2010 Pauillac Bordeaux Wine Guide Reviews Tasting Notes
2010 Bordeaux wine from Pauillac is sublime from top to bottom, with some producers making one of the best wines in the history of the chateau. The wines are rich, fresh, stylish and expensive.
2010 Bordeaux wine from Pauillac is sublime from top to bottom, with some producers making one of the best wines in the history of the chateau. The wines are rich, fresh, stylish and expensive.
Older Bordeaux wines are time machines. They are bottled history. Tasting older vintages of Bordeaux wine allows you to be instantly transported back in time. Opening these older wines is an honor. Not many bottles remain and the truth is, most wines that are 50 or 60 years old have not fared well.
2011 Bordeaux really isn’t as early as some people are claiming. In May and June the grapes were maturing ahead of schedule. But July and August were cold and slowed the vines’ development.
Old vines and pre-phylloxera, ungrafted rootstock produced a 2011 Bordeaux vintage that allowed for wine to be made from microscopic yields of only 10 hectoliters per hectare this year!
Grand Vin Chateau Reignac is a rich, concentrated, opulent, ripe, up front style of wine that offers a lot of pleasure for the money. Plus, the wine shows well young.
With all the talk about 2011 Bordeaux futures, it’s easy to forget that the one of the best things about Bordeaux wine, is the numerous estates making great wine that sell for fair amounts of money, age well and they are easy to find.
The 2012 Bordeaux harvest in Pessac Leognan is late. For some vintners, they need another few weeks to finish the Cabernet Sauvignon.