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 FS Perfectly ripe scent with overseas character. Sweet dark fruit. Appears youthful and dense. Some rosemary and licorice. Concentrated palate attack with flattering fruit fullness and juicy acidity. Striking tannins in...
96 WI / 96 WS / 96 JA / 95 WA / 17.5 JR The 2005 de Fargues is medium to deep straw-gold in color. It rolls out with ready-to-go notes of honey toast, peach preserves, pineapple paste, and orange marmalade with touches of...
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 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, black cherries, and hints...
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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