Les 5 Premiers Crus Classes (Presentation Wooden Case 10x75cl Price per 10 bottles. Contains 2 bottles each Mouton Rothschild, Latour, Lafite, Margaux & Haut Brion)

Specification

Producer

Les 5 Premiers Crus Classes (Presentation Wooden Case 10x75cl Price per 10 bottles. Contains 2 bottles each Mouton Rothschild, Latour, Lafite, Margaux & Haut Brion)

Region

Bordeaux

Where

Médoc and Graves, Bordeaux

Classification

First Growths (1855)

Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot

Vintage

2002

Case

10 x 75cl OWC

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

LESPRE0210X75

About this wine

The case contains two bottles each of the five First Growths from the same vintage: Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Latour, Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Margaux and Château Haut-Brion. All are Cabernet-based red Bordeaux, Haut-Brion with a higher share of Merlot, and all are made for long ageing, typically needing fifteen years or more to show their best.

About Les 5 Premiers Crus Classes (Presentation Wooden Case 10x75cl Price per 10 bottles. Contains 2 bottles each Mouton Rothschild, Latour, Lafite, Margaux & Haut Brion)

This presentation case brings together the five First Growths of Bordeaux. Four of them, Lafite Rothschild, Latour, Margaux and Haut-Brion, were ranked First Growths in the 1855 Classification, and Mouton Rothschild was promoted to join them in 1973.

Lafite, Latour and Mouton are in Pauillac, Margaux is in the commune of the same name, and Haut-Brion is in Pessac in the Graves, the only estate outside the Médoc included in 1855. Collecting the five together from a single vintage allows each to be compared under the same growing conditions.