### Vintage rating: 15/20 ###
We tested 84 bottles (including seven doubles and three triples) in nine tastings:
- Seven Appellation Finals ((The Graves have been grouped with the Médoc)
- Final B with the winners (and sometimes a few very deserving seconds) of the Appelation Finals
- Final A with the first three of the final B as well as the eight super grands crus: Ausone, Cheval Blanc, Haut-Brion, Lafite, Latour, Margaux, Mouton Rothschild and Petrus
Here are the podium for the Appellation Finals:
Here are the results (six first) for the Final B held in Maussane:
Here are the results (six first) of the A Final, which included the first three of the B Final, as well as the eight classified super grands crus.
Our favorites, with an unbeatable value for money for such an “old” vintage:
- Pape Clément €€€
- Duhart Milon €€€
- Montrose €€€
- Pavie Macquin €€€
- Petit Village €€€
- Léoville Barton €€€
- Haut-Marbuzet €€
- Du Tertre €
The wines tested by Appellation:
Saint-Emilion: Ausone, Beauséjour, Beau-Séjour Bécot, Cheval Blanc, Canon la Gaffelière, La Couspaude, La Dominique, Figeac, La Magdelaine, Pavie Macquin, Trottevieille
Pomerol: Beauregard, La Conseillante, L’église, L’évangile, La Fleur Petrus, La Grave à Pomerol, Latour à Pomerol, Petit Village, Petrus, La Pointe, Trotanoy, Vieux Château Certan
Graves/Médoc:Carbonnieux, Chasse-Spleen, Domaine de Chevalier, Haut-Bailly, Haut-Brion, La Tour Martillac, Pape Clément, Poujeaux, Villegeorge, Smith Haut-Lafitte, Sociando-mallet
Margaux: Brane Cantenac, D’Issan, Durfort Vivens, Du Tertre, Ferrière, Giscours, La Gurgue, Malescot St-Exupéry, Margaux, Rauzan-Ségla
Saint-Julien: Beychevelle, Branaire Ducru, Ducru Beaucaillou, Gruaud Larose, Léoville Barton, Léoville Poyferré, Léoville Las Cases, Saint Pierre
Pauillac: D’Armailhac, Duhart Milon, Haut-Bages Libéral, Grand Puy Lacoste, Lafite, Latour, Lynch-Bages, Mouton Rothschild, Pichon Longueville Baron, Pichon Longueville Comtesse, Pontet-Canet
Saint-Estèphe: Calon-Ségur, Cos d’Estournel, Cos Labory, Haut-Marbuzet, Lafon-Rochet, Phélan Ségur, Montrose
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