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...
