Bordeaux en primeur: Haut-Médoc 2016 wines

This beautiful château is one of the first major properties encountered heading north on the Route des Châteaux. Situated in a woodland setting, this 94-hectare...

Classic in style, with savoury and spicy notes of leather, grilled meat and tobacco, countered by cherry, plum and pomegranate. Slightly chunky and dry, with...

Straight from the first nose we feel the extraction, the drama, the confidence. This is clean and crisp through the mid-palate, with crushed blackberry, liquorice,...

Inky black in colour, with a beautiful graphite and black fruit nose. This is undoubtedly a great Sociando this year, with precise yet juicy graphite...

Investments at this property have increasingly paid off over recent vintages. This is brooding and a little subdued at the moment, but is packed with...

Closed right now, a good sign that this has the structure for ageing. This is a serious wine with spiced cassis and blackberry fruit, fresh...

A broad-shouldered Haut-Médoc that feels true to the vintage, fleshed out with cassis and blackberry fruits and confident tannins, traces of heat through the mid-palate...

This is a beautiful, well-regarded wine offering great consistency, replete with smoky bacon, tar, and coffee bean flavours. It is marked by oak, but sexily...

A lovely Camensac full of plush, sculpted tannins and a ripple of cassis fruit. This closes down a little on the finish; maybe the fruit...

Rich black cherries and cedar on the nose, followed by some touches of blackberry leaf that suggest the fruit is ripe but in no way...

A rich style which impresses right from the off, with clear fruit definition and good body. It's a separate bottling from 30ha of vines in...

Very well judged, this has juicy red cherry fruits, with those ripped Médoc tannins on full display without being at all drying. I really like...

A super-reliable, good quality name in the Haut-Médoc category. Ground coffee flavours run right through the extremely elegant black fruits, liquorice and charcoal, with a...

Clear austerity here; this is a wine that you would be extremely happy to own because it has persistent, sappy black-fruit flavours with a mouthwatering...

Antoine Moueix has delivered a highly enjoyable wine with bright, sappy fruit, from vines up in the commune of Begadan. I really like the rich,...