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Cru Bourgeois Night – the tasting notes

Julia Harding
Julia Harding MW , Jancis Robinson

So how did those crus bourgeois taste at the tasting being prepared by the team in this picture? 

Tuesday, 2 July 2019
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Jancis writes As reported here last week, we had a fine time at our first tasting event devoted to Bordeaux, comparing pairs of wines from 23 selected crus bourgeois châteaux: one current vintage and one more mature one. The tasting has already inspired quite a bit of comment on our Members' forum from attendees. 

We chose the producers and it was up to them to nominate the vintages. Our aim was to see how well these wines, so much cheaper than crus...