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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.

1975 Château Trotanoy

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

RP  95   

1985 Château Trotanoy

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

3 available
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1985 Château Trotanoy

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

1985 Château Trotanoy

Lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1985 Château Trotanoy

Lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1985 Château Trotanoy

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

1985 Château Trotanoy

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

1998 Château Trotanoy

Light capsule condition issue

WS  97   
RP  96   
ST  94+    
JR  15.5   

2005 Château Trotanoy

Light label condition issue

RP  98+    
WS  95   
ST  94+    
JR  18   
2 available
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2017 Château Trotanoy

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

JS  99   
WA  97+    
WS  97   
VN  95   
WE  95   
JD  95   
JR  17   

2016 Château Gazin

WA  95   
JS  95   
VN  93+    
WS  92   
JR  16   

1988 Château Le Gay

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

1988 Château Le Gay

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

1988 Château Le Gay

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

2012 Château Le Gay

RP  94+    
WS  92-95   
VN  89-92   
3 available
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2015 Château Le Gay

Light label condition issue

JS  95-96   
JD  95   
WA  94-96   
VN  93-96   

2013 Château Rouget

VN  90-92   
JS  90-91   

1990 Clos l'Eglise

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

2 available
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2009 Château La Violette

RP  98   
ST  94   
WS  92   

1988 Château de Sales

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; base neck fill; label condition issue

1988 Château de Sales

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

1989 Château Gombaude-Guillot Cuvee Speciale Bois Neuf

Light label condition issue

2000 Château La Croix du Casse

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
2 available
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1982 Château Certan-Giraud

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  90   
2 available
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1982 Château Certan-Giraud

Capsule condition issue; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  90