Bordeaux 2015 Primeurs: AC Bordeaux Tasting Notes
The white wines of Château Cos d’Estournel and Château Margaux are just two among many reviewed here, and there are plenty of other worthy wines.
From the left bank, one of the more notable was Aile d’Argent from Château Mouton-Rothschild, but there were others with which I am less familiar, including wines from Château Cantenac-Brown and Château La Tour Carnet. Both of these wines are, perhaps, indicators of the increased interest in white wines in Bordeaux, from left bank terroirs as well as more established white regions.
One such more established region is Graves and Sauternes, where white varieties have long been planted. In Sauternes, the production of a dry white wine alongside the sweet wines is now an accepted norm, indeed you could even say it is de rigueur. One wine that showed well, as it often does, is S de Suduiraut, which I tasted at Château Pichon-Baron with Christian Seely. The style of this wine is quite classic, the fruit taken from highly regarded terroir felt to be of sufficient quality for the Sauternes, rather than lesser, more distant soils. As such the production remains limited, perhaps 600 cases per annum. With continued interest and demand, however, Christian has plans to introduce a second dry white from another corner of the vineyard.
Other white wines also showed well, from the Jonathan Maltus wine Le Nardian to a number of right-bank contributions, especially Les Champs Libres and the Château Magrez-Fombrauge Blanc.
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