Author Jeff Leve

2019 AOC Bordeaux wines are perfect for early drinking, pleasure. They are usually quite inexpensive as well as being interesting to taste offering a lot of value for the money.

2019 Bordeaux Superieur Wines are just great this year. Lush, opulent, early-drinking and with everything great about ripe Merlot. All that and the wines are priced low enough to purchase by the case.

Conditions were perfect for vineyards in the far north of the Left bank to produce very good Medoc wines with ripe tannins, sweetness to the fruits and complex aromatics giving wine lovers a myriad of good wines and fair prices.

2019 Graves red and white wines at their best are aromatic, soft, smoky, medium-bodied, forward and refined. They should all deliver pleasure early. In fact, most will be delicious on release.