Bordeaux & Bordeaux Supérieur

This is classic 2015 - a joyfully full style of Bordeaux. Lovely ripe fruit with great breadth and depth - but this is not sweet. There is a dark edge - more damson and prune than sweet plum. A h...(read more)

Classic Médoc, but perhaps a little softer and more enveloping than many, thanks to Guillaume's care with late and hand-harvesting, cold pre-fermentation soaking, and careful maturation in barrel...(read more)

We first tasted this 2014 during the 2015 en primeur campaign, on the ground in Bordeaux, after a day of trying some very esteemed wines from very famous estates in this great vintage. Even after...(read more)

2% Petit Verdot adds a nice element to this ample, full and impressive wine. There is a touch of chewy intensity to the deep fruit - but ripeness is spot-on, broad but balance is there too. Nicel...(read more)

2% Petit Verdot adds a nice element to this ample, full and impressive wine. There is a touch of chewy intensity to the deep fruit - but ripeness is spot-on, broad but balance is there too. Nicel...(read more)

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...(read more)

A brilliant vintage of Montaiguillon, this is drinkable now, but has a long life ahead if cellared. Very concentrated dark fruit and rich and fully-formed in the mouth.

Brightly-scented and well-formed defined fruit purity. Not heavy but well done. Energy and richly oaky classicism. Good direction and flow, crunchy texture. If the acidity shines a touch it is on...(read more)

50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot. Nice bright nose, sweet ripe red and black fruit, silky suave attack, a hint of almost honey sweetness in the fruit which is very attractive...(read more)