Anson: What now for Bordeaux and UK merchants in 2017?

Jane Anson looks beyond proclamations that ‘Bordeaux is back’ and analyses the numbers to see what might be in store for the region’s wines ahead of the 2016 en primeur season, particularly in a UK market preparing to throw itself into the Brexit quagmire.

At the end of December 2016, a spate of reports fluttered across the UK press about how Bordeaux was back after four years of decline. I must have received three or four press releases saying the same thing from various sources – among them the Liv-ex trading platform, that reported strong trading over the last six months of the year largely due to a Brexit boost from the weaker pound.

 

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