The tastings of the 2019 Futures (Primeurs) from Bordeaux, with the lockdown and absence of the 6.000 international buyers, were delayed in June. With this exceptional relocation, e-tastings and tastings start again. If the general atmosphere expected a price drop of 20%, we can already note a drop of between – 16% (Lafite) and – 33% (Palmer), compared to 2018. We can already confrim that the 2019 vintage will promise to be a great vintage.

« Si tu ne vas pas à Bordeaux, Bordeaux ira à toi ! » – VK

This Bordeaux marketing campaign began with intensity, and with confirmed interest in this vintage, in white as in red, and the successive outings at a sustained pace, with beautiful surprises every day. Most of the wines have a good balance and already give promise of a great vintage. In an unprecedented way, the red wines present themselves with a beautiful maturity and a great aromatic freshness, with a stylistic definition which is situated, at this stage, between 2015 and 2016 vintages. As for the white wines, they appear balanced, sapid , as in the case of the red wines, we marvel at the great length of the wines on the finish – which seems to be another characteristic of this 2019 vintage. The quantities are already exhausted for certain wines (Pontet Canet or Carruades de Lafite, for example). This campaign is, at this stage, probably one of the densest we have known in Bordeaux for the last decade, leaving buyers with less time than usual for reflection.

UGCB in Paris : June 24th 2020

We will update our selection of Primeurs, in June and July, during the tastings.

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Tasting at Duclot in Paris : June 5th 2020
Tasting at UGCB in Paris : June 24th 2020
Other tasting at the office in Paris : June and July 2020

SAINT-ÉMILION
Château La Gaffelière 98/100
Château Clos Fourtet 98/100
Château Troplong Mondot 98/100
Château La Dominique 97/100
Château Trianon 97/100
Château de Ferrand 96/100
Château Fombrauge 96/100
Château Soutard 96/100
Château Canon la Gaffelière 96/100
Château Dassault 96/100
La Mondotte 96/100
Château Grand Mayne 96/100

POMEROL
Château l’Evangile 98/100
Château Le Bon Pasteur 97/100
Château Fleur Cardinal 97/100
Château Beauregard 97/100
Château l’Église Clinet 96/100
Château Clinet 96/100
Château Petit Village 96/100
Château de Sales 95/100

LISTRAC – MÉDOC
Château Fourcas Hosten 95/100

MOULIS-MEDOC
Château Chasse Spleen 95/100

HAUT-MEDOC
Château La Lagune 98/100
Château La Tour Carnet 96/100
Château Lanessan 95/100
Château Sociando Mallet 95/100

MARGAUX
Château Giscours 96/100
Château Kirwan 96/100
Château Lascombes 96/100
Château Marquis de Terme 96/100
Château du Tertre 95/100
Château Brane-Cantenac 95/100
Château Cantenac-Brown 95/100
Château Prieuré Lichine 94/100

SAINT-JULIEN
Château Lagrange 96/100
Château Beychevelle 96/100
Château Branaire-Ducru 95/100
Château Gloria 95/100
Château Léoville Barton 95/100
Château Léoville Poyferré 95/100
Château Talbot 95/100
Château Langoa-Barton 94/100
Château Saint Pierre 94/100

PAUILLAC
Château Lafite Rothschild 98/100
Château Pontet Canet 98/100
Château Calon Ségur 98/100
Château Grand Puy Ducasse 98/100
Château Pichon Comtesse 97/100
Château Duhart-Millon 96/100
Château Lynch Bages 96/100
Château Lynch-Moussas 95/100
Château Batailley 94/100
Château Clerc Millon 94/100

SAINT-ESTEPHE
Château Cos d’Estournel 98/100
Château Lafon Rochet 96/100
Château Ormes de Pez 96/100
Château de Pez 96/100
Château Haut Batalley 96/100
Château Meyney 95/100
Château Phélan Ségur 95/100

PESSAC-LÉOGNAN
Château Haut Bailly 97/100
Château Pape Clément 97/100
Château Smith Haut Laffite 97/100
Domaine de Chevalier 96/100
Château Larrivet Haut Brion 96/100
Château Malartic Lagravière 96/100
Les Hauts de Smith 96/100
Château Latour Martillac 96/100
Château Carbonnieux 96/100
Château Brown 94/100

BLANCS

GRAVES
Château Pape Clément 100/100 « avec une grande précision et une explosion aromatique ! »
Domaine de Chevalier 100/100 « avec une grande pureté et une explosion aromatique ! »
Chateau Malartic Lagravière 97/100
Château Latour Martillac 96/100
Château Smith Haut Laffite 96/100

SAUTERNES
Château Doisy Daene 99/100 « avec une explosion aromatique de miel, de pêches … »
Château Rayne Vignaud 99/100  » « avec une explosion aromatique de miel, de fleurs blanches … »
Château Suduiraut 96/100
Château Guiraud 96/100

LISTRAC-MEDOC
Château Fourcas Hosten 96/100

Up dated : July 17th 2020