Bordeaux Tasting at the French Embassy

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Larose Trintaudon - Haut-Médoc 2018

Normally a great value play year after year. I haven’t tried any since the 2016. @Julian_Marshall had a post about 4 sequential vintages of it:

Larose Trintaudon 2014, 15, 16 and 17

I’m organising the wine for my son’s wedding next year. One of the reds I’m considering is Larose Trintaudon. Most of you probably know it, but for those that don’t, it’s a Cru Bourgeois situated a few miles inland from Pauillac and Saint Julien, close to Batailley and Du Glana, I think. Larose Trintaudon is a huge estate, producing something like 1.3 million bottles a year and it’s sold in virtually every supermarket in France. In spite of the vast production, I’ve always found it to be prett…