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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 Petrus

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

MB  *****   
WA  96   
WS  96   
RP  93   
ST  93   
JR  18+    

1989 Petrus

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  100   
ST  95   
WS  94   
JR  18.5   

1982 Château La Conseillante

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

RP  94   
ST  93   
WS  92   

1989 Château La Conseillante

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  92   
MB  ***/*   
4 available
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1989 Château La Conseillante

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  92   
MB  ***/*   
2 available
Bid

1989 Château La Conseillante

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  92   
MB  ***/*   

1982 Vieux Chateau Certan

Very top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

RP  93   
ST  92   
JR  18.5   
WS  91   

1982 Vieux Chateau Certan

Light label condition issue

RP  93   
ST  92   
JR  18.5   
WS  91   

1982 Château Lafleur

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

RP  100   
WS  99   
ST  98   
JR  19   

1982 Château Lafleur

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

RP  100   
WS  99   
ST  98   
JR  19   

1982 Château Rouget

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

1982 Château Certan-De-May

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

RP  93+    
WS  93   
ST  92   
MB  ****   

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

1989 Château Gombaude-Guillot Cuvee Speciale Bois Neuf

Light label condition issue

1988 Château La Pointe

Light label condition issue

1989 L'Enclos

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

3 available
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1989 L'Enclos

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue