
The Broke Wino. Sam contacted me recently to gather my thoughts on affordable
Bordeaux wine. As one of
Le Wine Buff for
Enjoy Bordeaux for the
CIVB, I have been involved in a lot of great Bordeaux-centric wine activities over the last 1+ years, including a
truly spectacular trip to Bordeaux this past summer.
The dichotomy between the high prices of
First and Second Growth chateaux and the remaining thousands of much more affordable, yet still high quality wine producers and chateaux is a hot topic. With the declaration of "vintages of the century" at least 3 times this decade alone combined with the increasing Asian markets, the prices of the high end Bordeaux have skyrocketed. Happily however, quality has also taken a great leap forward, all across the board.
My super fine readers would have to be asleep not to know about my longtime wine project as Le Wine Buff (WineLog) for Enjoy Bordeaux (Twitter, WineLog). Well, recently I sat down to lunch with reporter Ryan Flinn alongside my fellow 'Buff Rebecca Chapa (Twitter, Facebook) and we discussed our efforts to get the word out about the quantity of affodable, high quality Bordeaux wine. Lo and behold, Ryan Flinn put together a great article discussing just how relevant affordable, high quality Bordeaux wines within the context of the sky-rocketing prices of über-premium wines due to the rise of fine wine culture in China. The article has already been picked up by Bloomberg, BusinessWeek and SFGate, so check it out at any of the prior links. Cheers! 
