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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.

2015 Château Clinet

Light label condition issue

WA  97   
VN  96   
WS  93   

1998 Château Gazin

Light label condition issue

WS  91   
RP  90   

2010 Château Latour a Pomerol

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WS  95   
RP  92   
ST  91   
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2009 Château Le Bon-Pasteur

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RP  94   
WS  92   
VN  91   
JR  16   

1983 Château Certan-De-May

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

WS  96   

1987 Château Certan-De-May

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

1999 Château Certan-De-May

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1999 Château Certan-De-May

1989 Château Gombaude-Guillot Cuvee Speciale Bois Neuf

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