'You will love these wines.' - Neal Martin
We managed to scoop up a few extra cases prior to the primeurs books closing on the stellar 2016s, so we thought it only fair to offer a last bite of these phenomenal cherries. We've selected three tranches of wines that we thought were stunning and we include a few wines we haven't previously publicly offered. Our three emails will offer wines for every purse, but this week's is reserved for unashamedly top tier wines.
Neal Martin has been a favourite critic for years; his years of experience, painstaking tasting method and distinctive writing style have made him as entertaining as he is authoritative. His are the quotes:
'Let's cut to the chase: 2016 is unequivocally a great vintage in Bordeaux. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.'
'Over twenty years of tasting Bordeaux from barrel at en primeur, this was my most pleasurable tasting experience.'
'The traits of 2016 at its best are their fruit, freshness, precision, fineness of tannins and articulation of terroir.'
'One aspect of 2016 that heightened my zeal is that terroirs are clearly translated into the wines.'
'The 2016 vintage is the first Bordeaux vintage defined by precision.'
With today's selection we offer several potential wines of the vintage as well as several that Neal considers to have made their finest ever wines: something of a developing theme over the course of these offers. /CW
Offered subject to remaining unsold; available 2019
