Wine: Let the market settle, then go shopping

Matthew Jukes reviews the best of the 2013 Bordeaux.

My tour of the top Bordeaux chteaux this year was enjoyable. The 2013 en primeur campaign has been a strange one. Early reports of the dire quality of the wines were misjudged while this is by no means a great vintage (2009 and 2010 set the bar very high), it is a very enjoyable one.

The weather during the growing season was appalling, but many decent wines were made. I love old-fashioned claret lower alcohol, slimmer-structured, gently oaked reds. There are many great examples in 2013.

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Chteau Lafite Rothschild (1er Cru Pauillac)18.5
Vieux Chteau Certan (Pomerol)18.5
Chteau Haut-Brion (1er Cru Pessac-Lognan)18
Chteau La Conseillante (Pomerol)18
Chteau Ducru-Beaucaillou (2me Cru Saint-Julien)18
Chteau Latour (1er Cru Pauillac)18
Ptrus (Pomerol)18
Tertre Roteboeuf (Saint-Emilion)18
Chteau Ausone (Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Class A)18
Chteau Pontet-Canet (5me Cru Pauillac)18
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Chteau Grand-Puy-Lacoste (5me Cru Pauillac)18
Chteau Rauzan-Sgla (2me Cru Margaux)17.5
Chteau Calon Sgur (3me Cru Saint-Estphe)17.5
Roc de Cambes (Ctes de Bourg)17
Chteau Angludet (Margaux)16.5
Chteau Chasse-Spleen (Moulis-en-Mdoc)16.5
Chteau La Serre (Grand Cru Saint-Emilion)16.5
Chteau Le Crock (Saint-Estphe)16.5
Chteau Desmirail (3me Cru Margaux)16.5
Chteau Larmande (Grand Cru Saint-Emilion)16.5
Matthew Jukes

Matthew Jukes has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books.  

Matthew regularly lectures, judges, speaks at wine conferences and runs masterclass tastings for both corporate and private clients all over the world. Matthew is also the creator of his ground-breaking initiative, the One Day Wine School, an indulgent day of tasting and learning first performed in 2006.

He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and has written a weekly column for the Daily Mail’s Weekend Magazine since 1999. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website, www.matthewjukes.com.

Matthew is one of the world’s leading experts on Australian wine and, with Brisbane-based wine writer Tyson Stelzer, runs an annual competition in Australia to find ‘The Great Australian Red’.  He was made Honorary Australian of the Year in the UK at the 2012 Australia Day Foundation Gala dinner. 

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy.  His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.