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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.

1988 Château de Sales

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

2013 Château Rouget

VN  90-92   
JS  90-91   

1998 Château Le Moulin

Light label condition issue

RP  90   

1988 Château Le Gay

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

1988 Château Le Gay

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

2015 La Gravette de Certan

Light label condition issue

JS  94   
JD  93   
VN  92   
WA  90   
WS  90   

2001 La Clemence

Light label condition issue

WS  92-94   
RP  90   
ST  89-91   

2009 Château Feytit-Clinet

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
ST  93   
2 available
Bid

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   

2010 Château Feytit-Clinet

RP  95   
ST  93   
WS  92   

2012 Château Le Gay

RP  94+    
WS  92-95   
VN  89-92   
2 available
Bid *

1990 Clos l'Eglise

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

2 available
Bid *

2019 Château Clinet

JD  98   
WA  97   
VN  94+    
WS  93   
JR  16.5   
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

2012 Vieux Chateau Certan

Capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

VN  96   
WA  95   
WE  95   
WS  94   
JS  94   
JR  18   

2017 Château L'Evangile

WS  97   
VN  97   
JD  96   
WA  95   
JS  95   
JR  15.5   

2004 Vieux Chateau Certan

WS  94   
RP  93+    
ST  93   
JR  15   
6 available
Bid *

2008 Château L'Evangile

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  91   
7 available
Bid *

2008 Château L'Evangile

Light label condition issue

RP  94   
WS  93   
ST  91   
5 available
Bid *

2017 Vieux Chateau Certan

WA  98   
WS  98   
VN  98   
JS  98   
JD  98   
WE  96   
JR  18.5