Bordeaux 2007 – all of the Médoc

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There are almost as many wines in this collection of tasting notes from the Médoc as in yesterday's St-Emilion tranche: 138. Most of these wines, with the exception of the very grandest, were tasted blind by both Julia and me, sometimes a total of four times with remarkably few discrepancies. 

If St-Émilion's most common failing was hollowness, here it tends to be underripeness, and sometimes a lack of freshness, even if those two aspects may seem contradictory. The best wines here are very cleverly made, but only in that they have made...