This was the theme of this year's doctors' association annual wine dinner, which was held a couple of days ago. The sub-theme could well be the opposite bank. Apart from the welcome drink which is a Cremant de Bordeaux (and therefore non geographical) all the other wines are from the opposite bank of what is more "traditional", though truth be said, the Right Bank per se is hardly lesser known, although I deliberately avoided the lesser appellations of the Medoc.
The Right Bank wines include both a white and a red from Cote de Blaye (I'm sticking to the old nomenclature for this piece), a Cote de Castillon, a Canon Fronsac, a Lussac St Emilion and a Lalande de Pomerol. The sweet wine comes from Loupiac which is on the opposite bank from Sauternes and Barsac, but actually physically in an area which would otherwise be known as Entre Deux Mers.
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