Wine Review
2019 Bordeaux Vintage Review: Perfectly Balanced, Rich, and Energetic
After sampling 125 wines, Bloomberg’s wine columnist has everything you need to know about this exciting year.
Chateau Mouton Rothschild, $400 a bottle; Chateau Lafite Rothschild, $525; Chateau Pontet-Canet, $80; Chateau d’Issan $49: Prices for futures of 2019 Bordeaux wines have been rolling out fast and are still coming in.
The region’s en primeur campaign, which is the period when chateaux release prices for the most recent vintage and sell the wines while they are still aging in the barrel, is in full swing. And some of results are the best bargains since the 2008s, which were sold as futures the spring after Lehmann Brothers collapsed.