The best Bordeaux wines of 2009

Matthew Jukes picks his favourite Bordeaux wines from the 2009 vintage - and urges you not to forget 2008.

Last week I boarded an Easyjet flight for the world's most important wine region in a mildly cynical mood. I was off to taste three hundred or so 2009 wines from barrel samples. The reason for my cynicism? 2009 is the most hyped vintage since the last most hyped one. The Bordelais are masters at talking themselves up every year.

On arrival I found Bordeaux much busier than last year. The economic situation is a little rosier now than it was and there were far more Americans and Far Easterners than ever before. They were chasing the dream of an immaculate vintage and, in the process, allocations from the many lucky Chteaux struggling to supply enough wine for an ever-growing world thirst.

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Chteau d'Yquem, 1er Cru Superieur (Sauternes)20/20
Chteau Lafite-Rothschild, 1er Cru (Pauillac)19.5/20
Chteau Margaux, 1er Cru (Margaux)19.5/20
Chteau Loville-Las Cases, 2me Cru (St-Julien)19/20
Chteau Pontet-Canet, 5me Cru (Pauillac)19/20
Chteau Latour, 1er Cru (Pauillac)19/20
Chteau Ausone, Grand Cru Class A' (St-Emilion)19/20
Vieux-Chteau Certan (Pomerol)19/20
Chteau Rieussec, 1er Cru (Sauternes)19/20
Chteau Haut-Brion Blanc, Pessac-Lognan19/20
Chteau Pontet-Canet, 5me Cru (Pauillac)19/20
Chteau Loville-Poyferr 2me Cru (St-Julien)18.5/20
Chteau Calon-Sgur, 3me Cru (St-Estphe)18.5/20
Pavillon Rouge de Chteau Margaux (Margaux)18.5/20
Chteau Grand-Puy-Lacoste, 5me Cru (Pauillac)18/20
Chteau Talbot, 4me Cru (St-Julien)18/20
Chteau Haut-Batailley, 5me Cru (Pauillac)18/20
Chteau Labgorce, (Margaux)18/20
Chteau Langoa-Barton, 3me Cru (St-Julien)17.5/20
Chteau Lafon-Rochet, 4me Cru (St-Estphe)2.8
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.