The Best Wines of the Right Bank of Bordeaux

The weighted up to date rating of the estates of the right bank of Bordeaux (red wines)

In December 2018, I published the results of a large-scale research of the Best Wines of the Left Bank of Bordeaux. I analyzed 18,000 ratings of professional wine critics and journalists as well as 89,000 user ratings of wines from 1982 to 2017 to form a weighted up to date rating of the estates on the left bank of Bordeaux (red wines).

I promised to continue the research and today I am happy to present you the respective weighted rating of wines of the right bank using the same methodology.

But first, a little bit of history.

The right bank of the Gironde River is primarily the two wine-growing villages of Pomerol and St. Emilion. They are surrounded by many other satellite villages, which also produce wines, but the principal estates, which reputation has made the right bank famous all over the world, are concentrated in the first two.

The smallest of the great red wine regions of Bordeaux, Pomerol produces some of the most expensive, dizzying and glamorous wines in the world. In doing so, Pomerol remains the only major Bordeaux appellation in which there has never been a formal rigid hierarchy of quality. When the…