Médoc 2003 – the exceptional vintage
To my knowledge and to this day, no report on young Bordeaux wines ever related the simultaneous presence in the taste of two forces usually considered as mutually exclusive: tannic complexity on the one hand, and aromatic freshness on the other.
Up to now, when you had tannic complexity, overripe aromas threatened and the advocates of classical...
Jean Marc Quarin on the Médoc in 2003
I have already published a brief note of this Bordeaux-based wine critic's notes on other appellations' performance in the exceptional vintage of 2003. Here, briefly, are his aperçus on the all-important Médoc, dated 28 October 2003.
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