Vini di Bordeaux > 90/100 a prezzi inferiori a 20 Sterline

Di seguito una lista di vini con valutazione > 90/100 da parte dei degustatori di Decanter, dall’ottimo rapporto qualità prezzo ( inferiori alle 20 sterline ).

Buona lettura e buoni assaggi

Roberto Gatti

Château Loudenne, Bordeaux 2011

17.75pts/20 (92/100pts)

Brace yourself. This is sweetness and light aromatically, with notes of candle wax, orange blossom and roasted lime. Like settling onto a freshly laundered pillow. But don’t be fooled – it’s followed up by a steely, intense structure that demands attention, and food. Brilliant with poached salmon but versatile enough to cope with turkey and all the trimmings.

Price £16 Handford Wine, Portland Wine Co, RW Randalls, The Cave, The Vineyard (Dorking)

Drink 2013–2017

Alc 14%

 

 

 

 

 

Château Lafont Menaut, Pessac- Léognan 2011

17.5pts/20 (91/100pts)

This is classy Sauvignon Blanc. Refreshing, expressive and self-assured, there is complexity here in the notes of gunflint and pressed herbs to flesh out the beautiful grapefruit acidity. Lovely texture, length and energy.

Price £16.25 Berry Bros & Rudd

Drink 2013–2014

Alc 13%

 

 

 

Château Grand Faurie, La Rose St-Emilion Grand Cru 2007

18pts/20 (93/100pts)

Mutton. That’s what this needs: a slow-cooked, old-fashioned piece of meat. And a decanter. Because this is proper claret: food-friendly, elegantly mature, gently avuncular. Bags of wine and class for the price. Weaker 2007s have fallen by the wayside but this gastronomic, juicy red has lots of woodsmoke and tobacco complexity to marry with its tannic finesse.

Price £18 Majestic

Drink 2013–2014

Alc 13%

 

 

Château La Grande Maye, Côtes de Castillon 2003

18pts/20 (93/100pts)

Look beyond the hot vintage and lesser-known name to a fabulous wine at a great price. This is your Christmas claret bargain – as long as you appreciate sturdy, carnal, autumnally mature Bordeaux that speaks (eloquently) with a thick country accent and makes a fine match for game. I’ve tasted this, and the excellent 2004, several times lately, and my reaction is always the same: tuck in.

Price £10.90 Justerini & Brooks

Drink 2013

Alc 13.5%

 

 

 

 

Château Lamothe- Cissac, Vielles Vignes, Haut- Médoc 2005

18pts/20 (93/100pts)

Structured, elegantly mature claret from a top vintage, drinking beautifully now. It’s true that there are some feral, bretty tones here but they tie in well with the cigar box, leather and cedar complexity. Muscular but resolved tannins: fine, dense, savoury stuff.

Price £18.69 Coe Vintners

Drink 2013–2014

Alc 13%

 

 

 

 

 

Clarendelle, Bordeaux 2007

18pts/20 (93/100pts)

Another wine that flirts with leathery, animalistic tendencies but you can’t help but be seduced by its lithe, carnal, sleek allure. It’s the Terry Thomas of claret – impeccably presented and with an irresistible, rakish charm. Juicy, insistent, beautifully gastronomic. Enjoy it with well hung game or venison wellington.

Price £19.99 Coe Vintners, Hedonism, Selfridges

Drink 2013

Alc 12.5%

 

 

 

 

Château Lafont Menaut, Pessac- Léognan 2010

17.75pts/20 (92/100pts)

A beautiful wine that is all the more appealing for being understated. Ripe dark fruit, juicy acidity and plush tannins typical of the vintage but with a velveteen texture and energetic lift that is very attractive. Lovely to drink now, but will benefit from a few years in bottle too.

Price £17.30 Tanners

Drink 2013–2017

Alc 13.5%

 

 

 

 

Villa des Quatre Soeurs, Margaux 2009

17.75pts/20 (92/100pts)

I’m an unashamed fan of Luc Thienpont’s ethereal, joyful Margaux wines. His is a genial, weathered face that clearly spends a lot of time in the vineyards – and it shows. There is an almost Burgundian precision to the wines, including this one, which marries a Right Bank suppleness and fruity hedonism with the layers and energy of the Left Bank. Delicious with guinea fowl or turkey.

Price £17.40 Justerini & Brooks

Drink 2013-2017

Alc 13.5%

 

 

 

 

Château d’Aurilhac, Cru Bourgeois Haut- Médoc 2004

17.5pts/20 (91/100pts)

A Marmite wine. Just as properly mature Haut-Médoc wines can be, with arresting aromas of dried figs, peat and soy sauce. The palate is succulent, fine and gently spicy. It cries out for some lamb shank or aged rib-eye steak. Good thing it’s excellent value because it needs drinking up.

Price £12.50 The Wine Society

Drink 2013

Alc 13.5%

 

 

 

Château Teyssier, Montagne St-Emilion 2005

17.5pts/20 (91/100pts)

Sure, it’s old school. But it’s also wonderfully mature claret with complex flavours of dried berries, tobacco and autumn leaves. Serious, sinewy and persistent, it benefits from a plate of charcuterie or mushroom risotto. Lots of wine for the price.

Price £16.25 Oddbins

Drink 2013

Alc 13.5%

 

 

 

Moueix, St-Emilion 2009

17.5pts/20 (91/100pts)

Benchmark St-Emilion with the kind of intensity and elegant maturity that speaks of a first-rate vintage. Floral, graphite and red fruit aromas lead into a fresh, invigorating palate profile with tons of fine firm tannins and plenty of fruity, earthy dynamism. Good food – like a beef fillet with shallot sauce – improves it.

Price £13.99 Marks & Spencer

Drink 2013–2015

Alc 13.5%

 

 

 

Cyprès de Climens, Barsac 2006

17.5pts/20 (91/100pts)

Okay, so it’s pricey for a halfbottle. And the vintage was a mixed bag in Sauternes. But this is drinking beautifully now and its decadent, luxuriant waves of flavour offer a true taste of one of the region’s finest producers in Château Climens. Rich cream and tarte tatin flavours with elegant muscovado maturity. Nectar!

Price £17.90–£19.95/375ml Christopher Piper, James Nicholson, Roberson

Drink 2013

Alc 13.5%

 

 

 

 

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