1905

Bordeaux: The comments of the time were, "rain right throughout the harvest, except the first two and last two days. Perfectly healthy grapes, if wet." The wines were very light but very elegant in their youth, now tired

Bordeaux: Harvest from September 14th. Abundant crop of average quality – the wines were elegant rather than tannic, but very enjoyable. Rain during harvest meant initialy high hopes for the vintage were tempered. Fraud was affecting the wines of Bordeaux, with Nathaniel Johnston, president of the Syndicate des Grands Crus Classés du Médoc reporting that a wine grower in southern France was labelling his wines ‘Médauc’ in an attempt to pass them off as being from Bordeaux.