At Winefinder's Bordeaux tastings, one always looks forward to taste the older vintages of the wine estates’ (châteaux's) wines. It gives an insight into how good the wine estates’ wines can become with a few years of aging.

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The best older wines of the Bordeaux tasting:

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Château Lafite Rothschild, 2003, red dry blended wine, Pauillac, 4,5 NJP of 5,0 NJP (94 points of 100 points). Winefinder's price: 16,995 SEK including VAT and excise duty

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Vintage 2003 was a very hot vintage in Bordeaux with widely debated quality. The question here was, the question here was, can one of the most prestigious and the most famous wine estates (châteaux) in Bordeaux (one of four châteaux awarded the Premier Cru Classé classification at the 1855 French wine classification) deliver a wine from the 2003 vintage that is still vibrant and good? Yes, Château Lafite Rothschild proved again that even when vintages are far from good, it produces brilliant wines. Château Lafite Rothschild 2003 is nothing short of magnificent! With 20 years behind it, it is clearly noticeable that there is no primary fruit in the wine anymore. However, the wine is in a perfect maturation phase right now and can be drunk with great pleasure now. Wonderfully elegant open aroma with black currants, plums, wild raspberries, cedar, coffee and tobacco. The flavour is complex and very well balanced with perfect ripeness, good acidity, fine tannic structure and a long, long aftertaste. Château Lafite Rothschild's vineyards consist of 103 hectares planted with 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. The wine consists of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot and the remaining 5% of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot

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Château Léoville Poyferré, 2015, red dry blended wine, Saint-Julien, 4,0 NJP of 5,0 NJP (92 points of 100 points). Winefinder's price: 1,695 SEK including VAT and excise duty

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As usual, Château Léoville Poyferré delivers at the highest level. Château Léoville Poyferré has developed into my/our favourite of the three Léoville-wine estates (the other Léoville castles are Léoville Barton and Léoville Las Cases). The 2015 vintage is dark fruity, complex and still young, has an unusually substantial tannin structure for Léoville Poyferré. It is already drinkable, but I would probably wait at least 10 years before I would start opening the bottles. Very good! The grape blend consists of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc.

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Château La Conseillante, 2018, red dry blended wine, Pomerol, 4,0 NJP of 5,0 NJP (92 points of 100 points). Winefinder's price: 4,495 SEK including VAT and excise duty

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Both vintages (this and 2022) of La Conseillante steps into the top list. Hard to spit this wine. A grape blend of 83% Merlot and 17% Cabernet Sauvignon gives a fantastic aroma of dark fruit with plums, blackcurrants and blackberries in the driver's seat. Add to that cedar, sweet spices and tobacco. A wonderfully smooth tannin structure with fresh acidity contributes to the wine's elegance. Château La Conseillante 2018 is still young and will benefit from aging, but it can also be enjoyed now.