Bordeaux-style Red Blend

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château La Branne / Médoc While the wine’s aromas are all about wood and smoky toast, it proffers reassuring hints of fruit on the palate. However, it is still an over-oaked wine that will likely never have enough fruitiness.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Blaignan / Médoc This wine is lean and stalky, with firm, dry tannins that don’t give much room for fruitiness. It will be ready to drink from 2017.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Caville / Bordeaux From the east of the Bordeaux region, this light and juicy wine has attractive, forward acidity and the gentlest of tannins. Fresh and fruity, it is ready to drink.

Country: France / Cuvée Fashion Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: De Luze / Bordeaux This soft, ready-to-drink wine is all about black-currant fruitiness, with only the lightest of tannins. Juicy, fresh acidity finishes an attractive wine.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Seguin / Pessac-Léognan This wine is dry, dark and packed with too many tannins and not enough fruit. A strong, tough character is the dominant feature and it is tough to see how this will broaden out.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château la Garde / Pessac-Léognan This wine is not balanced, with wood and acidity opposing each other. It has spice, high toast flavors and stalky black currants. Although it could have potential, it is likely to remain tough. The property is unusual—133 acres in one block.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Haut Lagrange / Pessac-Léognan This unbalanced wine is caught between acidity and wood. It is hard to see how well this will develop. Owner Francis Boutemy, an inventor, created the “Bout’mobile” which glides seated pickers along rows as they cut clusters that are dropped directly […]

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Fonfroide / Bordeaux Light in color, the wine is equally light in flavor–a soft, gentle wine with only hints of tannins. Fruity without much depth, it is ready to drink, .

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Fleur la Mothe / Médoc Tight and stalky, this wine has smoky red-berry fruits and a strong layer of acidity. Still young, it will certainly soften, although it is likely to remain light and lean. Drink from 2018.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Bardins / Pessac-Léognan This wine is lean, austere with high acidity that leaves fruit well behind. It is structured and dry, only hinting at black-currant freshness. This third-generation family estate also hosts monthly musical and tasting events and sells fruit, vegetables and honey.

Country: US / The Dissident Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Washington Winery: Mark Ryan / Columbia Valley (WA) Cabernet Sauvignon makes up 75% of this wine, with the balance Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot. Aromas of smoke, herb, red and black fruit and spice are followed by plentiful dark-fruit flavors. It delivers a sense of […]

Country: France / Voluptabilis Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Southwest France Winery: Château Tournelles / Buzet This is a second wine of Château Tournelles. Soft and generously ripe, it has attractive tannins that just give the bright fruit a support. The wine, a blend of Bordeaux grapes typical of this appellation, is ready to drink.