(Independent) - 130,000 bottles – which usually sell at about €10 each – will be sold off as generic Haut Médoc red wine for about €2 or €3 each after vineyard decides it is unworthy of its label.

There will be no such thing as a Chateau Malescasse 2013.

The middle-ranking Bordeaux vineyard has decided that the claret it produced last year, after a series of weather-related calamities, is unworthy of its label.

All 130,000 bottles – which usually sell at about €10 (£8.30) each – will be sold off as generic Haut Médoc red wine for about €2 or €3 a bottle.

The decision sent shock waves through the Bordeaux wine industry, which is already bracing itself for a sour reaction to last year’s vintage when the world’s leading wine critics and buyers flock to France’s most important wine-growing region from next month.

The influential American wine critic Robert Parker has postponed his traditional March tastings – the oenological equivalent of a papal visit – until the end of June to allow the 2013 vintage more time to reveal its true qualities (good or bad).