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Pomerol

Pomerol is the smallest of Bordeaux’s red wine producing regions, with only about 2,000 acres of vineyards. Located on the east side of the Dordogne River, it is one of the so-called “right bank” appellations and therefore planted primarily to Merlot. Pomerol is unique in Bordeaux in that it is the only district never to have been rated in a classification system. Some historians think Pomerol’s location on the right bank made it unattractive to Bordeaux-based wine traders, who had plenty of wine from Medoc and Graves to export to England and northern Europe. Since ranking estates was essentially a marketing ploy to help brokers sell wine, ranking an area where they did little business held no interest for them. Pomerol didn’t get much attention from the international wine community until the 1960s, when Jean-Pierre Moueix, an entrepreneurial wine merchant, started buying some of Pomerol’s best estates and exporting the wines. Today the influential Moueix family owns Pomerol’s most famous estate, Château Pétrus, along with numerous other Pomerol estates. Pomerol wines, primarily Merlot blended with small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, are considered softer and less tannic than left bank Bordeaux.

2007 Château Clinet

Light label condition issue

RP  91   
ST  90+    

2011 Château Clinet

Light label condition issue

RP  92-94   

1981 Château L'Evangile

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1981 Château L'Evangile

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1981 Château L'Evangile

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1981 Château L'Evangile

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

2021 Château L'Evangile

Lightly elevated cork

JS  97   
WA  94   
VN  94   
JD  94   

2021 Château L'Evangile

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

JS  97   
WA  94   
VN  94   
JD  94   

2011 Chateau Le Pin

1-bottle Lot, Wood Case, 1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue

WS  95   
RP  94-96   

1986 Château L'Eglise-Clinet

Lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill

RP  92   

1990 Château Le Gay

Light label condition issue

WS  93   

2005 Château Le Gay

Light label condition issue

RP  95+    
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  17   

1961 Château Latour a Pomerol

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  94   

2011 Château Latour a Pomerol

VN  90   
RP  88-90   

1987 Château Le Bon-Pasteur

Light capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1979 Château Certan-De-May

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

RP  93   
WS  90   

1988 Château Certan-De-May

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

RP  92   

1988 Château Certan-De-May

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill

RP  92   

1988 Château Certan-De-May

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  92   

1990 Château Certan-De-May

RP  91   
WS  91   

1985 Château Rouget

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1985 Château Rouget

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1985 Château Rouget

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1990 Château Petit Village

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
RP  90   

1967 Château Bellegrave

Capsule condition issue; depressed cork; top shoulder fill; heavy label condition issue