BORDEAUX – Importer & Distributor
“Take Versailles, add Antwerp, and you have Bordeaux” – Victor Hugo
“Let us take courage by the example of the French, whose exportation of Bordeaux wines increases as the area of their land in vineyards is diminished” - James Russell Lowell, Democracy: Inaugural Address on Assuming the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institue, Birmingham, England, 6 October, 1884
Bordeaux “has about 117,000 hectares of vineyards, 57 appellations, 9,000 wine-producing châteaux, 13,000 grape growers, 400 traders, sales of 14.5 billion euros annually” and a Christmas song that ends with two empty bottles and a lonely wine-key. Bordeaux wines are best known for their ’Classified’ Growths established by the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. Well Established, Few Wine Regions have Compared in Breadth and Depth to Bordeaux in providing Similarity to the Varicose and Pleasure to the Collector.
“O yes; I saw that treasure ere it left your house. Your grandfather was not merely a collector, he had a thorough knowledge of art” – J.W. von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. This photo depicts a nostalgic time for treasure hunters when Tushratta of the Mitanni stated that Gold, in Egypt, was more plentiful than dirt.
A List of Noteworthy Bordeaux I Have Tasted Includes:
1961 Latour
1966 Haut-Brion
1970 Palmer
1982 Mouton-Rothschild
1982 Palmer
1983 Palmer
1989 Palmer
1990 Margaux
1994 Margaux
1998 Margaux
1998 Trotanoy
2000 D’Yquem
2000 Hosanna
2000 Mouton-Rothschild
2000 Palmer
2000 Pichon Longueville Baron
2001 D’Yquem
2002 Haut-Brion
2003 Cos d’Estournel
2006 Palmer
2006 Canon-la-Gaffeliere
XIX Century Blend Palmer
“What stuff you are all talking!” said Mme. Vauquer; “you would do better to treat us to your Bordeaux; I see a glimpse of a bottle there. It would keep us all in a good humor, and it is good for the stomach besides.” – Honore de Balzac (also a lover of Chateau D’Aqueria in Tavel), Old Goriot.
Properties that I have previously Sold/Represented and currently Sell/Represent:
20 Mille
3 de Valandraud
Alter Ego de Palmer
Angelique de Monbousquet
Angelus
Aromes de Pavie
Ausone
Bad Boy
Bahands Haut Brion
Barde Haut
Beausejour Duffau Lagarosse
Bel Air Ouy
Belgrave
Bellevue la Randee
Bellevue Mondotte
Blasson D’Issan
Boyd-Cantenac
Branaire-Ducru
Branda
Branon
Brassac
Cambon la Pelouse
Canon
Canon la Gaffeliere
Canon St Michel
Cap de Faugeres
Caronne St Gemme
Castlenau de Suduirat
Chapelle d’Ausone
Chasse Spleen
Charles de Sarpe
Cheval Blanc
Clauzet
Clerc Milon
Clos du Marquis
Clos L’Eglise
Clos les Lunelles
Clos Louis
Clos Margalaine
Clos Puy Arnaud Valette
Clos St Martin
Cos d’Estournel
Cote de Baleau
Cote Montpezat Compostolle
Croix de Labrie
Croix Mouton
Coucy
D’Aiguilhe
D’Angludet
D’Argadens
D’Armaillhac
Dames Blance
De Fargues
De Fobel
De Laussac
De L’Hoste
De Malle
De Taillan
Doisy Daene
Doisy Daene, L’Extravagant
Ducluzeaux
Ducru Beaucaillou
Dufort Vivens
D’Yquem
Ermitage de Bel Air
Faugeres
Feytit Clinet
Figeac
Filhot
Fleur Cardinale
Fleur de Gay
Fombrauge
Fonbadet
Fonreaud
Fourcas Hosten
G de Guiraud
Gachon
Gamage
Girolate
Gloria
Grand Bateau
Grand Puy Lacoste
Goulee
Gracia
Guiraud
Haut Bages Averous
Haut Brion
Haut Claverie
Haut Gaudin
Haut Marbuzet
Haut Mazeris
Haut Pontet
Haut Vigneau
Latour
La Bonnelle
La Chenade
La Clare
La Couspade
La Croix de Beaucaillou
La Fleur de Bouard
La Fleur de Gay
La Fleur St Georges
La Garde
La Gomiere
La Mauriane
La Mission Haut Brion
La Mondotte
La Petit Eglise
La Tour Blanche
La Tour Carnet
La Tour Haut Brion
Lafite Marcellin
Lafite Rothschild
La Grugere
Langlet
Larmande
Lascombes
Latour
Laville Haut Brion
Le Baron de Brane
Le Bon Pasteur
Le Moulin
Le Petit Moulin
Le Pin de Beausoleil
Leoville Barton
Leoville Las Cases
Leoville Poyferre
Les Brulieres de Beychevelle
Les Cruzelles
Les Fiefs de la Grange
Les Forts de la Tour
Les Grands Chenes
Les Ormes de Pez
L’Evangile
L’Eveche
L’Ermitage
Lucia
Lusseau
Lynch Bages
Lynsolence
Margaux
Magrez Fombrauge
Marjosse
Maury
Monbousquet
Mondot
Moulin D’Issan
Moulin St. Georges
Mouton Rothschild
Nairac
Palmer
Pape Clement
Paveil de Luze
Pavie
Pavie Decesse
Pavie Macquin
Petite Eglise
Pey La Tour Reserve
Pichon Baron
Pichon Lalande
Poitevin
Pontet Canet
Poujeaux
Presidial Thunevin
Puy St Georges
R de Rieussec
Reyyson
Rieussec
Rocher Bellevue Figeac
Rol Valentein
Rouget
Roustit
S de Suduirat
Saintayme
Senejac
Serenite
Sirius
St Colombe
St Georges
Smith Haut Lafite
Sociondo Mallet
Suduirat
Tertre du Lys D’Or
Teyssier Montagne
Troplong Mondot
Trotonay
Valandraud
Vieux Plaisance
Virgine de Valandraud
Bordeaux is the Birthplace of Montaigne (Of Drunkennefs), Rene Clement and Decimus Magnus Ausonius: Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis legerit, hic sapiet…
(”I’ve never written for a fasting man; A taste of wine is good before my verse.”)
CONTACT:
BRAD L. NICHOLS, ”Backer of Brouhaha”
Key Account Manager / Brand Manager & Company Educator
3405 Cave Springs Avenue
Bowling Green, KY 42104
E-mail: brad.lee.nichols@gmail.com
Cell: (502) 648-4544
Website: www.winesutra.com
Bryant Distributing Company of Kentucky
7925 National Turnpike Suite # 120
Louisville KY 40214

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