Southwold 2018s – left-bank reds
Thursday 10 February 2022

The second of our three-part report on this massive blind tasting. See this overview, tasting notes on right-bank reds and whites and this guide to our comprehensive coverage of the vintage. The new Château Lynch-Bages is shown above, although 2020 was the first vintage vinified there. I'll be writing more about the tasting as a whole on Saturday.
The 120 tasting notes below are grouped by appellation, roughly from south to north. You can jump to each appellation using the links below.
Within each group the wines are...
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