Below are my full tasting notes, scores and suggested drinking dates for the 1998 blind tasting described in fine wine news. Some of these wines represent exceptional value – as I have noted below.
I have divided my notes into right bank wines and the Pessac-Léognans and within these sub-regions I have listed wines in descending order of my preference. Group preferences determined by averaging the scores of all 14 of the tasters which included several notable tasters in the British wine trade, three prominent Bordeaux negociants, James Suckling of Wine Spectator and Steven Spurrier of Decanter magazine appear below...