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96-98 VM / 96-98 JD / 97 DE / 96-97 JS / 95-97 WA / 95-97 WI The 2022 Pichon Baron was picked 8 September to 3 October and matured in 70% new oak. It has wonderful precision on the nose, with intense blackberry and bilberry...
93-95 JD / 93-94 JS / 93 JA / 93 DE / 91-93 VM / 90-92 WA / 89-91 WI Another brilliant Saint-Estèphe, the 2022 Château Ormes De Pez offers up lots of ripe blue and black fruits as well textbook earth, crushed...
91-93+ WI / 92-93 JS / 92 JA / 90-92 JD / 90-92 VM Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2022 Haut-Carles needs a fair bit of swirling to unlock notes of black raspberries, juicy blackberries, and preserved plums, followed by...
95-96 JS / 94 JA / 94 DE / 92-94+ WA / 92-94 WI / 92-94 JD A very juicy and nicely chewy young red with black berry, chocolate and cedar aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied with integrated tannins and a fresh and persistent...
95-97 JD / 95-96 JS / 93-95 WA / 92-94 WI / 92-94 VM / 92 JA I loved the 2022 Clos Du Marquis, which is a brilliant effort, if not the finest vintage of this cuvée I've tasted. Cassis, graphite, and floral notes all...
95-96 JS / 94-96 JD / 95 JA / 95 DE / 93-95 WA / 93-95 WI / 91-93 VM Focused and bright with plenty of fruit but oranges and minerals in the mid-palate. Really fresh with a fresh bitterness. - James Suckling As to the...
97-99 WI / 96-98 VM / 93-96 AG The 2022 L'Extravagant de Doisy Daene, 100% Sauvignon Blanc, is pale to medium straw in color. The nose erupts with vibrant grapefruit, lemonade, and lime cordial scents, leading to...
96-97 JS / 95-97 JD / 95 DE /92-94 VM A serious and very linear white with fine phenolics that run the length of the wine. Medium to full body. Complex fruit character of melon, grapefruit and peaches. Excellent finish. Dry...
99-100 DE / 98-100 JA / 98-99 JS / 97-99 WA / 97-99 VM / 96-98+ WI / 96-98 JD / 17.5++ JR A sublime wine from Lafleur in 2022 that delivers a vibrant, electric and incredibly charming wine with subtle power. A beautiful...
94-96 VM / 94-96 WI / 93-94 JS / 92 JA The 2022 Coutet has a beautifully-defined nose with pure botrytised fruit: tangerine, saffron, honeysuckle and orange rind hints. This has impressive focus. The palate is medium-bodied...
94-95 JS / 95 DE / 93-95 JD / 93-95 WA / 94 JA / 92-94 VM The tannins really are integrated and fill out across the palate. The texture is so beautiful and refined. Medium- to full-bodied and crunchy, with lovely texture...
96-98 WI / 97 DE / 96-97 JS / 95-97 WA / 95-97 VM / 95-97 JD / 95 JA The 2022 L'Evangile is composed of 82% Merlot, 17.5% Cabernet Franc, and 0.5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Deep garnet-purple in color, it needs a lot of swirling...
97-99+ WI / 98-99 JS / 97-99 VM / 96-98 JD / 95-97 WA / 96 DE / 96 JA Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2022 Haut-Brion is a blend of 53.6% Merlot, 35.4% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 11% Cabernet Franc aging in 62.9%...
97-99 JD / 96-98 WA / 95-97+ WI / 96 DE / 95-96 JS / 94-96 VM A wine that's going to flirt with perfection, the 2022 Château Calon Ségur is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet...
95-96 JS / 92-94+ WA / 92-94 JD / 93 DE / 91-93 WI / 92 JA / 90-92 VM This is really clear and bright. Medium- to full-bodied with a solid tannin structure. Tight layers of phenolics to this. Racy and long finish. Firm and...
95-96 JS / 95 JA / 94-96 JD / 94 DE / 92-94+ WI / 92-94 WA / 92-94 VM The Petit Mouton is more and more structured and intense. It's made for the cellar. Full to medium body. Lively and intense. Solid. 71% cabernet...
94-96 JD / 94-95 WA / 93-95 WI / 93-94 JS / 94 JA / 94 DE / 92-94 VM Candied cherries, tapenade, violets, and floral notes all emerge from the 2022 Château Berliquet, a medium to full-bodied, seamless Saint-Emilion...
92 JA / 90-92 JD Vivid, bright raspberry and blueberry fruit, limestone plateau, concentrated but with air and mouth-scraping pummice stone acidity that reflects the fingerprint of limestone. Josephine Duffau-Lagarosse's...
96-98 JD / 96 JA / 96 DE / 94-96+ WA / 94-96+ WI / 94-96 VM / 94-95 JS The 2022 Château Clinet showed beautifully, with an almost Médoc-like style in its darker cassis, graphite, cedar pencil, and tobacco...
94-96 JD / 93-94 JS / 93 DE / 91-93 WI / 92 JA / 90-92 VM The 2022 Château Cote De Baleau is 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc raised in barrels. It's a pure, elegant, classic Saint-Emilion with obvious minerality as...
95-97+ JD / 95-97 VM / 94-96 AG / 94-96 WI / 95 DE / 94-95 JS / 92-94 WA / 93 JA I was able to taste the 2022 Château Beychevelle on multiple occasions, and it never failed to impress me. Based on 54% Cabernet...
96 DE / 94-96 WA / 94-96 VM / 95 JA / 93-95 JD / 93-94 JS / 92-94+ WI Juicy and lively, cool and crisp with concentrated but cool tannins that give the structure and density. It's massy, full, upfront, but retains a...
92-94 JD / 91-93 WA / 91-93 VM / 92 DE / 89-91 WI I loved the 2022 Château Joanin Bécot, which might be the finest vintage I've tasted from this château. Based on 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc,...
92 WA / 92 WS / 89+ VM / 17 JR Tasted at the chateau. A slightly lighter hue than the 1995 Blanc, with green tints. But the nose has more freshness with greater precision and mineralite, notes of passion fruit, a touch of...
99 WI / 98+ VM / 98 JA / 98 JS / 97 WS / 97 DE The 2015 Latour is a blend of 97.1% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2.6% Merlot, and 0.3% Petit Verdot. Deep garnet in color, it needs a little swirling to uncover the latent scents of...
In the 19th century, it was a common practice of the time to “hermitage” the wines. Bordeaux chateaux would add to their wines a certain quantity of wine from the Rhone - notably from the region of Hermitage...
95 WI / 95 JS / 94 VM / 94 WE / 93 JA / 93 WS / 93 JD The 2017 Les Forts de Latour is composed of 65.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot, and 0.8% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet in color, it comes galloping out...
100 WA / 100 WE / 99 JS / 98 JD / 98 DE / 98 VM / 97 WS#53 Wine Enthusiast's Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2021 Lafite celebrates their 150th Anniversary with a Special Label for the 2018 vintage The...
100 DE / 100 JS / 100 JD / 99 WA / 99 VM / 98 WS #98 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2019 What I love about the 2016 Lafite is that the sweetness of the fruit comes through even at this early stage...
98-99 JS / 97-99 JD / 97-99 WA / 98 DE / 93-96 VM The length and texture to this wine is so very impressive. It’s not so much the sheer power that is impressive here, rather the form, tension and exquisite form that...
99 WA / 98+ AG / 98+ WI / 98+ JD / 98 VM / 98 JA / 98 DE / 98 JS One of the wines of the vintage, but likely to prove slower evolving and more introverted than its 2019 counterpart, the 2020 Lafleur unwinds in the glass...
100 WS / 99 WA / 98 VMActual case and bottles available shown below: From one of the 20th century's celebrated vintages for Yquem, this bottle stands up to all the hype--unforgettable for its purity,...
96 RP / 95 VM / 95 DE One of the greatest wines of the vintage is, not surprisingly, from proprietor Denis Durantou. A remarkable effort in every sense, the 2006 l’Eglise Clinet is not far off the quality of the...
100 DE / 100 FS / 98 WA / 97+ VM Michel Delon, then owner, believed this to be the greatest wine he ever made. It's not often the case that wines with this much expectation riding on them live up to the hype, but this one...
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This wine was formerly known as Saint-Estèphe de Calon Ségur until the 2019 vintage when it adopted its new name.An integral member of the Calon Ségur family, the third wine exhibits a freshness and...
100 DE / 99 VM / 99 JA / 99 WE / 99-100 JS / 97+ JD / 97-99 WA Dark fruits on the nose, blackcurrants and cherries with savoury nuances of dark chocolate and tobacco. Fresh and forward on the palate, this...
94 WA Tasted single blind at the Fine Wine Experience horizontal in London. This has a gregarious nose, very extrovert with ripe red-berried fruit, a touch of menthol coming through, the most New World of the flight so far...
94 WS / 92 RP / 18 JR Nectar-like if a bit on the sweet side, impressively complex, concentrated and focused. Deep gold, big, sweet and rich, with gobs of concentrated fig, brown sugar, butterscotch and oak flavor. A...
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96 WS / 94 VM / 93 RP / 16.5 JR Deep garnet; fragrant tar and black truffle nose; extremely concentrated; big and mouth-filling, with very dense cassis flavor; enormous, generous fruit; a voluptuous claret - Wine...
100 VM / 100 WA / 100 DE / 100 RP / 100 JS / 99 WS / 99 WE The 2010 Latour can be summed up in two words: “The king.” It convincingly asserts its superiority over other 2010s, including First Growths, in terms...
Special collection coming direct from the chateau with one bottle each 2005, 2009, 2010, 2016 in individual OWCs. 2005: 99 points James Suckling: "Still needs a year or two but gorgeous to drink already."2009: 100 points...
Special collection coming direct from the chateau with one bottle each 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2018 in individual OWCs. 2005: 100 points Robert Parker: "This is another fabulous wine and a perfect expression for this...
Special numbered collection limited to 300 cases coming direct from the chateau with one bottle each of 2009, 2010, 2015. Ausone 2009 (100 JS) Incredible nose of currants and blueberries. Flowers too. Licorice. Such...
92-93 JS / 91 JD / 90 VM / 89 WA An elegant and mineral red with a medium body and tight, fine tannins. Stony, with fresh red-fruit and citrus notes. Tight center-palate. Fresh and fine. Second wine. 84% merlot and 16%...
93 JA / 91-93+ WA / 91-92 JS / 90 VM Precise and finessed black fruits here right from the first moments, this is high Cabernet Sauvignon, lovely black savoury fruits that suit the slighly serious feel of Duhart. Expect...
98 JA / 97 JS / 95 WI / 94 WS #100 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2023 A great example of this always-arresting dry white, with a ton of soft apple blossom aromatics, before drawing inwards to show scraping...
96 VM / 96 DE / 95 JS / 95 WA / 95 JA / 95 WI The 2021 Troplong Mondot is fabulous. It offers up a rush of dark red-toned fruit, crushed rocks, leather, menthol, cedar and blood orange. As always, Troplong Mondot is marked...
97 VM / 96 DE / 95 JS / 93-95 JD / 93+ WA / 93 JA The 2021 Rauzan-Ségla is impressive. Dark, somber and brooding, the 2021 offers up a heady concoction of black cherry, plum, graphite, new leather, scorched...
94-95 JS / 92-94 VM / 93 WA / 92 DE Extremely focused and refined, with firm tannins that run the length of the wine. Medium-bodied with lovely length and juiciness. Blackberry and earth with mushroom and bark. Hints of...
95-96 JS / 95 JA / 95 DE / 93-95 WI / 93 JD / 93 VM / 91-93 WA Plenty of blackberry and blueberry with wet earth and crushed stone. Some spice,tobacco and lead pencil, too. It’s full-bodied with layered tannins and...
98 VM / 96 DE / 94-96+ JD / 95 WA / 95 JA / 94-95 JS The 2021 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is a towering wine. Just as it did en primeur, the 2021 dazzles from start to finish. The Cabernets are very high in the...
92-94 VM / 90-92 JD / 91 WS / 89-91 WA The 2021 Réserve de la Comtesse is a seriously great wine in its peer group. Or any peer group. Rich and layered, with no hard edges and compelling balance, the 2021...
94-95 JS / 94+ WI / 92-94 JD / 93DE / 91-93 WA / 92 AG / 92 VM / 92 JA A nicely rounded young red with fine tannins that are polished and poised. Medium body with a solid center-palate and a creamy finish. Shows wonderful...
96 JS / 95 DE / 95 WI / 93-95 JD / 94+ AG / 94 JA / 93 WA / 93 VM A very juicy and rounded young 2021 with berry, chocolate, cedar, balsamic, and redwood aromas and flavors. Medium to full body. Velvety tannins. Excellent...
91 VM / 90-91 JS / 89-91 JD / 89 WA The 2021 Pastourelle de Clerc Milon is a bold, juicy wine. Succulent dark cherry, plum, lavender, spice and violet all flesh out in the glass. Pastourelle is one of the hidden gems in...
93 JA / 92 JS / 91-93 VM / 91 DE / 90 JD / 89 WA This has punch and mouth-watering juicy acidities. Cheerful, enticiting, blackberry and loganberry fruits, and all is in place to add on further depth over ageing. There is...
96-97 JS / 96+ WI / 96 AG / 96 DE / 95-97 WE / 95 JA / 95 JD / 94 WA / 94 VM / 17.5+ JR A firm and compact Mouton with a powerful tannin frame for the vintage, yet it remains fine and precise as it opens to a...
97 WA / 96+ AG / 96 DE / 96 WI / 95-96 JS / 95 VM / 95 DE / 95 JA / 93-95 JD Wine Advocate Wine of the VintageThe remarkable 2021 Montrose gets my nomination for the title of "wine of the vintage" in the Médoc...
89-91 VM The 2021 Mauvesin Barton was picked from 30 September until 11 October and aged in one-third new oak. There is more Cabernet this year (52%) due to frost damage. It has a vibrant nose with black cherries, bilberry...
94 JS / 94 VM / 93 WA / 91 JD / 90 DE / 90 JA Very floral with black currant and black cherry aromas with hints of lavender. Floral. Medium-bodied with firm and silky tannins that show beautiful length and polish. Goes on...
94-96+ JD / 95 JS / 95 DE / 94 AG / 94 VM / 94 JA / 94 WS / 92-94 WI / 93+ WA The Grand Vin 2021 Château Lynch-Bages ratchets up everything, offering a rich, powerful, almost full-bodied style as well as gorgeous...
95 DE / 93-95 VM / 94 WA / 92-94 JD / 92-93 JS Smells ripe and concentrated, blackcurrant, black cherry and plum. Tension and minerality to the fore here, this is streamlined and direct, less layered and plump but has...
92 AG / 91 JS / 90 DE / 91-93 JD / 89-91 WA / 90 VM / 88 WS The 2021 Le Marquis de Calon Ségur is fabulous. Dark, pliant and super-expressive, the 2021 is an absolute delight. Graphite, spice, leather, dried herbs...
91-92 JS / 90 DE / 90-92 VM / 90 WA Medium-bodied, round and nicely spiced with powdery tannins. Juicy ripe-cherry notes with some sweet spice. Pretty. Firm tannins in the center-palate. 82.7% merlot, 14.5% cabernet franc...
94-95 JS / 92 WA / 92 DE / 92 JD / 90-92 VM / 91 JA Lots of iodine and oyster-shell aromas, together with blackberry and black cherry, following through to a medium to full body. Polished yet slightly chewy tannins and a...
96 JS / 96 WI / 93-95+ JD / 94 VM / 94 JA / 94 DE / 91 WA Very complex and subtle with cedar, dried herb, green tobacco, berry and lavender aromas that follow through to a medium body, with ultra-fine tannins that give...
93 WA / 93 VM / 92-93 JS / 92 JD / 92 AG / 92 JA / 89-91 WI The chateau is celebrating 200 years in 2021 with a special label. The 2021 Langoa Barton offers up attractive aromas of dark berries and plums mingled with sweet...
94 VM / 93 WA / 93 JA / 92-93 JS / 93 JD / 91 DE The 2021 Lagrange turned out beautifully. Succulent red cherry, plum, cedar, tobacco, spice and mocha infuse the 2021 with gorgeous depth. Soft, succulent and inviting,...
96 AG / 96 JS / 95 WA / 95 DE / 95 JA / 93-95 JD / 94 VM / 92-94 WI The chateau is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2021 with a commemorative bottle and special OWC. The 2021 La Conseillante is bright, fresh and...
96 VM / 95-96 JS / 93-95 JB / 92-94+ WA / 93 DE / 89-91 WI / 90 JA The 2021 L’If is a wine of power and reserve. It exudes notable density and richness, but in the more restrained style of the year. Black cherry,...
96-97 JS / 96 AG / 95 VM / 93-95 JD / 94 WA / 94 JA / 94 DE A pure, creamy and well-structured yet very fine Evangile. Long and caressing. Very fine tannins. Lots of fresh dark fruit and savory, mineral character...
94 AG / 93 JS / 93 DE / 92 JD / 92 VM / 92 JA / 91 WA / 90 WS The 2021 Haut-Batailley shows an estate in evolution. Aromatic and medium in body, the 2021 is not quite as bombastic as some previous editions, which is a...
93 AG / 93 WA / 92-93 JS / 92 VM The 2021 Guillot-Clauzel turned out beautifully. It shows terrific depth and tons of character, with no hard edges and fine balance. The oak, once an issue here, is impeccably integrated,...
95 DE / 94 WA / 94 VM / 94 JA / 94 WI Black peppercorns, tobacco, ash, vanilla, cinnamon and cedar spice. A gorgeous mouthfeel straight away, the tannins so plump, not heavy or opulent but filling and ripe. This has a...
94-96 VM / 95 DE / 95 JS / 94 WA / 93 JA / 92 WS The 2021 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is fabulous. Bright and punchy, with terrific aromatic presence, the 2021 is a terrific example of the modern classicism of the year at its best...
94 JS / 93 VM / 92 WA / 90-92 JD / 91 AG / 91 JA / 91 DE Excellent depth for 2021. Refined and complex with aromas of graphite, cassis, mineral, chili chocolate, white pepper and cigar box. Fresh and juicy, with...
95 VM / 94-95 JS / 94+ WA / 91-94 JD / 93 JA / 93 DE The 2021 Giscours is not quite as showy as some recent vintages, but all the ingredients are there. Aromatic, deep and layered, with tremendous balance, the 2021 has so...
93 JS / 91-93 JD / 91 DE / 91 WS / 89-91 VM / 90 JA Black currant, chocolate and walnut aromas and flavors. It’s medium-bodied with polished tannins and a pretty texture. Vivid and creamy mouthfeel. Lovely finish...
95-96 JS / 93-95 WA / 93-95 JD / 94+ AG / 94 JA / 93 VM A medium-bodied DC with a pretty core of ripe fruit that shows licorice, blackberry and some currant character. Spice box, too. Very long, with fine tannins and plenty...
95-96 JS / 94 JA / 94 DE / 91-93 JD / 92 WA / 90-92 WI / 90-92 VM A very fine yet structured d’Issan with blackcurrant and plum, as well as spice and walnuts. The palate is full and structured with wonderful tannins...
93 DE / 92-93 JS / 92 WA / 92 JA / 91 JD / 90 AG / 90 VM Succulent and softly supple, this has lots of energy and pace with bright red fruits, raspberries and cherries, alongside sweet spices and perfumed nuances. The...
95-96 JS / 95 JA / 93-95 VM / 95 WI / 93 WA / 17+ JR Fantastic energy and length to this young Sauternes, with dried-apple, apple-pie, spice and cinnamon character . Medium body, medium sweetness and a vibrant finish. -...
93 JS / 93 JD / 90 DE / 87-90 WA / 88-90 VM Black currant, black walnut, black berry, and dark chocolate with some black mushroom undertones. Medium to full body, chewy tannins and a fresh finish. Solid for this...
95 VM / 95 JS / 95 WI / 93-95 JD / 93 JA / 93 DE / 92 WA The 2021 Clos Fourtet is a dark, imposing wine. Blackberry, gravel, scorched earth, leather, incense and clove infuse the 2021 with tons of character. This is...
93-96 JD / 95 DE / 94 AG / 94 JA / 93-94 JS / 93 VM / 92+ WA / 90-92 WI / 91 WS Coming from a mix of clay and gravelly soils spread across a 10-hectare vineyard and 40-year-old vines, the 2021 Château Clinet is...
94 AG / 93-94 JS / 92-94 VM / 93 WA / 93 DE / 92 VM / 92 JA / 90-93 JD / 88-90+ WI The 2021 Clerc Milon is another fine effort from the chateau. It offers an alluring mix of fruit raciness and savory character from the...
95 AG / 95 DE / 95 JS / 94 JA / 92-94 JD / 93 WA / 93 VM The 2021 Brane-Cantenac is a classy, elegant wine. The aromatics alone are so enticing. Crushed flowers, sweet pipe tobacco, mint, rose petal and cedar open first...
94-95 JS / 94 AG / 94 DE / 94 WA / 91-93 WI / 92 VM / 92 JAWine Advocate Sleepers of the Vintage A very pretty wine, showing blackberry and blackcurrant aromas with crushed stone. Medium to full body with layers of...
94 AG / 94 DE / 93+ JD / 93 JA / 92+ WA / 92 VM / 92 WI The 2021 Beychevelle is elegant, understated and classy. Medium in body and less overt than most recent years, the 2021 is impeccably balanced from start to finish...
93 WA / 93 JD / 93 JS / 93 AG / 93 JA / 93 DE / 91 VM / 89-91 WIWine Advocate Sleepers of the VintageThe 2021 Berliquet is showing very well in bottle, wafting from the glass with notes of sweet wild berries, plums and rose...