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In this video, I am going to challenge five things many of us still get wrong about the legendary French winemaking region Bordeaux.
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**CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO:
0:00 Learn About Wine
0:45 No. 1 – Bordeaux is only about expensive investment wines
2:25 No. 2 – Bordeaux is only red wines
4:15 No. 3 – Bordeaux wines are hard to get
6:30 No. 4 – Only Aged Bordeaux is worth drinking
7:56 No. 5 – Bordeaux is old-fashioned
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11 Comments
After training for the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup, my eyes were sharp for the reds and sweets. When visiting Bordeaux, the dry whites blew me away! There is so much to the region: from centuries of large estates managing properties, passing estates from one generation to another keeping tradition and with growing innovation… it kind of became my passion in wine. My "hot-take" is that even "bad vintages" are not bad, they are just earlier drinking. So, people who think they are bad is because they had the misconception you mentioned about Bordeaux being only to be aged
Bordeaux is undergoing now adays "de-Parkerization" and going back to their roots.
What makes me reconsidering them again.
Ah! A new video on my favourite subject! Bordeaux
Robert Parker said great Bordeaux is great young and his 1982 prediction was spot on.I always drink great vintages young and ignore poor vintages.
Looking at my cellar, 25% of my bottles are from Bordeaux, 70% of those are red and 30% are sweet, with an average age of 12 years. I should try more of the dry whites it seems, I only have one bottle. I do admit I don't really drink them young, I don't recall the last time I opened a Bordeaux bottle (red or sweet) that was less than ten years old.
Yes Bordeaux is not on the restaurant lists in Scandinavia, maybe a Ch. Palmer but the rest is Bourgogne. I drink Bordeaux both red and whites withfriends who also enjoy wine (very important! 😉 ) Loads of good "second" wines to drink early – i.e. Alter Ego 🍷
Good Bordeaux regardless of price still requires years of cellaring. For me it doesn't just improve. It needs aging to be enjoyable. Other regions produce wines much more accessible in their yourth.
Straight pop and pour. Just did that on Canon 2019 and it drinks beautifully! Availability is indeed pretty tough at reasonable price. Most of the time just get them from UK/ex château and wait 5-6 months for sea shipping.
I have about three dozen bottles of classified growths in my cellar (about 10%) evenly split between grand vin and second labels. The question of affordability is in the wallet of the beholder.
While I have not had any of the first growths in at least ten years, I continue to enjoy Bordeaux on a pretty regular basis. I will drink the second labels as I wait for the grand vins to age.
Great Sunday morning No Sediment video as always!! I do have a few Bordeaux bottles, but this video has revealed to me that I have been neglecting them based on the learned belief that they need more age. In reality I need to open a couple and enjoy some now. I do enjoy many wines, but I think I get a little more excited when I am shopping for Bordeaux!! Thank you for reminding me that it is ok to drink some of them young! Although I have never spent more than $100 for a bottle, I still feel like I have wine royalty in my wine refrigerator with what I do have!!! Cheers!!!🍷
I feel like a dirty old man if I open a young Bordeaux.