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Bordeaux is buzzing over the 2009 vintage, and after a tasting of all the first-growths, Mouton and Latour clearly have winners in barrel
Posted: Mar 24, 2010 3:00pm ET
I have tasted all the 2009 Bordeaux first-growths over the past two days while on a tasting road trip through Pessac-Léognan and the Médoc, the Holy Grail area for Cabernet Sauvignon in Bordeaux. And, as you probably expected, their 2009s are excellent from barrel. A couple are amazing, notably Mouton-Rothschild and Latour, and here are my notes on them. Montrose and Pichon-Longueville-Lalande also may have made better wines in 2009 than in 2005.
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