Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts

I posted this on the UK wine forum last night and got a huge response, so I thought I would replicate that here. In the UK forum Bordeaux hardly gets a look in and burgundy is clearly king of the castle, with notably strong showings by German riesling, Spanish rioja and some South African wines.

I was definitely an outlier with my top ten - by volume/number of bottles:

1. Leoville Barton
2. La Conseillante
3. Figeac
4. Mouton
5. Lynch Bages
6. Latour
7. Produttori del Barbaresco
8. Ducru Beaucaillou
9. Leoville Lascases
10. Lafite

What is in your top ten?

!. Meyney
2. Cantemerle
3. Sociando-Mallet
4. Giscours
5. Gruaud Larose
6. Labegorce
7. Tour St. Christophe
8. Lafite Rothschild
9/10/11. Chasse Spleen / Corbin / Lynch Bages

The way I keep records, it is too hard for me to compute. In Texas only, probably my top four are

1. St Innocent
2. La Lagune
3. Louis Jadot
4. Domaine Drouhin

By producer, not individual bottlings:

1. Lynch Bages
2. Krug
3. Prum
4. Haut Bailly (tie)
4. Leoville Barton (tie)
6. Conseillante
7. Montrose
8. Produttori del Barbaresco (tie)
8. Pichon Comtesse (tie)
10. Talbot (tie)
10. Palmer (tie)
10. Haut Brion (tie)
10. Giscours (tie)

Chateau Montelena
Chateau d’Aiguilhe
Cos d’Estournel
Pichon Lalande
Pichon Baron
Malescot St-Exupery
Francois Chidaine
Grand Puy Lacoste
Leoville Poyferre
Pontet Canet

Mine is surprising to me, but I am drinking more ready Bordeaux recently.
1-Peter Michael, mostly Chardonnay
2-Aubert
3-Morlet Family
4-Doennhoff
5-Pride Mountain
6-Abreu
7-Zind-Humbrecht
8-Quilceda Creek
9-Shafer
10-E. Guigal

Harry, Peter Michael just missed my list. I like their chards and Peggy absolutely loves them. Just got a case in today so it would now slot in at #10.

My top ten in order

Ridge ( Monte Bello)
Ch Montelena (Estate Cab)
Ch Lynch Bages
Ch Calon-Segur
Ch Leoville Barton
Ch Giscours
Ch Pichon Baron
Ch Beaucastel
Ch Montrose
Dom Perignon

My top ten (can you tell I like Chardonnay and Riesling?)
Aubert
Peter Michael
Kistler
Falkenstein
Prum
Giscours
Martin Mullen
Le Gay
Abreu
Schafer Frohlich

Brian, I think my wife’s palate and yours are very well aligned!

David, She has taste, after all, she married you!

DavidG wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 11:41 am Brian, I think my wife’s palate and yours are very well aligned!

I’ve been buying more white wines than reds at my age. With my diet now, Chardonnay and Riesling fit best

1. Leoville Barton
2. Dom de Chevalier
3. Langoa Barton
4. Sociando
5. Clarke
6. Ch Chamirey- Mercurey
7. Malartic Lagraviere
8. Tignanello -Antinori
9. Giscours
10. Canon - Calon Ségur

Jeanfred

I think that I have failed to hold up the high standards of BWE. Of my top ten producers, only one is from Bordeaux.

1. Felsina
2. Frantz Chagnoleau
3. Produttori del Barbaresco
4. Domaine Barraud (tie)
5. Pontet Canet (tie)
6. Domaine du Cayron
7. Camus-Bruchon
8. St. Innocent
9. Lignier-Michelot
10. Il Poggione

I bought a case of the 2022 Felsina Berindenga chianti, Jon, for $19, it is a more elegantly styled effort than usual but I liked it a lot, Jimmy Suckling and I give it 92+ points, especially when you factor in the QPR.

Lopez de Heredia
Produttori del Barbaresco
Lynch Bages
Domaine Pavelot
Tenuta Di Capraia
Louis Michel
Calon Segur
Branaire Ducru
Domaine de Chevalier
Francois Buffet (Tie)
Henri Boillot (Tie)