Fine Wines SG - Bordeaux 2010 vs 2011 BYO

To identify the subregion of these wines

• 2011 Château Pape Clément 92 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

  Deep ruby, thick and highly extracted. Pronounced nose, with savoury earthy leathery aromas. Tannic, savoury, meaty, with some red cherry. Quite persistent. Nice!

  Read 1 Comment / Post a Comment / 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Report Issue

• 2010 Château de Fieuzal 93 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

  Deep purple, thick and highly extracted. Spicy, blooming nose. Tannic, but big fruity fleshy, lots of cassis and baking spices, and huge rose plume. Long finish. Great power!

  Post a Comment / 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Report Issue

To identify which of these wines is Margaux

• 2010 Château La Lagune 91 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Haut-Médoc

  Deep ruby, thick and highly extracted. Quite a prompt nose upfront with blackberry and florals, but thins after some time. Tannic, with quite a bit of blackberry. Quite straight up

  Post a Comment / 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Report Issue

• 2011 Château Smith Haut Lafitte 94 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan

  Deep ruby, thick and highly extracted. Floral, spicy clove nose. Tannic, and intense flavours of purple flowers, blackberry, cassis, rose petals, fern leaves, tar, graphite. A long finish of florals as well. Great wine!

  Post a Comment / 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Report Issue

• 2010 Château Lascombes 92 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux

  Deep purple, thick and highly extracted. Aromas of purple flowers, fern, and blackberry. Soft and silky tannins, and some good ripe cassis and blackberry flavours, as well as intense florals. A good persistence as well. Nice!

  Post a Comment / Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Report Issue

To see if the highly rated Ducru Beaucaillou 2010 will stand out

• 2010 Château Léoville Barton 91 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

  Deep ruby, and thick. Straight up aromas and flavours mainly of cassis and thyme. Fairly good structure, and good amount of fruit flesh. Tannins seemed softened, and a fair finish

  Post a Comment / 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Report Issue

• 2010 Château Lagrange (St. Julien) 89 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

  Deep ruby. Green nose, and some clove spices. Rather thin and funky, with green fern notes

  Read 1 Comment / Post a Comment / 3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Report Issue

• 2011 Château Léoville Poyferré 94 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

  Deep ruby, thick and highly extracted. Big fern and floral nose for a start, and then some blackberry. Very savoury leathery funky flavours on the palate, and purple flowers and blackberry, and still a good structure. A good long finish as well. Great!

  Post a Comment / Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Report Issue

• 2010 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou 93 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

  Deep ruby. Nose subtle and green. But the palate showed lots of structure, tannins, and with the cassis fruits get more and more intense, with mint and purple flowers

  Post a Comment / Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Report Issue

As title suggests...

• 2011 Château Pontet-Canet 91 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

  Deep ruby, thick and highly extracted. Spicy herby nose and a good amount of florals. Savoury, red cherries, cloves, and even meaty. A nice persistence as well

  Post a Comment / 3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Report Issue

• 2011 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 91 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

  Deep ruby, and thick. Pink floral, blackberry, and peppery nose. Savoury, redcurrant, cloves, meat stew. Fair finish

  Post a Comment / Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Report Issue

• 2011 Château Lynch-Bages Flawed

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

  Unfortunately TCA affected, but could still see it power through with ripe redcurrants above the cardboard - shows the potential of this wine. Not rating to be fair

  Post a Comment / Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Report Issue

• 2010 Château Sociando-Mallet 91 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Haut-Médoc

  Deep purplish pink, and thick. Subtle greenish nose, even slightly herbal. Some tannins, green fern, blackberry, hay and some graphite. Straight and upfront, but pretty pleasant

  Read 1 Comment / Post a Comment / 3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Report Issue