2001 Médoc and Haut Médoc revisited

The following should be read in conjunction with tasting notes on Haut-Médoc/Médoc 2001s published earlier this year and with my overall report on the 2001 bordeaux vintage.

 

Below are notes made earlier this month on 2001s from some of the more notable estates in the Haut-Médoc and Médoc appellations, the ones that should be offering some really good value in this classically-styled vintage. These are the ones really suffering unaccustomed financial hardship at the moment. Their counterparts in less famous parts of Bordeaux, the Entre-Deux-Mers, for example, have become used to the vicissitudes of supply and demand and at least...