Bordeaux-style Red Blend

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Maison Noble Saint Martin / Bordeaux Supérieur This is a firm wine—one with generous tannins and fruit. It has spice and touches of pepper as well as fine acidity and bold red fruits. The combination has produced a wine that will be ripe and ready […]

Country: France / Cuvée des Capucins Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château des Arnauds / Lalande de Pomerol Full of spice from wood aging and generous fruit, the wine is balanced and poised. It has a style to it, the Merlot perfumed with a touch of Cabernet Franc and made rich with its structure […]

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château de Bel / Bordeaux Supérieur Ripe and smoky, this is a warm fruity wine. It has tannins as well as juicy acidity, black fruits and a firm structure in the background. This will be a rich wine when it is ready to drink in 2018.

Country: New Zealand / Private Bin Merlot-Cabernet Sauvignon-Cabernet Franc-Malbec Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Hawke’s Bay Winery: Villa Maria / A crisp, fruit-forward red to pair with a variety of dishes, Villa Maria’s 2009 Private Bin is a mouthwatering introduction to what looks to be a top-notch Hawke’s Bay vintage. Cherry fruit and subtle baking spices […]

Country: US / Proprietary Red Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Washington Winery: Pamplin / Columbia Valley (WA) This Oregon winery sources fruit for its Proprietary Red from top Washington vineyards on Red Mountain, in Walla Walla and in the Horse Heaven Hills. Mostly Cabernet Sauvignon (it could be labeled as such), it packs its rich raspberry, […]

Country: France / Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château Potensac / Médoc Shows smoky new wood and black currant fruit. This is a structured wine, powerful, while preserving just the right balance of acidity. It’s dark and dense in character, yet with great freshness.

Country: France / Goulée de Cos d’Estournel Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Goulée / Médoc A smooth and ripe wine produced by the team of Cos d’Estournel. It is full and rich with black-plum fruits and velvet tannins. With fine acidity at the back, it has kept its freshness. Drink from 2022.

Country: France / Moulin du Château la Clide Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Bordeaux Winery: Château la Clide / Saint-Émilion The wine is tight with tannins and a dense texture. It has plenty of fruit underneath to allow this blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot to balance out. Perfumed and with fine acidity, the wine should […]

Country: US / New World Reserve Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Virginia Winery: Trump / Monticello Dark fruit and violet aromas are muted under opulent notes of vanilla and oak. On the palate, skin-driven, dark fruit flavors combine with rough oak, while chewy tannins linger on the long, bitter finish.

Country: US / Estate Grown Seven Hills Vineyard Perigee Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Washington Winery: L’Ecole No. 41 / Walla Walla Valley (WA) A five-grape, Bordeaux-style blend, it’s still a big, tough, chewy, tannic wine with a chunky, somewhat blocky mouthfeel. Cherry, cassis and wood flavors dominate, and the tannins are quite astringent. Re-tasted over […]

Country: US / Cinque Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend California Winery: La Rusticana d’Orsa / Santa Cruz Mountains Hailing from a hillside estate of hand-tended grapes, this traditional Bordeaux blend begins with a menthol, roasted fennel and cinnamon-touched nose. On the palate, the herbals continue alongside ripening plum and gingerbread cake, followed by a lingering finish.

Country: US / Star Variety: Bordeaux-style Red Blend Washington Winery: Baer / Columbia Valley (WA) Merlot (59%) takes the lead on this blend, which is balanced out by Cabernet Franc. Intriguing aromas of herbs, flowers, spice raspberries, café au lait and barrel spices lead to silky, polished fruit and barrel flavors that linger.