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Bordeaux 2021 in bottle – whites and right-bank reds

Bouscaut vineyard and chateau

Following on from yesterday’s review of recently bottled left-bank reds, here’s a smaller collection of whites, both dry and sweet, and right-bank reds. See also this guide to our coverage of 2021 bordeaux. Above, Château Bouscaut in Pessac-Léognan.

Julia writes It’s not surprising given the weather in Bordeaux in 2021 that the whites were generally more successful than the reds. For a fuller explanation, see Bordeaux 2021 whites, written in May last year in the light of the en primeur tastings attended by Jancis and James Lawther MW.

Sadly those same weather conditions – in particular frost, hail...