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All the wine made at Figeac
is sold through the Bordeaux market, or la place de Bordeaux,
as it is known. The wines are soldon a futures basis to the
Bordeaux trade in a single batch; no wine is sold directly at
the estate. The sales price for a particular year is determined
according to the quality of the vintage and the state of the
market as indicated by the brokers.
Nowadays, the sale
is completed extremely quickly, a matter of two or three days
for the entire harvest (it took five years to sell the 1945
vintage, now so highly prized!).
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