(Decanter) - Bordeaux's top wine consultants give professional advice to hundreds of estates in the region and beyond, but how about going straight to the source? Here is a list of top consultants and the châteaux that they own.

Which châteaux are owned by top Bordeaux wine consultants?

At this time of year, wine consultants here are flat out getting everybody else’s properties ready for the Bordeaux en primeur parade.

Since the endless stream of questions over phenolics, sugars and tannin counts in the lead up to harvest, they have been busy in cellars checking on the progress of the vinification and most crucially assisting in the blending sessions of châteaux across the region. These begin in December in some estates and go right through until March (with a few on the Right Bank such as Château Troplong Mondot saving their final blend until just a few months before bottling, but still needing to decide 99% in time for the primeurs). The 2016 vintage was a relatively late one for blending, as result of late harvest and late malolactic fermentation, which means many of these round-table sessions were only completed a few weeks ago.