Does Bordeaux provide the best QPR wines in the world right now?

[Vince_T]

David, FWIW, there was a thread about this where @Julian_Marshall reviewed the 2017 favorably:

Château Jean Faure - St.Emilion 2017

When is a Saint Emilion not a Saint Emilion? When it’s like this one! If, like me, you stopped buying Saint Emilions after 2008, sold all your 2005s and migrated to the Loire in search of freshness, this one is for you. I should however explain right away that it is not a “proper” Saint Emilion at all. In 2017, there were frosts much like the ones that are afflicting vineyards right now, so the entire Merlot crop in the Jean Faure vineyard was lost. As a result, the wine was made with 95% Caber…