2009 Bordeaux – 94-100 points Robert Parker
Robert Parker’s 2009 Bordeaux scores now released
“In short, 2009 is the greatest vintage I have tasted in Bordeaux since 1982, of which it is a modern-day version, but greatly improved.”
Robert Parker
This week Robert Parker released his scores for what he considers the greatest Bordeaux vintage in the past 50 years. This will likely be your last opportunity to purchase some of the best wines of the vintage, all wines below have scored 94-100 points from Robert Parker
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The legendary wines of Chateau Cos D’Estournel – back to 1986.
It is with great delight that I offer you the legendary wines of Chateau Cos d’Estournel;
six vintages back to 1986.
Hi From Matt
When I passed the Master of Wine tasting exam in 1998, the red wine paper featured five vintages of Cos d’Estornel from 1989 to 1993 and I correctly identified the wines as coming from a ‘second growth Medoc estate’. After tasting several recent vintages last week at dinner with Jean Guillaume Prats, President and Director General for Cos d’Estournel, I am in now in no doubt that Cos is without doubt the leading estate in St-Estéphe, clearly making First Growth-quality wines, some of the greatest wines of Bordeaux today.
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2009 Bordeaux – Robert Parker names his “wines of 1st growth quality”…minus 1st growth prices
2009 Bordeaux – Robert Parker’s “Magical 20”
“I have chosen estates that produce wines of first growth quality…Consequently, they are under-valued and very smart acquisitions.”
Robert Parker
Hi from Matt,
Considered by some to be the most significant event benchmarking Bordeaux Chateaux since the original 1855 classification, last week Robert Parker lead a Grand Tasting of what he describes as “The Magical 20″ – twenty Bordeaux Chateau that he considers to be of “First Growth Quality”. As Parker said where the tasting was held; “I have chosen estates that produce wines of first growth quality, although technically not first growths. Consequently, they are under-valued and very smart acquisitions.”
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