Thursday 3 June 2010

Top tens – Best values

Posted by Tom Jenkins, Bordeaux Buyer
`Best value` is probably the most interesting and most disputed category in our `top tens`. Value after all adds another level of subjectivity. 31 wines appeared in our lists and not one wine made it into all eight tasters’ selections. Haut Batailley and Clos des Quatre Vents both made the cut for 7 tasters, but failed to achieve the elusive full house.

There were strong showings from Langoa Barton, Lafon Rochet, Phelan Segur, Durfort Vivens, Lagrange, Moulin St George and the highly tipped Saint Pierre, but sadly we were not alone. Robert Parker has positively raved about Saint Pierre and our other surprise recommendation, Malartic Lagraviere. Huge scores from these two will probably push release prices to stratospheric levels...

The same rules apply; 10 points for a first place all the way down to 1 point for tenth position.

Haut Batailley - 45
Clos des Quatre Vents - 40
Langoa Barton - 37
Lafon Rochet - 34
Moulin St George - 31
Lagrange - 28
Phelan Segur - 25
Beychevelle - 15
Durfort Vivens - 14
Saint Pierre - 14
Blason de l`Evangile - 14
Petit Bocq - 12
Chasse Spleen - 12
Cantemerle - 12
Chateau Valade - 11
Grand Puy Lacoste - 10
Brane Cantenac - 10
Pagodes de Cos - 10
Calon Segur - 9
Haut Marbuzet - 7
Tour du Pin - 7
Meyney - 7
Ormes de Pez - 6
Gloria - 5
Grande Maye - 5
Malartic Lagraviere - 5
Clerc Milon - 5
Sociando Mallet - 4
Domaine de Chevalier - 3
Beaumont - 2
Les Fiefs de Lagrange - 1