Bordeaux-style Red Blend

Country: France / Cuvée J-J Lesgourgues Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Loumelat / Bordeaux This is a complex wine that offers firm tannins and rich fruit. It has weight, density and a strong sense of ripeness. With balance and depth, it’s a wine with good aging potential. Drink from 2015.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château La Clarière Laithwaite / Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux While structured and firm, this is a ripe and juicy wine. Its texture has some minerality, lending an edge to intensely youthful acidity. As the wine ages, all these elements will integrate well, so drink from 2016.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château des Demoiselles / Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux Dry, firm and tannic, this is a wine with great potential. It has weight, ripe berry fruits and a solid character. Wood aging shows lightly, allowing the ripeness of the fruit to dominate. Drink from 2016.

Country: France / La Grande Dame du Château de Lavagnac Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château de Lavagnac / Bordeaux Supérieur This is an attractive, aromatic wine, full of fruitiness and soft tannins. There is a strongly juicy element with black currant fruits adding freshness. There is a touch of spice from wood aging. […]

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château d’Aiguilhe / Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux Lean and austere, this is a firm, medicinal and herbal wine that’s still very young. Red berry fruits, along with drying tannins and spice from wood aging hint at its aging potential. It’s best to wait until 2016.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Peychaud / Côtes de Bourg Dark in color, this is a bold, spicy wine. It has firm tannins that contrast well with the dense black fruits and acidity. The combination makes for a wine that promises to age well—rich and with a fine smoky aftertaste. […]

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Hourbanon / Médoc Aging in wood for 18 months has brought out the richness of this generous wine. It has black-currant acidity that is balanced by the tarry tannins and smoky character. Rich and now in equilibrium, this wine is ready to drink.

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Bardins / Pessac-Léognan The wine shows the firmly tannic structure of the vintage. It is dense, packed with dark fruits and dry tannins that are slowly developing. That makes for a rich, black-fruited wine, concentrated and needing to age further. Drink from 2018.

Country: South Africa / Fusion V Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Stellenbosch Winery: De Toren / Bold, dark and concentrated, this blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Malbec, 10% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc and 9% Petit Verdot still shows some youthful restraint on the nose and palate, suggesting this is a wine best enjoyed after 2018 […]

Country: South Africa / MR de Compostella Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Stellenbosch Winery: Mvemve Raats / A blend of 28% Cabernet Franc, 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Malbec, 18% Petit Verdot and 10% Merlot, this is a big, bold and powerful wine, with superb balance and a firm, concentrated structure that promises great long-term aging. Dense […]

Country: US / Meritage Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot-Malbec-Petit Verdot-Cabernet Franc Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Virginia Winery: Breaux / Virginia This smells dark and bold, offering Port-like aromas of chocolate ganache, buttercream frosting, brown spice and sun-baked fruit. Hearty and toasty, the palate packs plenty of muscle in the form of strapping tannins and supporting acids. Pair this […]

Country: US / Straight de Barrel Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend California Winery: HammerSky / Paso Robles Coming in an oddly shaped, squat bottle reminiscent of the Wild West, this unfiltered wine bursts with blackberry, purple flowers and turned loam aromas. On the palate, deep black currant fruit is accented with peppery spice, graphite and a […]