Below are my - and occasionally Julia’s marked (JH) – tasting notes for the wines of Saint-Estèphe, Haut-Médoc and Médoc (grouped alphabetically under those subheadings). Occasionally in this lot, just for fun, I have given both the notes I wrote blind and those I wrote when I knew what I was tasting. (We never get to taste seriously important wines blind alas.)
Background comments appear in italics.
As usual, the wines are listed alphabetically within appellation, ignoring words such as le, la, les, de, du, des, Château and Clos.
+ means that I expect the wine to...