It’s Bordeaux En Primeur season once again.
Collectors, critics and merchants are busy debating barrel samples, chasing scores and securing allocations that won’t land in cellars for years to come.
But while the fine wine world focuses on what might become tomorrow’s great Bordeaux, we prefer not to forget one important thing:
Some Bordeaux is already drinking beautifully today.
At Museum Wines, we believe the best Bordeaux collections should balance future icons with wines offering immediate pleasure, maturity and genuine value right now, bottles that overdeliver not only on pedigree, but on drinkability.
Which brings us to Château Haut-Breton Larigaudière and Château Cap Léon Veyrin.
These are not speculative purchases.
These are proven wines from estates quietly rising through the Bordeaux ranks, wines Greg Sherwood MW has repeatedly championed for their classicism, precision and remarkable value.
The 2018 Château Haut-Breton Larigaudière, described by Greg as a “seductive temptress” with “classic Margaux elegance written all over it,” offers the kind of polished Cabernet-driven sophistication increasingly difficult to find at this price point.
Then there is Le Créateur 2010, the estate’s special pure Cabernet Sauvignon cuvée, awarded 95 Points by Greg Sherwood MW. A wine built for long ageing, now entering a magnificent drinking window with all the graphite, cassis, cigar box and finely layered complexity mature Margaux lovers crave.
And for those seeking one of Bordeaux’s smartest under-the-radar buys, Château Cap Léon Veyrin 2018 delivers Left Bank character, structure and charm at a price that makes opening a second bottle dangerously easy.
In a season dominated by futures, these are the bottles reminding us why we fell in love with Bordeaux in the first place.
Explore our Bordeaux selections now, and drink well while the rest wait.
60% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot, Bordeaux
93+ Points – Greg Sherwood MW
“A beautifully deep purple-black colour draws you in to reveal expressive aromatics of sweet violets, black currants, stewed black cherries, black plums and an attractive top note of sweet grilled herbs that mixes with hints of black tea, cherry pipe tobacco and a dusty graphite minerality. There is wonderful energy and power in the mouth with all the fruit concentration concertinaed by bright crunchy fresh acids and suave drying gravelly tannins. The oaking smells and tastes suitably expensive but is all in perfect balance for what is a very impressive wine from an excellent Medoc vintage. Drink now to 2036+.” –Greg Sherwood MW.
85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, Bordeaux
97 Points – Decanter | 16 Points – Jancis Robinson MW
“A gorgeous wine, with deliciously ripe fruits including black cherry, blue plums and spice. There’s a huge amount here, in what is a brooding, deep, broad and earthy wine. A Margaux for the hedonists and sensualists.” – Decanter.
100% Cabernet Sauvignon, Bordeaux
95 Points – Greg Sherwood MW
“This pure 100% Cabernet Sauvignon shows a beautifully complex and intricate aromatics of fresh violets, black cherry, dried bay leaf spice, red currants and black plum with hints of tilled earth, black tea and fresh tannery leather. The palate displays a beautiful crunchy freshness and definition with powerful linear tannins and a stony minerality supported by layers of creme de cassis and black berry fruits, a delicate wood spice, freshly brewed tea and delicate herbal notes on the long creamy finish. Drink this classy wine now and over the next 10+ years.”- Greg Sherwood MW.
