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Top Bordeaux wines for Christmas: vintage by vintage

We have selected some excellent Bordeaux wines from the 90s and 2000s - plus top vintages of the 80s - that will be drinking well this Christmas. Do you have any of these wines in your cellar? See what our experts have to say about them.

Bordeaux reds with some bottle age are an excellent companion for Christmas food, although beware of anything still carrying an over-abundance of tannin. Below, Decanter experts have picked out superb wines from the 1990s and 2000s, plus some older choices from the ’80s.


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