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.
2020 Saint Emilion offers several of the best wines of the vintage. The wines offer hedonistic and intellectual tasting experiences that can age for decades. In fact, some estates produced the best wines in their history!
2020 Cotes de Bordeaux are just great! They offer some of the best value wines…
2020 is a good vintage for white Bordeaux. Not only from Pessac Leognan, but the whites from the Medoc are quite strong. The wines are aromatic, creamy, fresh, ripe, and sweet, with good acidities.
2018 is a stunning vintage for Bordeaux wine lovers. The wines are rich, opulent, concentrated, deep, and complex. The wines are going to age and evolve, yet many will offer pleasure with minimal aging due to their flamboyant, forward nature.
At their best, 2019 St. Emilion offers opulent textures, silky tannins, freshness, complex aromatic profiles and the ability to not only age and evolve for decades, but many can be enjoyed in their youth. Lovers of Right Bank wines should be all over these gems.
2021 Bordeaux is not an easy vintage to handicap. I spent 3 weeks tasting over 700 wines to find the gems of the vintage. If you are a fan of classic Bordeaux, like lower alcohol wines, and enjoy more crisp red fruits with savory touches, you are going to like a lot of these wines.