Both classed growths were given 97-point ratings in The Wine Advocate with Martin writing the Pauillac first growth was “reminiscent of those ethereal wines baron Philippe de Rothschild oversaw during the 1950s”.

Scores were reasonably evenly split between the Left and Right Banks, Petrus, Vieux Château Certan, l’Eglise Clinet, Haut-Brion and Léoville Las Cases were all grouped together at 96-points and Lafite, Pavie, Yquem and Doisy Daëne’s l’Extravagant were all rated 95.

The wines were all tasted at BI’s annual 10 year retrospective tasting in London this spring* but whereas Latour was voted the ‘best’ wine of the horizontal overall, Martin scored it 94 praising it overall but adding he would have preferred a “little more persistence”, a “tad more conviction” and noting it didn’t “transcend” the vintage in the same way the 2002 Latour had managed.

Otherwise, his notes and scores were broadly in line with what others have said of the vintage. He noted that it is a year with, “the unenviable task of following the feted 2005s” and produced wines “neither good nor indeed bad enough to ignite interest and fervour amongst wine cognoscenti.”

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