Compared to 2006 and 2007 the 2008 dry white wines of Bordeaux are inferior but that does not mean they are not very good. They do not possess the flesh power or richness of the 2006 and 2007 but they reveal precise intensely aromatic personalities lighter bodies and more noticeable acidity. These remain among the world's most underrated world-class dry white wines. I will provide full tasting notes once they are in bottle but following are the dry whites I tasted along with their approximate scores.

Striking aromas of currants sweet oak and toasted brioche are followed up here by deeply fruited wholly like-minded flavors whose early plumpness and clear bent to ripeness remind just a bit of top-flight Cabernet from closer to home. Its latter-palate structure however is very much that of younger claret and if arguably a little grippy and austere at the finish just now this is a wine with great places to go.