Bordeaux-style Red Blend

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Donjon de Bruignac / Bordeaux With considerable acidity, this wine shows as much black currant fruitiness as it does structure. Fruit on the palate is accented with just a touch of toast and light tannins. This is an attractive wine for early drinking.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Recougne / Bordeaux Supérieur This is an austere wine that’s tough on the palate and with high acidity. The black currant fruitiness is still developing, so the wine shouldn’t be drunk before 2016.

Country: France / Réserve des Côteaux Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château de Ricaud / Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux Obviously wood aged, this wine’s dryness comes from the attenuating character of the barrels. That leaves little room for lean fruit flavors. Maybe it will soften, but the wood is always going to be dominant.

Country: France / Mouton Cadet Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Baron Philippe de Rothschild / Bordeaux Here is a concentrated wine that has dense tannins and acidity. Black currant freshness offers lively pleasure already, but should intensify in fruitiness in two years.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Pavie Decesse / Saint-Émilion From the vineyard on the slope above Château Pavie, this is a beautiful, juicy and ripe wine. It has a mineral character with great swathes of black-currant fruit. This is a very fine wine, well delineated, ripe and with a delicious […]

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Latour-Martillac / Pessac-Léognan Tightly structured, this is a dense wine. Packed with dry tannins, it is starting life as a firm wine. It is equally rich in fruit, a panoply of black plums and red currants. Drink this concentrated wine from 2026.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château la Grâce Dieu / Saint-Émilion This is a deliciously balanced wine. Spice from the wood aging makes a happy contrast with the black-currant fruit and acidity. It is elegant and with great fruitiness. The wine, with its tannic base, will age well. The estate is […]

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Duhart-Milon / Pauillac This is a structured wine that still has serious layers of ripe fruit and rich tannins. The black currant from the Cabernet Sauvignon is balanced by the jammy richness of the delicious Merlot. It’s an impressive wine that continues the progress of […]

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Capbern / Saint-Estèphe Packed with the dark tannins and structure of Cabernet Sauvignon, this wine, produced by the team of Calon Ségur is intense, concentrated and dark. It has a firm structure, solid and with a luscious aftertaste. The acidity of the year just shows […]

Country: US / Stella Mae Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Washington Winery: Sparkman / Yakima Valley The sister wine to Ruby Leigh, this Cabernet-based blend is sourced principally from Red Mountain vineyards. It opens with scents of violets and moves into a firm palate mixing cassis, herb and iron shavings. Excellent structure cellaring through 2025.

Country: France / Le Roi Pépin Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Les Vignerons Réunis de Monségur / Bordeaux Produced from organically grown grapes, this soft wine has red fruits that miss much definition, only hinting at some stalky acidity. It is ready to drink.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Landereau / Bordeaux Clairet Dark pink in color, this full wine offers tannins as well as crisp red fruits, giving it structure and a firm texture. The wine blends nearly all Bordeaux grapes: Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Drink it chilled, like a […]