Top 12 Bordeaux Chateaux 👌🍷 Wine Names & Wineries You Need to Know... 

Thanks a lot! You know I'm a big fan of your work, including here on RU-vid, hope to get a chance to meet someday. Take care Madeline and the team. Cheers :-)

Oh, cool! Very Glad to hear it was helpful Eric! Thank you very much for taking the time to leave a note 🙏🙏🥂😃👍Merci

Wonderful, glad you enjoyed. thanks for taking the time to leave a kind note, much appreciated 😊🙏 There's many more videos about Bordeaux wine I made in this playlist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PH_j4jeDK5A.html (and plenty of other wine vids on the channel). Looking forwar dto seeing you around. Santé from France. CHeers 🍷🥂

Excellent Julia, plenty of Bordeaux wine videos on my channel, here all my vids about Bordeaux gathered in a playlist if that's of any interest: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PH_j4jeDK5A.html Looking forward to seeing you around. Santé 🙏🙏😊🥂👍🍷

WendyR tx Wendy 🤗🍷 happy Sunday 🥂

Glad you like them Carl! TY very much for taking the time to send a ind note. Hope you enjoy other wine vids on the channel. See you around. Cheers 🥂🙏🙏😊

Glad to hear it. Glad to have you on board the channel. Feel free to comment, suggest, like and spread the word. Will keep making more wine education videos, it's my passion. Take care and see you around soon 🥂🥂😊👍

Tx for the suggestion man. Montrose and Palmer are still some pretty huge names in Bordeaux. Not easy to get to taste those. But will see what i can do. For Giscours, I did make videos about some of their wines: ru-vid.comsearch?query=giscours Hope this helps? Cheers tx for stopping by 🙏👍😊🍷

@@RU-vidJulien Yes indeed, I nearly choked on my lunch when I heard Montrose referred to a "lessor growth." I fondly recall my days as a novice aficionado of the grape in the 1970's and 1967 Ch. Montrose was my favorite everyday drinker! HUGE wine, with untamed tannins. After airing a bit, it produced a sublime experience. A big thanks to the boys at Wineman's Cellars on PCH in Newport Beach. Ah, those were the days.

Tx mate. Much appreciated. You might want to check out my video series about I made about Bordeaux wines on that other channel I run: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rXdnzVzuOXo.html Loads to learn about Bordeaux there. Does this help? I love Australia. Wish I could go back soon. I made wine on Kangaroo Island a little while ago. Cheers mate

Tx for all of this, feedback and suggestions. Have you watched my video about the classification of the wines from St-Emilion yet: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HbNItY_Cj1k.html ? Might have some of the info you're looking for. As for labeled versus non-labelled bottles, not sure what you're referring to. Is that clean skin wines? Since we don't know where the wines are from, not sure what I could say about them?

@@RU-vidJulien Ty, I have. It was a very honest video! The video was short and honest. I guess if you had to go more into detail about the saint-emillion wines, you would have to group and classify the different wineries(which can become very complex). At least all the directives are mentioned in your video. It is now up to the user to look into what is what and how it all works. The problem mostly isn't the wineries/producers in France, it's the sellers outiside of france. Looking at wines as a total in France, I think the classification that Bordeaux has is a good idea. I have just always thought that it needed more improvements on the class. B or C parts. Not for the ranking of the wineries, but from a perspective for the consumer. Living anywhere else than france(or outside bordeaux, if you have the regional pride thing going on) always make it possible to fall into the "classification B trap!". There are many wines that are non classified and classified under B, that are better than wines in classification B. Vintage/year is one of the biggest factor here. But all in all, TY for a very honest video. btw, isn't there a special class. above A also??

Glad you enjoyed it! Tx for your kind note 🙏 😊 🍷🍷

Merci! Much appreciated. Glad it was helpful! Hope you find other wine videos as useful on the channel. Cheers 🥂🙏🙏

Merci Fernando :) Much appreciated, glad you enjoy the video 🙏🙏🙏😊🥂

@@RU-vidJulien I do. I still have to check on your other videos. I watched some including the champagne pronunciation.

Love how he replied to every comment but yours .

ItIsAGrapeLife cheers Glen 😀

Excellent Barry. Glad to hear it :-) tx for taking the time to leave a kind note. Cheers from france 🙏😃🥂

My pleasure, big thanks to you for letting me know. Glad you enjoyed it and it was useful :-) Cheers

thank you very much man :-) much appreciated 🥂😀🙏 have you found other videos interesting? Just asking to know what sort of videos you enjoy most.cheers from France 👍

Philip Mackewitz merci Philip 👍🏻 great to have you onboard. Thanks much for the support 🥂🥂🥂🙏🏻

Welcome!

Hi Laura, what a shame, this was such a fantastic bottle :( I made a video about how to use a special type of bottle opener called the Ah-so, check it, out, might be helpful for next time: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cpZW012Gvas.html Cheers 😊🍷

Wow man. That sounds fantastic. You know I worked at Chateau Margaux, right? It's remained my dearest wine of all still, so I'm not going to contradict you. And 2005 vintage would have been fantastic. Perhaps 2012 petrus wasn't that great of a vintage, and perhaps too young too? I have to admit, that even though i studied winemaking together with the current winemaker of Petrus, Olivier Berrouet when we were young, I've actually never ever sipped Petrus. Out of reach for me it's remained. I'll have to go there someday and make a video of it 😅 i tried Trotanoy which is a neighbor and same owner and it was amazing. Not quite like Margaux though, I'm with you on this 👍🍷

Have you watched my video at Chateau Margaux yet ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UgTbGiPaibE.html ?

And my video explaining the 1855 classification will probably interest you if you're into top Bordeaux ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-36dcmiNiVZc.html What do you think?

Hi there :) Thanks for your kind words on the video. Appreciated. Wow, it's a big question, and a big responsibility to put me in charge of your anniversary! I'll do my best to give you my thoughts. Yes, Lafite is a fantastic wine. But those 12 at least, are more or less just as good. there's going to be slight variations in style between them, different locations, different terroirs, slightly different winemaking approaches etc. Lafite is very expensive though. You'd be looking at $1000+ a bottle right? For vintages, if it's for drinking, you'd have to go at least 10 years old, if not 15-20. Have a look at the vintage chart here with scores and prices (the vintage tab) to give you an idea of quality/price: www.wine-searcher.com/find/lafite+rothschild+pauillac+medoc+bordeaux+france/2010#t5 2010 would be fantastic, although perhaps still a little young. Maybe 2006 for for better value and a wine that will be a little more mature and ready. Now, there are some similar chateaus that you can probably get a bottle of for say $300-$400 a bottle rather than $1000. Do you think you'll be able to appreciate the difference in quality? I understand there's the prestige of the label of a Lafite as well, plus the other aren't going to be just as exceptional...

@@RU-vidJulien Thanks so much for the very informative reply. I know you are a very busy channel, so to take the time to reply to me is very kind of you. I checked out your list, and the 2006 Chateau Lafite might be the way I want to go. Yes, very pricey. My anniversary is a year away, so I will have time to save up for it by saving a little money each month. I like your idea about the 300 or 400 dollar wines as well. I will admit I don’t have a very developed palate, although over the last 10 years, I have explored quite a few wines. But to discern any real difference, maybe the 300 or 400 dollar wines of the other chateaus would suit me just as well. So you gave me lots to think about until my anniversary. In the meantime, I’ll be saving those pennies, hehe. Thanks once again for your kind reply, and I hope you have a great day. 🍷

@@onewomanandsomesongs Excellent, glad it's useful. Yes, have a think about the $300-$400 Chateaus around Pauillac, although I guess we only live once so maybe it's worth making the Lafite dream become a reality :) A big part of enjoying a wine, is not to set your expectations too high as well... Take care, and enjoy 🍷

@@RU-vidJulien I agree with you here. After thinking about this further, I do think a Chateau Lafite might be wasted on my palate for now. I would prefer to graduate a bit with the 300 or 400 hundred dollar wines first. Who knows in several years, I might be able to appreciate the Chateau Lafite a bit better. I need to experience so more wines before that. I am not discounting myself, but I believe it’s wasteful to purchase a great wine until you can fully appreciate it. Thanks for all your help once again. I learned a lot. Take care as well. :)

@@onewomanandsomesongs. . . So, a couple of years after your enquiry, ‘one woman’ and a year or more after your anniversary, which claret and vintage did you decide on?.. and ‘how was it for you?..’

I did, here it is ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xgBXKZ8NGLg.html

Sounds like you know your Pomerol really well 👍😊 cheers Jakub have you seen my videos explaining Bordeaux here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rXdnzVzuOXo.html ? Santé🍷

. . . Another one nobody else has heard of?.. Which vintage?, how much?, and how was it?..

hi there, the literal meaning of Chateau is 'castle' but it's used broadly to designate a 'winery' in the wine world, especially in France. Chateau can also designate a palace, or a mansion, a large house, particularly =the old ones that used to belong to nobles or bourgeois. Hope this helps :)

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Thank you I want to know about blind testing.. What is basic things to learn blind testing???

Tx Fred, you're right. Chateau Mouton Rothschild was upgraded, that's probably the better word indeed. Merci :-) Cheers

As you've seen, this very video is about the top 12 TOP estates overall in Bordeaux, the Premier Grands Crus of Médoc, the Premier Grand Crus category A of Saint-Emilion, and 2 Pomerols that are the Rolls Royce of the appellation, one notch above the rest in price and reputation, le Pin and Pétrus. That's all. Of course, there's many more fantastic estates in Pomerol, as there is in the other areas. Here's all my videos about Pomerol Chateaus: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sHQeZb0v7J4.html

@@RU-vidJulien Thank you for the response and the content. Useful to me.

that's because I lived in New Zealand for 6 years, and I tend to absorb local accents like a sponge :) Cheers!

. . . That’s one nobody has heard of?.. How was it ?

Absolutely :) Cheers

@@RU-vidJulien. . . “ List them “. And define what … ‘ good Bordeaux ‘ means for you.

First growths is the English translation for Premier Grand Cru Classés, which is the highest classification level in this French Bordeaux Chateau classification, it designates those chateaus as top estates in the area.

@@RU-vidJulien It's not a good translation. Even the google translator doesn't translate it well. The word "growth" simply doesn't fit here.

I'm afraid i don't JC

“ No “.

Thanks for your comment Paulo, but there's probably more than 150k different wines made in France, so it's probably hard to generalize this much, don't you think?