Bruo Prats was up after the coffee break.

In case you don't know him, he is the former owner of Cos Estournel.

He said in the 70's the Chateau chapitalized all vintages.
In the 80's, eight out of ten was chapped.
In the 90's they just did reverse osmosis (which he said was more 'natural')
In the past few years nothing. (I doubt that, possible they RO'ed in 2004). And so he is terribly excited about the technology fixes available to neutralize the effect of climate change on grapes, especially 'cause he's a flying winemaker in the Duoro, Chile and South Africa.

Everyone looking for the new frontier is excited about wine, Denmark, Belgium and especially England. Right now Stephen Skelton--flashing is UK tee-shirt proudly under his sportscoat, is up and talking.

He came back from Germany after the 1976 harvest. In 1975, there was nothing under Auslese. His first harvest, in 1979. In those days natural alcohol was 6% (like strong beer). The significant change is a great deal of hot days, it has made the yields more reliable and natural alcohol is up to 9%. So it now is possible to produce wines other than sparklers, now vinifera instead of hybrids are doing well.

Let's see what the cute and charasmatic Jacques Lurton is up to.

"In 2003 there was a problem. In 2004, I said let's try an irrigation trial. We selected 2 h in Pessac, cab and merlot. We had to declassify these to table wines."

He's talking to fast and it's a little confusing but he is saying that he is a big fan of irrigation. "Finding solutions to reduce the carbon footprint fight against each other. If you plow, you burn fuel. Better to use herbicide?" he poses.

I remember in the 80's putting massive amounts of sugar in white bordeaux and today we don't have to. At the same time we cannot lose the flavors of our sauvignon." (tasted his yesterday, they have no typicity. No one in the room could identify the wines as sauvignon they were so tropical.) But, he said, he doesn't believe in adding acidity. (Funny, everyone has their own way of keeping kosher.)