Fine Bordeaux Selection

A soft, somewhat fleshy and opulent style of St.-Julien, this 2012 has a deep ruby/purple color, good minerality, moderate tannin, and a full but more precocious and accessible style than its nei...(more info)

Green and yellow gold. Pineapple in caramel butter. Then a fresh fruit note - guava, peach? Complex smoke, intense buttery caramel, oily, rich, very weighty as well as dancingly fresh. Great prec...(more info)

Deep purple robe with black hints The nose is complex and discreet, the bouquet will further develop upon ageing. Swirling of the glass will reveal notes of underwood, spices and pencil lead deli...(more info)

Very deep purple-edged colour. This certainly tastes like Barton; regal flavours and depth, especially on the mid-palate where so many wines are lacking this year. Tannic, and the tannins are qui...(more info)

A high proportion of Cabernet is immediately evident. Rich with lots of volume. Sweet blackberry and bramble, vigourous and weighty. Really good. Proper wine. Tannins present but not over-extract...(more info)

This looks to be a very good Domaine de Chevalier, with excellent colour, round and harmonious, fresh compared with many of the Graves, though lacking a bit of grace in the mid-palate.

71% Cabernet Sauvignon 25% Merlot 4% Cabernet Franc This second wine of Chateau Léoville Barton comes from young vines and plots that have not reached the high level of requirement to ente...(more info)

Slighter in volume than some, but this is a good thing, since it avoids the solid dryness of some of the Graves. Domaine de Chevalier's trademark, marginally herby fruit at this stage, in a fine...(more info)

52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. Fresh and silky, a little subtlety here. Sweetness coolly expressed in restrained and pure black fruit. Some middle with...(more info)

Tasted from barrel in 2012 - this was plummy, supple, smokey, smoothly-integrated oak. Quite oaky all the same. A bit formulaic perhaps. It has now blossomed into quite a refined feeling. Very 't...(more info)

Good deep ruby colour, sweet round attack, full but not huge, the tannins on the finish severe and dry, powerful and not especially friendly at the moment, though with good fruit and acidity givi...(more info)

Much dumber on the nose than Langoa, much more Cabernet in character. Thick and serious. Dense yet fresh in expression. Fruitcake, black fruit, spice, indivisible. Lovely dry structure filled wit...(more info)