A Dutruch vertical

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Château Dutruch Grand Poujeaux is one of those wines that well-educated lovers of Bordeaux have probably heard of but may not have tasted that often. Until the vertical tasting described below, there were just five tasting notes on wines from this Moulis estate in our database of more than 166,000 wine reviews.

Members of The Wine Society may be more experienced than me however because this venerable British wine buying co-op has bought the wine for more than 40 consecutive vintages. This is a close-up of the Society's 1979 purchase ledger (for the vintage 1978; I should imagine it's all...