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Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux
Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux · France
Fact sheet
- Type
- Other
- Country
- France
- Region
- Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux
- Appellation
- Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux
- Body
- full
- Acidity
- medium
- Tannin
- high
- Sweetness
- dry
Food pairing
red meats · game · hard cheeses · grilled meats
Rated vintages
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201591 pts
Initially firmly tannic, this opens to reveal fine blackberry fruit and fresh acidity. It's a generous wine, the wood aging giving tannins and spice while the delicious fruit offers a rounder, smoother side. Drink from 2020.
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201484 pts
This Merlot/Cabernet Franc blend is a tight closed wine showing tannins rather than fruit. It will remain this way.
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201284 pts
The wine is perfumed, spicy with dense tannins. It has a hard-edged structure, tough with the ripe fruit still underneath. Vines are an average of 14 years old.