100 WA / 100 VM / 100 WI / 100 WS / 99 WCI / 97-99 WE / 18.5 JR This brilliant, blue/black-hued offering reveals an extraordinarily youthful, but promising nose of incense, blueberries, blackberries, currants, licorice, and...
98 VM / 98 JS / 96 WE / 95 WA The 2005 Brut Le Clos Saint-Hilaire is sublime. Silky and understated, the 2005 is a model of class. The mousse alone is utterly captivating. Dried pear, gentle hints of spice, dried flowers...
90 WS Black currant and violet notes on the nose, with a good dose of slightly charred oak, follow through to a full body, with fine tannins and a long, vanilla-colored finish. There's lots of oak, but also lots of fruit...
97 WA / 97 JS / 96 DE / 96 WI / 95 WS / 94+ VM Tasted blind at the 10-Year On Tasting in Sauternes. The 2005 Chateau Climens just soars from the glass with layers of clear honey, marmalade, nectarine and minerals all...
90-92 WA / 90 FS Clos Puy Arnaud is nearly always a seriously made as well as potentially long-lived offering, as evidenced by the 2005. This blend of 60% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec,...
Figeac 2010: 98 JS / Palmer 2005: 98 VM / Leoville Las Cases 2000: 100 JS A unique mixed case gathering three emblematic estates of Bordeaux. This very special and limited case features three legendary...
100 WA /100 VM / 100 WI / 100 JD / 100 WCI / 99 JS / 98 DE / 98 JA / 97 WS / 97 WE / 19++ JR The 2005 La Mission Haut-Brion is pure perfection. It has an absolutely extraordinary nose of sweet blackberries, cassis and...
100 WA / 100 JD / 98 WCI / 97 VM / 97 WI / 17 JR With an unbelievable nose of licorice, tapenade, black cherry and blackcurrant liqueur, as well as full body, super-sweet tannin, and astonishing richness and length, this...
100 VM / 100 JS / 100 WI / 100 WE / 99 WS / 99 JD / 98+ WA / 98 RP/ 98 JA / 98 DE / 98 WCI / 19 JR The 2005 Latour was mind-blowingly profound in two recent tastings for this report. Deep and sensual to the core, the...
99 JD / 98 RP / 97+ WA / 97 WCI / 18 JR The 2005 Le Tertre Roteboeuf is just about off the charts and shows how good this vintage is for Bordeaux. Still inky ruby/purple-colored with a huge nose of blackcurrants, chocolate,...
100 JS / 100 WA / 100 JD / 99 VM / 99 DE / 99 WCI / 98 WI / 98 WE / 97 WS / 19.5 JR The nose on this seems more concentrated than the 2000, and the purity of fruit is stunning, with blueberries, raspberries, fresh flowers,...
A vertical collection of 11 vintages of Château Margaux from 2005 to 2015: 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015. Only 200 numbered cases made from wines that have never left the...
97 JS / 96 WA / 96 DE / 96 JD / 95 WI / 17.5 JR What a wine for the vintage, with spices and furniture wax undertones, then dried citrus fruit. Great intensity in this, powerful stuff. Perhaps the best 2005. - James...
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