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Bordeaux 2002 en primeur
Please read my scores out of 20 and likely drinking dates with extreme caution. In most cases they are based on blind tastings within appellation of samples presented by the producers themselves. These wines are very young (the vintage was later than usual) and we have no way of knowing how the final wine will taste once it is bottled in more than 12 months' time. The likelihood (and hope in many cases) is that many will continue to put on flesh in barrel over the next few months. In certain cases - all the first growths, their associated wines, and most of the super seconds - their owners refuse to allow samples off the premises so,...
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