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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2014 and 2019 (based on 86 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.6 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by t0pshelf on 12/21/2022: No idea where I got this bottle or how much I paid for it. Guessing it's a budget bordeax but it's still held up well. Healthy minerality, perfume on the nose, not a lot of fruit or tannins. (272 views) | | | Tasted by wprev on 1/12/2020 & rated 89 points: solid still after ten years; soft tannins (678 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Poor on 9/2/2018 & rated 88 points: Not bad. Smooth fruit and forest floor hints made this easy drinking yet enjoyable. (989 views) | | | Tasted by wprev on 9/6/2015 & rated 88 points: tanins allready soft, pleasant and full of perfume and linerals (2650 views) | | | Tasted by redz on 1/27/2014: still too tannic after 4 hours for me to judge much. Could get nice (3610 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 4/24/2013: Sweetly fruited with some oak and then a hard, cigarette back end. (4116 views) | | | Tasted by Blue Shorts on 3/11/2013 & rated 88 points: A nice bordeaux for the price. COuld be a bit fruiter, but enjoyable nevertheless. (3995 views) | | | Tasted by Stassen on 1/20/2013 & rated 85 points: The wine looks Purple colored. The legs are Medium. It smells like Black currant, Coffee, Burnt, and Oak. It tastes like Black currant, Coffee, and Oak. The body is Medium. The wine finishes Medium. (3633 views) |
| Château Beaulieu Comtes de Tastes Producer websiteRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux)
History of Bordeaux
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"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman
"The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanBordeaux Supérieur Read About Bordeaux Superieur - Bordeaux Supérieur - Read about Petit Chateau and Bordeaux Satellite Appellation wines |
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