Today's Bordeau Tasting (Trade Event)

[wdonovan]

Maybe they're just made as drink-me-now wines with soft tannins and nothing to really hold them together. The thing that disturbs me though is the Reignac. This is the only 03 on your list I know and from past experience (like the 2000) it had more tannin than a Chinese tea factory. Blindfolded I might guess it to be a Pomerol with years and years to go. You say smoky and that's definitely a trait of aged Reignac but so soon? I just hope they are not moving toward drink-em-this-weekend wines. I hope even more that what you saw is a function of low end wines and not a trend in Bordeaux style for the (nearly) new millennium.