2009 Bordeaux Wine buying guide for the best 200 wines of the vintage with Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews and special buying tips from this sublime and uniquely styled Bordeaux wine vintage.
This vintage report from 2009 Bordeaux covers the top 200 2009 Bordeaux wines from all the top Bordeaux wine appellations ranging from St. Estephe, Pauillac, St. Julien, Margaux, Pessac Leognan, Pomerol, St Emilion and more. These 2009 Bordeaux tasting notes and comments were recorded from June 23 to July 11, 2010 in Bordeaux.
The 2009 Bordeaux tasting notes are arranged by appellation from north to south, from St. Estephe to Pauillac, St. Julien, and Margaux through Graves and over to Pomerol, ending in St. Emilion. That is the order in which the 2009 Bordeaux wines were tasted as well.
2009 Bordeaux is an important vintage for consumers to take note of. Many of the best 2009 Bordeaux wines are stunning in quality and offer a unique, ripe, opulent, sensuous style. The wines are deep, round, rich, ripe and filled with glycerin. The fruit, skins, seeds and stems achieved phenolic ripeness, but 2009 Bordeaux is not a consistent vintage.
The northern Medoc, Pauillac and St. Estephe produced stunning 2009 Bordeaux wines. On the Right Bank, Pomerol was much more successful than St. Emilion where many 2009 Bordeaux wines seem to lack freshness from a lack of acidity that allowed some wines to feel flabby.
While considered expensive when the 2009 Bordeaux wines were first offered, the subsequent vintage, 2010 Bordeaux was much more money. The very high prices being asked for 2010 Bordeaux forced prices for numerous 2009 Bordeaux wines to rise to meet the current level of demand.
To read about 2009 Bordeaux wine tasted in bottle: 2009 Bordeaux Wine In Bottle Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews
The following tasting notes, reviews and ratings for 2009 Bordeaux are for wines tasted in barrel:
- 2009 St. Estephe Bordeaux Wine Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews and Buying Guide
- 2009 Pauillac Bordeaux Wine Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews and Buying Guide
- 2009 St. Julien Bordeaux Wine Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews and Buying Guide
- 2009 Margaux Bordeaux Wine Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews and Buying Guide
- 2009 Pessac Leognan Bordeaux Wine Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews and Buying Guide
- 2009 Pomerol Bordeaux Wine Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews and Buying Guide
- 2009 St. Emilion Wine Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews and Buying Guide
- 2009 Satellite Appellations Wine Tasting Notes, Ratings, Reviews and Buying Guide
- 2009 Right Bank Value Wines From Derenoncourt tasted in bottle
- 2009 Left Bank Value Wines From Derenoncourt tasted in bottle
To read interviews with producers conducted during the 2009 Bordeaux harvest 2009 Vintage and harvest information
To read a detailed summary on the 2009 Bordeaux vintage conditions, please see 2009 Bordeaux Wine
