Saint Julien

Good wholesome aromatic fruit. Delicacy and precision, red fruit with high-toned red currant, then a bit more depth. There's really a very attractive richness here. A little spice. Goes on well.

Plush and rounded, lively and winning with a good mid-palate feel and the quite evident oak is attractive rather than overpowering.

The initial impression is of a very strong sweet oakiness - rather new world in style. But the volume is there underneath and the dense fruit character of the wine shrugs off this coating and powers on with smooth dry Ca...(read more)

Tasted at the château during the 2015 primeur campaign, 2009 Lagrange is opening slowly and moving on from fruit aromas to tobacco and spice. Very attractive, a hedonistic wine that can be enjoyed from now, but whi...(read more)

57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, 4% Petit Vedot. Fresh, crisp, pure and well-constituted, Talbot is not a lot fuller than the 2004, and has a touch of the herby Cabernet that is so typical. A wine of excellent balance...(read more)

Not staggeringly deep in colour, but as usual this has an indefinably classy royal purple aspect. The nose is warm with the ripeness of black fruit and a deep cedary complexity. Sophisticated complex flavour to go with t...(read more)

Delightful and fully mature. This was the red wine served (blind) at the AGM lunch of the Royal Household Wine Committee and charmed us all. The 1988s were chunky and austere for so long but, to judge from this wine, the...(read more)

Like the Fiefs, Cabernet dominates. Classic, tight and straight, but with a richness of texture and velvety feel, and still a considerable freshness of fruit. Really excellent, and the spice of wood that the carefully ma...(read more)

Produced at Gloria, this is part of the 'Domaines Henri Martin', and is a Saint Julien with restraint and classical lines.

78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc. This is only the 4th time they have added Cabernet Franc here, and there is a noticeable elegance to the wine. Great St Julien feel. This packs a lovely punch. Sophi...(read more)

Branaire has made a very fine wine in 2017. François Xavier Maroteaux, who has now taken the reins, explained they are always striving for a ‘home signature’ which combines pure fruit, freshness and balance - miss...(read more)