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)

Even the Fugue de Nénin is good this year, it just gets a little edgy on the finish, which explains the selection, because the 'Grand Vin' has a deeper fruit, a suave, spicy, silky, velvet...(more info)

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)

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)

Haut Batailley (GPL's stablemate) having been so good, it was hard to believe the extent to which Grand Puy Lacoste moves into another dimension. Lovely expression of fruit, floral, elegant and f...(more info)

So silky and suave, the fruit - blueberry and blackberry - and tannins all coming together in velvet power. Almost as serenely velvety as the Reserve de la Comtesse, just a bit more serious. Simp...(more info)

This hit or miss château has turned in a very good performance in 1996. In addition to its dark purple colour, the wine offers sweet, ripe fruit, medium body, well-integrated tannin, and an...(more info)

Denis Durantou told us "July was hot, but it didn't make the vines suffer as there was water in the soil. After that the cold August didn't really matter. With the equinox, and don't forget...(more info)

At last shedding its tannins and revealing fabulously rich fruit and great elegance. A wonderful Pauillac.

The Bories have sorted out their succession so that Bruno and his sister have taken control of Ducru, while Xavier, who has been running Ducru, Haut Batailley and Grand Puy Lacoste, has retained...(more info)

22 years old and just now into its second year on the market as it was released in 2018. On first opening, you get an almost smoky edge, suggesting that you are missing nothing in the complexity...(more info)