A world-class series of bordeaux wines
By Wine Atlas, Monday 31 October 2005 :: Wine - France :: #76 :: rss
For 25 years, as civilian wine lovers, we tasted hundreds of wines a year. Now, we taste thousands. But we have never lost our capacity for surprise and wonder. We enjoy just about all wines in their own way, but we also look forward to those days when we have a wine that takes us someplace special, that rare Delicious! wine, with an exclamation point, that is unique but, at the same time, fits into a time-taste line with all of the other greatest wines of our lives. The first-growth wines from bordeaux should offer that kind of life experience and, sometimes, they do. This is the story of one that did.
Recently, we wrote about midrange bordeaux from the 2002 vintage. We found some bargains in this vintage because the wines have gotten overlooked between two "vintages of the century" – 2000 and 2003. We wondered: If the midrange bordeaux is so good and so reasonably priced, as these things go, how about the first growths? The first growths were the top of the heap among red bordeaux wines in the famous Classification of 1855.
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