Bordeaux 2007 – St-Émilion

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Here are our notes on 140 wines from the extensive St-Émilion appellation and a few from the satellites Montagne- and Lussac-St-Émilion. Most of these wines were tasted blind, some of them as many as four times.

As usual in this large and very geologically varied area (see the new map on page 111 of the 6th edition of The World Atlas of Wine) there is a bit of everything in here, not least some very drying oak tannins. The most successful wines were those with real juice in the...