Producers to look for include Ch teau Margaux , Ch teau Palmer, and Ch teau Brane-Cantenac. Pauillac wines have the same intense fruit, but exhibit a darker color, more garnet than ruby. They also have a slightly metallic hardness known as le go t de capsule , or lead-pencil taste. These are more masculine, forceful wines. Ch teau Lafite-Rothschild .
Estephe wines are full-bodied wines with the same concentrated fruit and famously firm tannins.
Producers to look for include Ch teau Calon-S gur, Ch teau Montrose , and Cos d Estournel. The soil at St. Julien, the smallest appellation of the Medoc contains slightly more clay, and this is reflected in the richer wines that come from this area. Producers to look for include Ch teau Lafleur, Ch teau Petrus, and Ch teau Trotanoy. St. Emilion, because it is the largest appellation in Bordeaux, naturally produces more than one style of wine. Generally speaking, though, St. Emilion wines are rich, round, with concentrated sweet fruit, and low to medium-low tannins.