With en primeur week having taken place in the last full week of April and with the early releases already flooding out of Bordeaux in what is threatening to become a rather hectic en primeur campaign, it was always likely that the releases would get ahead of my capacity to write up appellation-by-appellation profiles. So, on the eve of what seem destined to be a series of historic releases from Saskia de Rothschild, make or break for the reputation of this vintage on the primary and secondary market, let me give you a preview of my tasting notes for the releases scheduled for 2nd May. A note on the ratings This year, as is now my habit, I have again decided to provide an indicative rating for each wine alongside the published comment. All such comments and ratings are necessarily subjective (they cannot be anything else when one thinks about it). I would urge you to look at the two together and, if anything, to privilege the comment over the rating. My aim is more to describe the wine in the context of the vintage, the appellation and recent vintages of the same and similar wines, rather than to judge the wine per se. The ratings, of course, reflect my subjective evaluations and relative preferences between wines. Your palate is likely differ from mine. I hope that my comments give you at least enough information to be able to recalibrate my ratings and, in so doing, to align
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