Pontet Canet scoring 100 Pts from Robert Parker sent shock waves through the Bordeaux region! Other producers with much high classifications will not rest on their laurels over this. With luck, the end result will be better wine and more of it for consumers.
Leoville Poyferre is one of the most exciting properties in the Medoc today. The style of Leoville Poyferre is a Bordeaux wine that offers lush ripe fruit with purity and concentration a powerful, plush style.
Grand Vin Chateau Reignac is a rich, concentrated, opulent, ripe, up front style of wine that offers a lot of pleasure for the money. Plus, the wine shows well young.
Perhaps because they have only been on a hot streak for a few years, (since 2000) for a Bordeaux wine of this quality, they remain fairly priced. This wine is no shrinking violet. It is thick, rich, pure and aromatic. The tannins are soft and the texture is elegant.
While expensive, more than triple the price of most of the other Sauternes, when the wine matures, d’Yquem stands heads and shoulders above every other sweet Bordeaux wine from the region as well as that from any other sweet wine from all over the world!
Because the fruit is picked late, the wine offers a crushed raspberry and mineral perfume, along with black cherry, licorice and elements of kirsch. The wine is rich, racy and plush. However, their style of wine is not the only thing that sets them apart from other wineries.
Since 1998, Chateau L’Eglise Clinet has been producing some of the finest wine in the Pomerol appellation. In some vintages it is as good, or better than Petrus or Lafleur!
