Watch last week’s Episode about Saint-Émilion & Pomerol:
Today Julien Miquel explores what you need to know about the wines from the left bank, the famous chateaus of the 1855 Classification, the Chateau Margaux, Mouton-Rothschild, Lafite and many more.
This is a 4-part series to give you all of the essential facts and keys to understand where are the best and most expensive wines around the Bordeaux region, and more importantly why some wines are better than others, what are the key differences in style, age-worthiness and ultimately, price. So, after we looked at the right bank last week with the wines from Saint-Emilion & Pomerol, we look at the best Chateaus from the left bank, investment-grade wines.
All the 1855 Chateaus:
Next week we’ll talk about the sweet Botrytis wines from Sauternes, Chateau d’Yquem, Rieussec, Guiraud and more.
The 20 Most Expensive Wines from Bordeaux, by descending order of average price are:
1- Liber Pater, Graves
2- Pétrus, Pomerol
3- Le Pin, Pomerol
4- Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac
5- Chateau Haut-Brion Blanc, Péssac-Leognan
6- Chateau Latour, Pauillac
7- Chateau Lafleur, Pomerol
8- Chateau Ausone, Saint-Emilion
9- Chateau Margaux
10- Chateau Cheval Blanc, Saint-Emilion
11- Chateau Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac
12- Chateau Haut-Brion, Péssac-Leognan
13- Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion White, Pessac-Leognan
14- Chateau d’Yquem, Sauternes
15- Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion
16- Denis Dubourdieu Chateau Doisy-Daene L’Extravagant de Doisy-Daene, Sauternes
17- Chateau Angelus, Saint-Emilion
18- Chateau Pavie, Saint-Emilion
19- Chateau Lafite Rothschild Carruades de Lafite, Pauillac
20- Chateau Palmer, Margaux
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