Growths

So in the case of Bordeaux's Pauillac commune—home of three of the five First Growths, including Château Lafite Rothschild—lesser-known Fifth Growths from châteaux such as Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Lynch-Bages and Pontet-Canet offer both hedonistic drinking and compelling investment propositions.

A Holiday List of Highly Collectible Bottles Will Lyons 2011

There are notable absentees: Bordeaux's celebrated First Growths, a string of well-known Burgundy estates and some notable Champagnes.

A Holiday List of Highly Collectible Bottles Will Lyons 2011

This great vintage may yield some good values in lesser appellations but unless they are priced at or below 05, the 09 Classified Growths for me will be an easy pass.

Bordeaux 2009: all over but the pricing | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

Over five days that saw more than 5,000 critics, trade buyers and wine professionals descend on the region, we covered all the Classed Growths, a feat which meant that, in some cases, we began our tastings well before 9 a.m.

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The 2008 can be picked up for around €350 a case, while the 2009 is €650—not cheap by any standards, but considerably less expensive than the ludicrously priced First Growths.

A Vintage That Will Age for a Century Will Lyons 2011

It seems that prices for the First Growths will be at 2005 levels, and now that Parker has given his approval, neophytes who have never bought en Primeur before (not just the Chinese market) will plunge in.

Bordeaux 2009: all over but the pricing | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

Can the same be said for the First Growths in Bordeaux?

Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

Charles Simonds: Mental Earth, Growths and Smears Knoedler & Co., 9 E. 70th St., 212 794-0550

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Logic would dictate that the best candidates for fraud would be young vintages of expensive wines that are made in large quantities - the First Growths in Bordeaux for instance.

Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

To my surprise, it was the second wines of the First Growths that tasted better at this embryonic stage.

A Vintage That Will Age for a Century Will Lyons 2011