Bordeaux 2009: A Vintage for a Lifetime (FREE)

My cameraman put together a promotional video for my 2009 Bordeaux report, which I just posted today. It’s chilled and fun, but also gives you insight to my weeklong tasting in the region.

I hope you enjoy it.

As I say in the car driving up the Medoc to some tastings, “I love Bordeaux in the morning.” The short video includes scenes from Cheval Blanc, Lafite-Rothschild, the new winery at Clerc-Milon (when I say, “Let’s go taste some wine.”)

I love it when Bruno Borie, the owner of Ducru-Beaucaillou, calls the 2009 “a Beyonce vintage!” Of course, my excitement tasting the 100-point Vieux-Chateau-Certan was pretty expressive…"ffffffffff!"

Even a vertical tasting at Margaux’s Brane-Cantenac gave me a number of surprises, although the 2009 was the best of the tasting of the ten most recent years.

Latour is 100 points. I think it is the 1959 reincarnated. A quick glimpse of me tasting the 100-point Cos d’Estournel with a happy estate president Jean-Guillaume Prats in the background says it all. And the last shot of me tasting the 2009 Petrus isn’t bad, but I didn’t give it a perfect score.

The 2009 vintage for Bordeaux is the best modern vintage ever. It’s a vintage that we will covet and enjoy for the rest of our lives.

If you are a premium subscriber, read my indepth tasting report on 2009 and review the close to 300 tasting notes. If you don’t subscribe, try a free one-day pass. I hope you subscribe afterwards.

There will be plenty of videos from Bordeaux over the next week from my 2009 tasting in January. Plus, there will be other tastings, and a lot more.