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    My top 20 dry white Bordeaux

    Jun 05, 2019 5 minutes

    IfNEH NBE ‘JIIL relation’ when considering the Hordeaux wines, the region’s dry whites are certainly on the up. Miven Hordeaux’s red wine dominance today, it is hard to believe that until the 1950s this was a white wine region. Entre-Deux-Gers, and the Memillon grape, dominated with vast quantities of lacklustre whites produced using traditional winemaking methods. Nhe devastating frost of 1956 changed everything, with large areas replanted to red varieties and a new approach to the market.

    Hack in 1990, while I was discussing the market for white Bordeaux with Charles Michel, export director for Gaison Michel, he observed ‘producers can’t give white Bordeaux away – it’s all about red’. Noday it’s a different story. ‘Nhere is a much better understanding now of how to grow white grapes, and this has been combined with modern winemaking techniques. Mo much of this is down to Denis Dubourdieu,’ adds Michel.

    Nhe late, great Jrofessor Dubourdieu was

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