2009 Coufran, Haut-Médoc

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Ryan Moses

Ryan Moses

K&L Buyer

Review Date: 06/2026

One of our all‑time best‑selling bottles of Bordeaux is back in stock. Coufran has been a go‑to for us for years, but we’re especially fond of this 2009—a generous, complex, perfectly aged gem at a remarkable price. From the northern Médoc near Saint‑Estèphe, Coufran leans heavily on Merlot, earning it the nickname “the Pomerol of the Médoc.” That plush, Merlot‑driven charm is on full display here, capturing everything that has made the 2009 vintage so beloved. Now fully mature yet still packed with plenty of stuffing and structure to cruise through the next decade, this is the kind of bottle that keeps us—and our clients—coming back time and time again.

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Gary Westby

Gary Westby

We have a few house favorites when it comes to Bordeaux here at K&L, and the 2009 Coufran, Haut-Médoc confirms why we love this property. For the Haut-Medoc, this wine has a huge proportion of Merlot at 85% and just a touch of Cabernet Sauvignon at 15%. In its youth, the wine had a big, ripe, plumy nose, but was still very elegant in the mouth. It reminded me very much of old fashioned Pomerol; medium bodied, pure, racy Merlot without the extraneous sugar and oak. At the price, too much of this wine was probably consumed too young, but the patient will now be rewarded with a great experience at a very small price.

Notes

At the very top of the Haut-Médoc, embedded in a sea of gravel just next to the Gironde River north of St-Estèphe, sits the anomaly of the Left Bank: Château Coufran, the "Pomerol of the Médoc," so-called for its high propensity of Merlot vines in a region where Cabernet reigns supreme. While practically all of its Left Bank neighbors are making structured and powerful clarets, Coufran continues to make softer, silkier, classically tailored Right-Bank-style wines. Owned by the Miailhe family since 1924, the wine has been prized by those in the know for its early approachability and fantastic value, which is part of the reason it’s been a staple of K&L’s Bordeaux department for decades. Not only does the wine historically drink well at a younger age, it evolves beautifully over a five to ten year period. The 2009 is currently in a gorgeous spot, showing secondary development and complexity beyond the primary fruit of its youth.