Bordeaux 2021 – left-bank reds four years on
Wednesday 12 February 2025
This concludes our coverage of this year’s Southwold-on-Thames appraisal of the 2021 vintage. The tasters agreed that this was the least inspiring vintage for red wines since at least 2017. See the Southwold reports on 2021 right-bank reds and the much more inspiring white wines. See also this guide to our coverage of 2021 bordeaux.
In this year’s blind tastings I managed to give my only red-wine score of 18 to a left-bank wine, Château Haut-Brion, a property that was less scathed by the vagaries of the vintage than many others and even managed a decent yield. Several of...
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