Britain's biggest fine wine trader is currently pushing hard its offer of second wines from Bordeaux top châteaux in the much-vaunted 2000 vintage. (See below for details of that offer.)
But the current, February, issue of La Revue du Vin de France publishes the results of a fascinating blind comparison of second wines with the better crus bourgeois from the 2000 vintage which proves a walkover for the crus bourgeois. Scores go from one and half to five stars and not a single second wine makes it into the top two categories of five stars (Sociando Mallet) and four...