Every spring in Bordeaux the they have an En Primeur tasting for wine buyers and writers. I don’t know too much about it except our friends George and Gail of Fine Wines of Stockton go every year to select the wines they will later import for us to taste and buy. It is often called a barrel tasting although the majority of wines are in bottles. The Chateau’s bottle wine that is their best idea of what the final blends will be and so it may change slightly before it is bottled for sale. These are pretty young wines and are usually quite tannic.
Gail just sent me an email saying they were now tasting the 2011 and are also able to taste some of the 2010 wines they tried last year when they were there. When they return I will sit down with them and write a more in depth article on the subject and also on their impressions of the 2011 Bordeaux.
