Bordeaux vs Brunello di Montalcino: A Sommelier’s Brutally Honest Verdict After Two Full Bottles

Aged Margaux Bordeaux vs $199 Brunello di Montalcino — a certified sommelier drinks BOTH full bottles in a brutal wine fight, and only one survives.

In this Bordeaux wine review and Brunello di Montalcino wine review, I put a 2010 Château des Eyrins Margaux (16 years in bottle, from the legendary 2010 Bordeaux vintage) against the 2019 Salvioni Brunello di Montalcino “La Cerbaiola” — a tiny artisan Sangiovese producer making just 12,000 bottles a year. French wine vs Italian wine. Cabernet Sauvignon vs Sangiovese. Aged wine vs young wine. There are no ties.

This is a “drink wine to” video — wine tasting for beginners and collectors alike. Pour two glasses of something completely different and taste along with me as I walk through how to taste wine like a sommelier: sight, nose, palate, and my full Whole Bottle Review methodology. No snort, taste, and spit critic scores here — we drink every glass and track how each wine evolves across the entire bottle, building your wine tasting mental database in real time.
What you’ll learn in this wine education deep dive:

How to read a wine’s age from color and rim (Bordeaux vs Brunello side by side)
What the 2010 Bordeaux vintage means and why critics call it the vintage of the century
Why Salvioni is one of Italy’s most respected traditional Brunello producers
How Cabernet Sauvignon ages by transformation while Sangiovese ages by deepening
My Nostradamus wine predictions — and the final whole bottle scores after two full bottles

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