In 2011 Bordeaux is refocusing on wine drinkers with what we expect to be keen pricing throughout and some astoundingly good dry and sweet whites worthy of particular note.
Gus and Stewart of our Fine Wine team have tasted hundreds of wines from Bordeaux's 2011 vintage in order to be able to highlight the real gems and find the right wines to match your tastes. To assist you in your choice, they have prepared comprehensive tasting notes plus a vintage review each, available to view and download in PDF format below.
Stocks change on a daily basis. For the latest availability, please check below, or contact Gus or Stewart in the Fine Wine team on 0845 194 7801 or at finewine@laithwaiteswine.com.
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See all wines > - Bourgneuf, Pomerol (£250 per 12 btls)
- Capbern-Gasqueton, Saint-Estephe (£135 per 12 btls)
- Chantaloutte, Pomerol (£130 per 12 btls)
- Cos d'Estournel, Saint-Estephe (£600 per 6 btls)
- Goulee, Médoc (£175 per 12 blts)
"If I had believed the doom mongers this year I probably wouldn't have got on the plane, but I am very pleased that I did."
"The top wines are very impressive indeed."
"It is, to my mind, more exciting and more engaging than the 2008s."
Matthew Jukes -
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"The top reds are racy and well-structured wines with very good fruit and bright acidities."
"It's hard to make comparisons, but 2011 to me seems better than a number of recent years including 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, and 2002. I also think the quality is better than 1999 and 1996."
James Suckling -
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" ...tasting 2011s was more fun than I thought-despite the unusually mediocre summer, the wines are ripe, deeply colored, very aromatic, generally quite pure, medium weight, and with higher acids than the two great years of 2009 and 2010...the bottom line is that the vintage is better than I expected...." (erobertparker.com - on Mark Squires' blog, March 2012)
Robert Parker -
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..."some surprisingly impressive reds and exquisite whites, more importantly some very keen prices released so far"
"The dry and sweet whites are outstanding, while the reds do vary in their quality, but among them there are some excellent, food and cellar-friendly wines."
