Saint Julien

72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc Intense purple color, this wine has a beautiful brightness. The nose is expressive and develops black fruit aromas, such as blackberry, and roasted notes. The structu...(read more)

Well, this really is a very delicious Saint Julien! By Bordeaux standards, at just 5.5 Hectares - this is almost artisan in scale and philosophy too, but the wine is very sophisticated indeed. The 2016 jumps out of the g...(read more)

59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot, 4% Cabernet Franc. Slipery silk feel, so easy and fine. Lovely envelope and gloss to the Cabernet-flavoured quite focused fruit. Glossy yet dryly linear, with sappy fr...(read more)

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.

60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, & 6% Petit Verdot. Fabulous. From the start there is good, deep, dark shiny fruit. Intensity of fruit extract is great. No spare fat here, just lovely polished d...(read more)

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)

Smoky and earthy, with copious jammy cassis fruit and sweet tannin, this is an excellent, full-bodied Saint-Pierre. The saturated deep purple color is followed by a persistent, concentrated wine with copious sweet tannin...(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)

82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot. In contrast to the Grand Puy Lacoste in the same 'stable', Ducru is sweet to taste, round and ripe, all of one piece, tannins fine but very present giving a feel of volume, an impressi...(read more)