Bordeaux 2011 at Two Years
You have to take the rough with the smooth, so the saying goes. Well, we have had our little patch of smooth; if you haven’t yet added some 2009 and/or 2010 Bordeaux to the cellar, then you haven’t quite missed out, but you might do if you don’t act soon; there isn’t a vintage to match these two coming for some time I think, and people with money to spend are going to be ‘backfilling’ their cellars from these vintages over the next couple of years. Having said that, you might want to wait for my forthcoming Bordeaux 2009 report before you buy; having recently tasted the wines, now at four years of age, the vintage is not necessarily the universal success it has been sold as (is any vintage really a universal success?).
So now, then, it is time for the rough, and this particular little rough patch extends over two and indeed probably even three vintages, these being 2011, 2012 and 2013. I will have to wait until I have tasted the wines, at the primeurs next year, before I can make any sensible or valid judgement on the most recent of these three vintages though, and I haven’t had any recent contact with Bordeaux 2012 (other than tastes of both Petrus and Lafleur from barrel a couple of weeks ago – hardly a representative sample!). I have tasted plenty of Bordeaux 2011 in recent weeks though, and so for the moment it is to 2011 to which I turn my attention.
