Products tagged with 'fr2024'

2010 Chateau D'Yquem - Sauternes HALF BOTTLE Ex-Chateau release (375ml)

1989 Chateau Gruaud Larose St. Julien Ex-Chateau release (750ml)

The 1989 Gruaud Larose is evolving very slowly, and its impressively youthful structure and vibrant flavors auger very well for its future. Offering up aromas of sweet berry fruit, cigar wrapper, loamy soil and cedar, it's medium to full-bodied, with a ri...

1978 Chateau La Mission Haut Brion Pessac

There was one younger wine. The 1978 La Mission Haut-Brion is one of the best wines of that decade and did not disappoint. Still youthful and dark in hue, it has that wonderful bouquet of blackberries, gravel and black olive, here displaying a heightened ...

2003 Chateau Lafite Rothschild - Pauillac

The 2003 Lafite Rothschild comes as close to perfection as any of the great Lafites made over the past three decades (1982, 1986, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010). This sensational effort came in at 12.7% natural alcohol, it is made in the style of ...

1998 Chateau L'Angelus St. Emilion

The 1998 Angélus, a blend of 40% Cabernet Franc and 60% Merlot, is deep garnet colored with a touch of brick. The nose is completely...WOW! It has an incredible array of smoked meats, incense, cigar box and dusty earth notions over a core of baked cherrie...

1990 Chateau Latour A Pomerol Pomerol

Deep red with nose of dried red fruit, tea leaves and earth. Sufficient concentration on palate, cedar and lead pencil aroma, good sweetness and acidity. Tanin mostly resolved and long after taste. Cellar Tracker 92 pts

1990 Chateau Leoville Las Cases - St. Julien

As one might expect, this is a brilliant wine, but it remains shockingly young, even for the fast evolving 1990s. Its deep ruby/purple color is accompanied by a classic, nearly restrained set of aromatics that includes notions of sweet black cherries, bla...

1989 Chateau Leoville Poyferre St. Julien

The 1989 Léoville Poyferré is a vintage that I have not tasted for a number of years. It has a very attractive bouquet of red fruit mixed with peppercorns, pine, cedar and orange peel, showing signs of youth at 30 years of age. The palate is medium-bod...

1996 Chateau Margaux - Margaux

The 1996 Chateau Margaux, a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc, must be a strong contender for wine of the vintage. It offers everything you desire from this First Growth. It is blessed with breathtaking del...

2010 Chateau Margaux - Margaux Ex-Chateau release

The 2010 is a brilliant Chateau Margaux, as one might expect in this vintage. The percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the final blend hit 90%, the balance Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and only 38% of the crop made it into the Chateau Margaux. Paul Pontallie...

1990 Chateau Margaux Margaux

The 1990 Château Margaux is really beginning to hit its stride at age 31, soaring from the glass with aromas of blackberries and cassis mingled with notions of licorice, cedar and violets, framed by subtle hints of vanilla and spice. Full-bodied, deep and...

2001 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Pauillac MAGNUM Ex-Chateau release (1.5L)

The 2001 Mouton-Rothschild contains 20% vin de presse and 12.6° alcohol. It has a vibrant, captivating bouquet that explodes from the glass with precocious black cherries, sous-bois, mint and a touch of Seville oranges, displaying precision and class. ...

2000 Chateau Palmer - Margaux

The 2000 Palmer is a very different “beast” than the 2001, and I use that word intentionally. This is much more feral on the nose, and quite ferrous, presenting leather and dried herbs, smudged red berry fruit, and a hint of fig that emerges with time....

1989 Chateau Pavie St. Emilion

Red/brown, with clear rim. Gentle on the nose and the palate. Sandalwood, woody embers, damp earth and leather on the nose - like muddy rugby boots in a kit bag. A mouthwatering freshness - still quite a bite to it, and spicy too, but attractively so. Bur...

2003 Chateau Suduiraut - Sauternes HALF BOTTLE 375ml

Bright, full yellow. Honey, pineapple and a whiff of menthol on the nose. Then impressively powerful in the mouth but with lovely acidity leavening its concentrated fruit. Very juicy and fine for Suduiraut, and not at all outsized or overly sweet. Come...

2019 Chave - Hermitage BLANC MAGNUM (1.5L)

2021 Chave - Hermitage Rouge MAGNUM (1.5L)

More in the mold of the 2014, the 2021 Hermitage is a ripe, polished, beautifully balanced Hermitage that doesn't have the depth and concentration of a great vintage, yet shines for its elegance, balance, and overall sense of class. Red and black fruits, ...

2016 Henri Bonneau Chateauneuf du Pape Celestins

The 2016 Chateauneuf-du-Pape Reserve des Celestins is also deeply colored and impressive, with slightly darker fruits as well as the standard gamy, meaty, peppery profile that makes the estate so special. Possessing full-bodied richness, surprisingly brig...