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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.

1982 Château La Conseillante

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  94   
ST  93   
WS  92   

1989 Château Clinet

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; label condition issue

RP  100   

2016 Château Clinet

JD  99   
WA  97   
VN  94   
WS  93   

2018 Château Clinet

JD  99   
WA  97+    
JS  96   
VN  95   
WE  95   
JR  16   

2010 Vieux Chateau Certan

JS  100   
RP  99   
WS  98   
ST  96+    
VN  94-97   
JR  18.5   

2014 Vieux Chateau Certan

VN  97+    
JD  97   
WA  96   
WS  96   
CT  93.5   
JR  16   

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

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   

2010 Château Trotanoy

RP  98   
WS  98   
ST  96   

1986 Château L'Eglise-Clinet

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

RP  92   

2005 Château Le Gay

Light label condition issue

RP  95+    
WS  93   
ST  92   
JR  17   

2011 Château Latour a Pomerol

VN  90   
RP  88-90   

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

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   

2020 Château Feytit-Clinet

Light label condition issue

JD  98   
VN  95   
JS  95   
WA  94-96   
CT  93.5   
DE  94   
JR  16   

1986 Clos Rene

Top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  94   

1998 La Clemence

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

CT  91.1