Bordeaux 2003 – the tasting notes

Below are the tasting notes I think you will be most impatient for, on hundreds of significant wines in the major appellations of the left and right banks of the Gironde.

They are presented by appellation with the Left Bank appellations first, south to north or Margaux to Médoc, and then the Right Bank appellations, with St Emilion followed by Pomerol, Lalande de Pomerol and Fronsac.

Within appellation they are presented alphabetically, ignoring such words as Ch(âteau), Clos, Domaine, de, Le, La, Les and L'. The only exception to this are second wines which are listed immediately following their grander...