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Issue No 185 - June 2000

1999 Bordeaux. The Full Story

In this Issue:

A key to Merchants
A list of merchants in the UK where Bordeaux 'en primeur' can be found.

1999 Bordeaux
Vintage summary for 1999 and the 1998s one year on.

Bordeaux Petits Chateaux
There are increasing signs of significant progress in the category.

Cotes de Castillon
It produces sturdy red wines based on Merlot grapes with generally better structure than regular red Bordeaux AC.

Cotes de Francs
A 'pit-stop- visit.

Fronsac and Canon-Fronsac
Good value for money found here.

Lalande de Pomerol
Worth investigating.

Premiers Cotes de Blaye
Chateau Segonzac is the stand out example for this visit.

Saint-Emilion
Grand Crus and Satellites

More than just a handful of delicious lesser wines.

Saint-Emilion Grands Crus classes
The best of the 'grand crus classes' found were l'Arossee, Grand-Mayne, Pavie-Macquin and Toplong-Mondot.

Saint-Emilion Premiers Grands Crus
Cheval-Blanc and Magdelaine are about the only really successful 'premiers grands crus classes' here.

Saint-Foy Bordeaux
IChateau Martet impresses.

Premieres Cotes de Bordeaux
There are some very good wines all the way down the to the new wave of wines of this region.

White Graves
( Pessac-Leognan)

This is a great vintage for dry white Bordeaux.

Medoc and Haut-Medoc
Little joy except at super-bourgeois levels.

Listrac and Moulis
Clive finds that things can turn topsey-turvey in a flash and that quality can not be guaranteed from one year to the next.

Margaux
Ferriere is a peach, so is Labegorce-Zede.

Saint-Julien
There are many successes. The most consistent commune, as always.

Pauillac
Home to three of the 'premier crus', is inconsistent. Clive wrote "I was bored with Mouton-Rothschild".

Saint-Estephe
Chateaux Cos Labory and Lillian-Ladouys stand out.

New wave white Bordeaux and lesser Graves
A great success here.

Graves
(Mainly Pessac-Leognan)

Good results, by and large, in the Graves for the 1999 vintage.

1999 Sauternes
A fine vintage, better than 1998 but not as exceptional as 1997.

Pomerol
Lots of good wines here, and not only at the super-priced level.

Cotes de Bourg
Interesting to see what Louis Mitjaville is doing with his 'new' wines.

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