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2005 bordeaux at 20
A chance to revisit Bordeaux classics from a lauded vintage that are now ready to drink. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 11 October 2025
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Bordeaux 2005 by the bottle in 2025
Berry Bros recently went mad with a well-priced offer of this lauded vintage. See this guide to our more than 50(!) articles about Bordeaux 2005. Above is the handsome, classical...
Jancis Robinson
Thursday 9 October 2025
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How 2003 and 2005 red bordeaux look now
It's tough helping out the Queen with her wine collection. You may imagine that in these pandemic-affected times, it has been difficult for those of us on the Royal Household...
Jancis Robinson
Monday 14 March 2022
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Grrrrr. My old friend Simon Staples, Berry Bros' ebullient sales supremo, has been at it again – huffing and puffing...
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Few of you interested in Bordeaux 2005 will need me to tell you that at long last the important (aka...
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The suspense is almost killing us, isn’t it? The wait for the real heavyweights of the 2005 primeurs campaign, I...
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I have long criticised London wine merchants Armit for offering their wares by the unmixed dozen bottles only but now...
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Last week I wrote about how Nature delivered the potential to make a perfect red wine vintage in Bordeaux in...
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All of these Pessac-Léognan whites were tasted blind, as you can probably tell from the notes. The word in Bordeaux...
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There are some wonderful, wonderful wines here – set to rival the best 2001s. The extraordinary feature of 2005 for...
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Prices of 2005 bordeaux are starting to come out more convincingly than the trickle of early chancers. J P Moueix...
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There should be some real value in this little collection of the wines carrying the appellations Bordeaux, Bordeaux Supérieur, Côtes...
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The 120-plus wines described below include the greatest young St-Émilion I have ever tasted, Cheval Blanc, and some excellent wines...
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And so we move on to the right bank after all last week’s left bank tasting notes and find lots...
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Most years I find tasting hundreds of young primeur samples of bordeaux each spring intellectually fascinating but physically exhausting. This...
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I was very impressed by the number of successful Pessac-Léognans and Graves made in 2005. You’ll find notes on many...
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Battle of the giants between Cos and the under-sale Montrose here – and giant is the word for the proportions...
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Lots of heavy hitters here. Latour has excelled itself again, and yet Lafite is a stunning wine and continues to...
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This was, as usual, a very solid performance though perhaps not as relatively thrilling as in some more difficult years...
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