April 2011 After tasting four hundred plus wines during the primeurs week in April 2011, I found plenty of fruit, tannin and acid, not always in that order, but certainly in number in Bordeaux 2010. There is a lot of everything in this vintage. Lots of colour, often dense saturated colours across the board, but then […]
Address: Saint-Lambert 33250 Pauillac Telephone: +33 (0)5 56 73 19 80 E-mail: infos@chateau-latour.com Website: www.chateau-latour.com This remarkable estate lies on the border with St Julien, the adjacent vineyards in that appellation belong to Château Léoville-Las-Cases. If looked at by its performance over a fifty year period Château Latour must rate as the most consistently great […]
Address: 33250 Pauillac Website: www.lafite.com Château Duhart-Milon makes extremely fine Pauillac under the Lafite winemaking team. Previously the wines were maybe a little on the elegant side and it was easy to underrate them alongside more powerful and obvious neighbours. Nevertheless since 2000 this wine has been on top form and great wines were made […]
Bordeaux’s most aristocratic address, this commune is home to the finest red Cabernet-based wines in the world: Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Latour and Château Mouton-Rothschild. Today Château Pichon-Longueville and Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande are deserving contenders as modern-day first growths, along with the ambitious Château Pontet-Canet since 2000 which now produces some of the most concentrated and sublime […]
