If you are not into wine, you will find this entry of very limited interest...if you love wine, stop for an amazing experience we had the chance to live few days ago. Sauternes is less than 2% of the total Bordeaux production, with a maximum yield of 3333 bottles per hectare (I simplify the terms to make it easy here). As they have a maximum of 2200 hectares, make the maths, each year, the maximum amount of bottles that could be released is less than 7.5 millions bottles. It is actually way less than this as the calculation is based on a maximum yield production, and this never happen and is not even advisable. We arrived to Sauternes driving on a Sunday night from Bordeaux just in time to settle in one of the few rooms
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