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In Bordeaux, there are mainly two major worlds of wine: Crus Courses, these “categorised wines” that had been first established in 1855, and Crus Bourgeois, which displays wines from throughout the Medoc area that are one step down. There have all the time been many extremely regarded wines within the Cru Bourgeois classification, and the classification has been mired in controversy: In 2003 it was dramatically reorganized and pared down, and in 2007 it was utterly annulled after a high-profile lawsuit. Cru Bourgeois got here again in 2010, revamped once more, and in 2020 it was but once more redesigned and cut up into three tiers, Crus Bourgeois, Crus Bourgeois Supérieurs, and Crus Bourgeois Exceptionnels, each reflecting an more and more larger high quality stage. The classification now covers eight communes within the better Medoc space.
In a web-based tasting with newly elected Crus Bourgeois President, Franck Bijon, a handful of journalists tasted a pair of Cru Bourgeois wines, one from the entry-level Cru Bourgeois stage, and one from the middle-tier, Cru Bourgeois Superieur, each from the 2018 classic. Let’s see how they fare.
2018 Château La Tonnelle Haut-Médoc Cru Bourgeois – Iconically earthy, this wine rolls throughout the palate with notes of forest flooring, licorice, brambly blackberries, and a cranberry observe on the end. Evenly natural and touched with dried flowers, the wine finishes with a delicate chocolate component. B+ / $20
2018 Château Laffitte Carcasset Saint-Estèphe Cru Bourgeois Superieur – Brighter fruit is clear from the beginning, providing notes of tart cherries and darkish plums filtered by some graphite and extra of that basic earth. A contact of cranberry and some dollops of chocolate pop on the size, acidic end. A- / $30
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2018 Château Laffitte Carcasset Saint-Estèphe Cru Bourgeois Superieur
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