Its the third day of my Marathon Wine Tasting for the En Primeur Bordeaux 2010 vintage. I feel like I've been here for a week already.... the amount of wines on show and available to taste is staggering... people from all over the world have decended on Bordeaux for the 2010 vintage.
I am carefully making notes and also retasting wines that I thought showed great promise in the quest to bring you a balanced view of the vintage. It is without doubt a good vintage, but how good is the question.
Today was a day of literally Chateaux hopping...
Started with a quick 5 wines at Pavie at 8am. Pavie was good, huge wine but with impressive depth and structure. Also tasted Monbousquet and Pavie Decesse which were very good.
Onto L'Arrosée for a couple more. Lovely wine, good fruit, structure and well knitted tannins and alcohol. Next was Chateau Canon which was brilliant and then onto Larcis Ducasse for about 10 wines including Pavie Macquin and a special cuvee called George (wasn't too bad at all). They were all wines consulted by Stephane Derenoncourt.
Then we went to La Couspaude for another UGC tasting, The star here was Figeac. Then a race to Cheval Blanc, where we tasted D'Yquem as well all before 12pm. Petit Cheval was showing better than Cheval Blanc.
From Cheval Blanc we went on to La Pointe in Pomerol - tasted Clinet (excellent), Petit Village, le Conseillante etc and had a spot of lunch. After lunch we went to Soutard from the Michel Roland wines. Hard work, big modern wines, all a bit similar. Struggled with a lot. Big tannins and good fruit but often a bit unexciting.
With a mouth full of tannin we went Malactic Lagraviere for the Pessac UGC tasting....
Jamie
