Parker has retasted the 2006 vintage, and released his final scores on the wines... and there are plenty of happy people here.
The best result is probably for Chateau Lafite, who has gone to a 97 up from a 93. The wine of the vintage remains Mouton (that was originally 97-100 and is now a 98+). Pape Clement white also got a final 98 from a possible 97-100.
Plenty of wines that were given a range of scores ended up at the top of their range, such as Leoville Les Cases at 95 from 93-95, Rauzan Segla at 93 from 90-93, and Chateau d'Issan going up to 94 from an original 90-93.
The scores suggest again, as has become increasingly apparent with tastings, that the 06 really was an excellent quality vintage that maybe hid its value at first because it followed the 2005. So maybe the Bordelais weren't quite so pig-headed keeping their prices high! But I can't see such glowing results coming next year with the retasting of the 2007s... rapidly becoming the vintage that everyone would like to forget...
By this I mean that the prices were way too high last year, and because there are stocks left both in Bordeaux and abroad, it is becoming a serious sticking point with the pricing of the 2008s. If the owners do what is right and drop prices this year, despite better quality wines, they make the 07s even more unpalatable to buyers. But if they keep the prices high, they run the risk of having another vintage that sits around in storerooms.
