Thiswas a successful tasting, perhaps surprisingly, with plenty of consistency and reliability on show, as well as clear vintage and stylistic signatures. ‘The quality is there and you can really see the importance of the vintage,’ said Vincenzo Arnese, who commented on the ‘solid average performance’ with ‘not too many high-scoring wines but also not too many low-scoring’.
‘It’s reassuring to see what is considered a low-price category performing well and offering such drinkability,’ he added.
For Daphne Teremetz it was a ‘much better tasting than expected’ with ‘wines that have lots of approachability and are offering such pleasure now’.
SEDUCTIVE CHARACTER
Despite initially very challenging weather – a wet winter and spring with critical mildew pressure – the 2018 vintage in Bordeaux was highly successful thanks to the right amount of heat, sunshine and water arriving when it was
