Pauillac

A dryly elegant wine which really delighted us with the way it proclaims its origin: intensity of dry fruit flavour, classy oak and élevage, but it is a great terroir speaking through the dry str...(read more)

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...(read more)

As usual more solid on the nose, firmer on the palate than the Haut Batailley which precedes it, and the tannins are wilder, but this is also very good. Seems not to have quite the flavour densit...(read more)

See the note on the Haut Batailley. The winemaking style is the same, but as always, Grand Puy Lacoste is just a lot bigger, a lot more dominated by its blueberry Cabernet flavour which even remi...(read more)

65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot. As completely coal-black as recent vintages. Very pure black fruit nose -ripe cassis, a sweet fruit expression. Silky quite oaky a...(read more)

An extremely well-balanced and well-crafted wine. Shows impressive dried cherry, cassis and dried herb character. Medium-bodied, with silky tannins and a mineral, cassis aftertaste.

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

71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29 % Merlot. 'Tender tannins' says Francois-Xavier, and it is true. Lots of volume and very jolly and likeable, perhaps lacking that last bit of drive. Velvety and long.