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2008 Bordeaux Futures

2008 Bordeaux Futures
chateaux have dramatically lowered prices for this excellent vintage !

In Vino Veritas - The 2008 Red Bordeaux
While heading to Bordeaux for my first look at the 2008 vintage, I was worried that at best, quality would be average to above average. With the deepening global economic crisis, I wondered what the point was of putting my nose to the grindstone for 10-12 hours a day for ten long days, not to mention the enormous expense involved in travel, lodging, transportation, etc. Would this be 10 days wasted tasting an unexciting as well as unsaleable vintage?

   I should have known better... It did not take me long to realize that the 2008 vintage was dramatically better than I had expected. It had all the qualities that make an excellent and in some cases, a great vintage so special: exceptionally dark opaque colors, gorgeously ripe fruit, stunning purity almost across the board, great freshness (because it was a cool year), slightly higher acids than normal, and remarkable density as well as concentration. Moreover, one of the significant keys to evaluating quality is the maturity of the tannins. In 2008, the tannins are unusually velvety, even in wines that may lack concentration. By day three I was thinking about how this could have happened. When you look at all the facts (not the rumor-mongering from irresponsible bloggers), it seems clear that after the vinifications were done in late October and early November, something excellent had been produced. The wine producers all knew it, but Bordeaux is always the first to be accused of over-hyping their wines, and the global economic crisis had begun in earnest by November, 2008... The quality of the 2008 vintage turned out to be excellent, with a number of superb wines that are close to, if not equal to the prodigious 2005 or 2000 vintages (two years with many of the best wines I have ever tasted from top to bottom)?
—Robert Parker

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Minimum order is 3 bottles per wine.
Expected arrival Fall 2010 - 2011

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2008 Red Bordeaux

Number of wines found: 33

		Score	Size	Sale
43964	2008 Chateau Angelus - St Emilion	92-94 WA	750ml	119.00
44053	2008 Chateau Blason D'Issan - Margaux		750ml	23.00
44045	2008 Chateau Branon - Pessac	94-97 WA	750ml	75.00
44747	2008 Chateau Canon - St. Emilion		750ml	69.00
43972	2008 Chateau Chapelle La Mission - Pessac	87-88+ WA	750ml	40.00
43971	2008 Chateau Clarence de Haut Brion - Pessac	89-91 WA	750ml	65.00
44362	2008 Chateau Clerc Milon - Pauillac		750ml	45.00
44320	2008 Chateau Clos de L'Oratoire - St. Emilion		750ml	35.00
44129	2008 Chateau Clos Fourtet - St Emilion	92-94 WA	750ml	49.00
44288	2008 Chateau Corbin - St Emilion		750ml	26.00
44289	2008 Chateau Croix Beaucaillou - St Julien		750ml	35.00
44361	2008 Chateau D'Armailhac - Pauillac		750ml	39.00
44050	2008 Chateau D'Issan - Margaux	91-93 WA	750ml	45.00
44127	2008 Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou - St Julien	96-98 WA	750ml	119.00
44187	2008 Chateau Fonbel - St Emilion	88-90 WA	750ml	25.00
44049	2008 Chateau Haut de Pontet Canet - Pauillac		750ml	29.00
44553	2008 Chateau Joanin Becot - Cotes de Castillon		750ml	24.00
44070	2008 Chateau La Confession - St Emilion	92-94 WA	750ml	39.00
43966	2008 Chateau La Conseillante - Pomerol	92-94+ WA	750ml	79.00
44008	2008 Chateau La Fleur Petrus - Pomerol	92-94+ WA	750ml	79.00
44290	2008 Chateau Lalande Borie - St Julien		750ml	25.00
44122	2008 Chateau Lascombes - Margaux	91-94 WA	750ml	50.00
44046	2008 Chateau Lusseau - St Emilion		750ml	26.00
44072	2008 Chateau Malartic Lagravieres - Pessac	91-94 WA	750ml	39.00
46318	2008 Chateau Palmer - Margaux		750ml	179.00
44069	2008 Chateau Pavie Macquin - St Emilion	93-95 WA	750ml	49.00
43968	2008 Chateau Pavillon Rouge - Margaux	90-92 WA	750ml	59.00
44746	2008 Chateau Pichon Baron - Pauillac		750ml	79.00
43979	2008 Chateau Pichon Lalande - Pauillac	94-96 WA	750ml	79.00
44745	2008 Chateau Potensac - Medoc		375ml	13.00
44116	2008 Chateau Potensac - Medoc	90-92 WA	750ml	25.00
44110	2008 Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte - Pessac	93-95 WA	750ml	49.00
44291	2008 Chateau Vrai Canon Bouche - Fronsac		750ml	21.00

 

2008 White Bordeaux/Sauternes

Number of wines found: 2

		Score	Size	List
43973	2008 Chateau Haut Brion Blanc - Pessac		750ml	399.00
43974	2008 Chateau Laville Haut Brion - Pessac		750ml	349.00

 

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