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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

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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.

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The best wines of the 1905 vintage

Name Tb Producer Location
1 Verdelho Madeira 97 Pereira d’Oliveira Madeira, Portugal
2 Le Chambertin 96 Louis Jadot Burgundy, France
3 Château La Conseillante 96 Château La Conseillante Bordeaux, France
4 Château de Rayne Vigneau 95 Château de Rayne Vigneau Bordeaux, France
5 Verdelho Reserva 94 D'Oliveiras Madeira Madeira, Portugal
6 Pereira d’Oliveira 94 Pereira d’Oliveira Madeira, Portugal
7 Charmes-Chambertin 92 Louis Jadot Burgundy, France
8 Château Margaux 92 Château Margaux Bordeaux, France
9 Lafite-Rothschild 87 Château Lafite-Rothschild Bordeaux, France
10 Marques de Riscal Reserva 87 Marqués de Riscal Rioja, Spain
11 Château Pape Clément 86 Château Pape Clément Bordeaux, France
12 Château Gruaud-Larose 81 Château Gruaud-Larose Bordeaux, France
13 Château Latour 0 Château Latour Bordeaux, France
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