This Special Limited Edition Collection comes in custom hinged OWC and includes 1 bottle each of the following wines never before packaged together: Brane Cantenac 2019 - 96 DE / 94-96 VM / 93-95+ JD / 93-94 JSCos...
This pair of Special Limited Edition Collection Cases comes in custom hinged OWCs and includes 1 magnum each of the following wines never before packaged together: Brane Cantenac 2019 - 96 DE / 94-96 VM / 93-95+ JD /...
94 Points It was with much anticipation that I tasted Chateau Mouton Rothschild’s Aile D’Argent 1993. This is the third vintage of the renowned Chateau’s white wine and made from young vines...
97-98 JS / 95 DE / 93-95 WA / 92-94 JD / 91-93 VM A very exotic Aile d’Argent with dried-mango, fresh-pineapple, and sliced-lemon aromas and flavors. Full-bodied and very ripe, yet it’s framed by bright acidity...
94 DE Cinnamon spice on the nose, with a patisserie edge to the fruits that gives a rich, creamy impression. As ever with the Palmer stable of wines, you can pick out the individual flavours clearly, with careful and...
93 JS / 90 WA / 90 JD Unique aromas of cherries, ash and grilled meat. Full body with juicy tannins and round texture. Delicious finish. Very soft and approachable. Hard not to drink now. Better in 2024. - James...
92 WS Angélus continues its hot streak. Super color and concentration for the vintage. Exotic aromas of berries, red fruits, toasted oak and minerals. Full-bodied, with full, silky tannins and a long minty, fruity...
100 WE / 99 JS / 98+ WA / 98 VM / 97 DE / 97 JD / 96 WS #37 Wine Enthusiast's Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2019 This is a rich, perfumed wine, with dense tannins and intense layers of black plum and spice...
97-99 WA / 98-99 JS / 96-99 JD / 96-98 VM / 97 DE Composed of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, the 2019 Angélus was harvested from the 13th of September until the 4th of October. Deep garnet-purple colored, it...
94-95 JS / 92-94 WA Such beautiful quality of tannins in this with dense, layered fruit. It's full-bodied with black fruit, wet earth and smoke. Some meat, too. Muscular, yet agile. - James...
100 RP Proprietor Alain Vauthier has produced a prodigious wine that captures the essence of Ausone's terroir. A saturated black/purple color is followed by sensational aromas of ink, cherries, blackberries, blueberries,...
94 WA The Ausone 2004 possesses a sensual bouquet that demands more encouragement than the Cheval Blanc. It does not quite have the same complexity or nuance of its fellow Saint Emilion, opting for plusher and arguably more...
100 RP This brilliant, blue/black-hued offering reveals an extraordinarily youthful, but promising nose of incense, blueberries, blackberries, currants, licorice, and crushed rocks. This intense 2005 boasts powerful,...
98 RP One of the handful of candidates for wine of the vintage is the 2006 Ausone. In fact, while tasting it, I was thinking, is there any estate in Bordeaux that, since 1998, has made as many legendary wines as proprietor...
94 RP/94 WA The 2007 Ausone is a candidate for one of the wines of the vintage, rivaling Pavie and Lafite Rothschild. Its deep ruby/purple hue is accompanied by a beautiful nose of spring flowers, raspberries, black...
98 RP / 98 DE / 96 VM Possibly the “wine of the vintage,” the 2008 boasts an inky/blue/purple color as well as a glorious perfume of spring flowers, blueberry and blackberry liqueur, camphor, truffles and...
100 JS / 98+ RP Incredible nose of currants and blueberries. Flowers too. Licorice. Such purity on the nose of Cabernet Franc. Full body, incredible structure, with fabulous tannins and a long, long finish. Built out of...
98+ RP / 98 JS Alain Vauthier\'s wines have been so remarkable since he acquired full control of Ausone that readers probably feel I have thrown my critical wits away. However, the proof is in the tasting, and the 2010...
96+ RP/96 WA One can’t say enough about the amazing job that Alain Vauthier and his daughter have done at this historic property on the decomposed limestone slopes of St.-Emilion. Not surprisingly, the 2012 Ausone is...
98 WA / 97 DE / 96 VM / 96 JD / 96-97 JS The deep garnet-purple colored 2017 Ausone is a blend of 55% Cabernet Franc and 45% Merlot. It sashays out of the glass with gregarious scents of baked red and black plums,...
99-100 JS / 98-100 WA / 97-100 VM / 96-99 JD / 98 DE This is really exotic with wild-fruit character that I have seldom encountered in Ausone. Full-bodied yet reserved and very tight. Amazing depth and purity of fruit...
86 WA Tasted blind at Farr Vintners' 2006 horizontal, the 2006 Bahans-Haut-Brion has a fragrant earthy, woodland, almost autumnal bouquet that is well defined and fully mature. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy...
93-94 JS / 89-91 JD A layered, ripe red with polished and relatively fine tannins that integrate nicely. Lots of terroir character. It’s medium-to full-bodied. Lots of character. - James Suckling The 2019...
96 JD / 95 JS / 93 WA / 93 WS An awesome Saint Emilion, the 2015 Château Barde-Haut showed even better on this occasion than on release. A huge nose of sweet crème de cassis, jammy blackberries, violets,...
95-96 JS / 94 DE / 93-95 VM / 92-94 WA A really fantastic young wine with crushed blackberries, black truffles and stones. White pepper, too. It’s full-bodied, tight and polished with beautiful texture. Excellent,...
94 DE / 92-94 WE / 92-94 VM / 92-93 JS / 90-92 WA / 90-92 JD Packed full of mango, pineapple and dried apricots, with a good lime zest twist on the finish. Certified organic. Now owned by the Helfrich family of Grands Chais...
96-99 WS / 95-97 JD / 95-97 WA / 95-96 JS / 94-97 VM / 95 DE / Juicy and forward in feel, with fresh plum, blackberry and anise notes. Dense, but still silky and refined in feel, revealing a long mineral echo through the...
96 DE Rich plum colour. This takes its time to open, is pretty subtle at first, but then explodes in juicy fruit. Clear salinity where you can feel the slate scrape of the limestone terroir, alongside well expressed...
94 DE / 92-94 JD / 92-93 JS / 91-93 VM Dense and concentrated plum and damson on display. Some austerity right now, as you hope in a young wine. Harvest from September 12 on young vines and more than a week later for the...
97 AG / 95 DE / 94 JD /94 WS / 94 JS / 17 JR An utterly spellbinding wine, the 2014 Beauséjour Héritiers Duffau-Lagarrosse is also one of the unqualified successes of the vintage. Beams of tannin give the 2014...
100 JS / 98 JD / 98 AG / 96 DE / 96 WS / 97-99 GV#6 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2018#21 Jeb Dunnuck Top 50 Reds of 2018 This is extraordinary. There has never been a wine like this here since the famous 1990 or...
100 JD / 99 VM / 98 JS / 97 WA / 97 DE Cassis, crushed rocks, graphite, and liquid violet notes all emerge from the 2016 Château Beauséjour, one of the magical wines in this great, great vintage...
97 WA / 96+ JD / 96 JS / 95 DE / 95 WS / 93 VM Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2017 Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse) prances out of the glass with energetic notes of crushed black and red plums, black cherries and black...
99-100 JS / 98-100 DE / 97-99 JD / 95-98 WS / 95-97+ WA / 94-97 VM A muscular and powerful young wine with incredible depth and power. Full-bodied, layered and dense. Flexes its muscle with every sip, yet there’s...
98 DE / 96-98 WA / 95-97 VM / 95-97 JD / 95-96 JS Another stunning vintage from this brilliant estate that is just delivering hit after hit. Concentration and intensity right from the initial aromatics, damson, cassis and...
100 RP One of the most singular Bordeaux I have ever tasted, it verges on being port-like, but it pulls back because of the extraordinary minerality and laser-like focus. The wine is massively concentrated, still...
92 WA / 91+ VM / 91 RP This is much better than my previous encounter when it was served blind. Even though it is surpassed by the 2009, the 2005 has a very introverted bouquet with baked black cherry, soy and a little...
100 RP The 2010 is a more structured, masculine and steely version of the utterly compelling 2009. Tasting like black raspberry confiture with subtle notes of graphite and crushed chalk along with enormous floral notes, the...
90-91 JS A juicy, fruity red with some chocolate and walnut character to the ripe fruit. It’s medium-bodied with a chewy finish. - James...
95-96 JS This is very complex with super fine, silky tannins that just take off. Full bodied with berry, chocolate and walnut flavors. Mushrooms and cedar, too. - James...
92 DE This is an excellent one to take note of for medium-term drinking - loaded up with succulent black fruits that have clear ripeness, blackberry, cinnamon, coffee and spice box notes. Lovely stuff from this...
90-92 VM / 88-90 WA The 2019 Bellegrave from Jean-Marie Bouldy has a well defined nose marked by that gravel tincture that I often find on this Pomerol. The palate is smooth and silky on the entry, the acidity well judged...
92-94 WS
94-96 WA / 94-95 JSThe 2019 Bellevue Mondotte is a blend of 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, harvested on the 5th of October. The yields this year were 18 hectoliters per hectare, and the...
17 JR 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Very low yields of 18 hl/ha – each grape picked individually? Fermentation in temperature-controlled wooden vats. 13.8%. Dark but lively crimson. Enclave in...
17 JR 90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Very low yields of 18 hl/ha – each grape picked individually? Fermentation in temperature-controlled wooden vats. 13.8%. Dark but lively crimson...
95 DE / 94-96 JD / 93-95+ WA / 93-95 VM As ever a lesson in terroir, because 100% Merlot but with low pH from cool clay-limestone soils that means it can be austere in the early days. This has beautiful redcurrant leaf...
92 JS / 91-93 WA / 89-92 WS / 88-90 JD Some berries and smoke with stone and tar. Full-bodied, creamy and beautifully crafted. Tight and focused. A little lean, but shows balance and juiciness. Bitter lemon and smoke...
93-96 JD / 93-95 WA / 94-95 JS / 91-94 WS / 93 DE / 90-93 VM A rough blend of 78% Merlot and 22% Franc made by the team at Canon (Thomas Duclos also consults here), the 2018 Château Berliquet sports a deeper purple...
93 DE Vibrant damson in colour. I love the deep creaminess that is evident from the first nose, with hints of cocoa and gunsmoke. There is more clay here than at Canon; about 50% of the vineyard has a clay layer over the...
96 VM / 96 JD / 95+ WA / 94 DE / 94 JS / 93 WS #58 Jeb Dunnuck’s Top 100 Wines of 2019 The 2016 Beychevelle has a stunning bouquet of vibrant, shimmering blackberry and wild strawberry fruit laced with crushed stone...
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