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2023
Château Pavie Arômes de Pavie (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, blackberries, licorice, Asian spice, dark chocolate, and a hint of smoke fill the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is equally dark, with layers of dark, juicy berries, licorice, vibrance, and length, with a chalky endnote in the long finish. Aromes de Pavie is no longer the second wine of Pavie. All of the fruit comes from a specific 11-hectare parcel, so it should be looked at as its own brand. It is interesting to note that all of the vines are old, averaging 53 years of age. The wine blends 50% Merlot with 50% Cabernet Franc. 14.51 ABV%, 3.63 pH. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 684 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Corbin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black plums, black cherries, flowers, and licorice shine in the perfume. Elegant, refined, soft, medium-bodied, and with sweet, ripe, fruits, with freshness, this is already charming in your glass. And it is only going to get better with a year or two in the bottle. The wine blends 95% Merlot with 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2042. 92-94 Pts. 871 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black plums, flowers, cherries, and fennel fill the nose. On the palate, the wine is luscious, elegant, polished, fresh, sweet, and lifted, with lingering cherries, and plums on the backend in the salted-chocolatey, finish. Drink from 2028-2050. 94-96 Pts. 1,522 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Quite floral in nature, it is the vivacious nature, sensuality, and freshness in the fruits that stand out. Picture, velvety-textured, black plums with dark chocolate, saffron, orange peel, cumin, and black raspberries that caress and paint your palate with layers of fruit. There is a sublime sense of purity, paired with elegance and vivacity that sticks with you in the precise finish for close to 60 seconds. Produced from 100% Merlot, 14.4% ABV, 3.77 pH, the harvest took place September 6 - September 17. Yields were only 29 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2026-2055. 98-100 Pts. 1,090 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Croix St. Georges (Pomerol)
Flowers, chocolate covered cherries, licorice, and a leaf, or two of mint create the aromatic profile. The medium-bodied palate is even better with its crisp, soft, lush, silky, vibrant, polished, fresh character. The fruits are sweet, ripe, and juicy. There is purity matched with elegance. The finish is long, and lingering with its chocolate-coated black, and red fruits, with just a hint of smoke, and espresso to add another accent. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. 14.61 ABV, 3.67 pH. This is clearly the start of another level for La Croix St. Georges. When bottled, it is possible the score could rise even further. Drink from 2028-2045. 92-94 Pts. 835 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos du Clocher (Pomerol)
Flowers, plums, blackberries, truffle, black cherries, dark chocolate, smoke, and espresso show readily in the nose, The palate is lush, supple, creamy, and vibrant, with silky tannins, length, and loads of ripe, black cherries, blue fruit, that are all accompanied by dark chocolate. Harvesting took place September 5 - October 4, making this one of the longest harvests in the history of the estate. The wine blends 70% Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc. 13.9% ABV, 3.58 pH. Drink from 2028-2045. 94-96 Pts. 1,123 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
La Mondotte (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Incense, flowers, black cherries, cigar box, plums, and spice are easy to spot in the perfume. On the palate, texturally, the fruits are as lush, as they are bright, and fresh. There is an understated sense of elegance that becomes apparent as the wine expands, and lingers on your palate. The lengthy finish continues gaining in intensity and complexity. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc, 13.5% ABV. The harvest took place September 19-30. 2029-2060. 96-98 Pts. 1,104 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Orange cream, flowers, vanilla, pomelo, ginger, green apples, and a splash of pineapple hit the nose. Juicy, creamy, with sweetness, and balancing acidity giving the wine length, lift, and sweet citrus with a splash of spicy white peaches in the mid-palate, which carry through to the finish. The harvest took place August 25 - September 7. The wine blends 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Semillon, and 5% Sauvignon Gris. 14% ABV, 3.2 pH. Drink from 2025-2035. 95-95 Pts. 1,288 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Waxy lemons, white peach, pineapple, and green apples come through in this vibrant, juicy, crisp, wine, which balances its juicy yellow citrus with its sweetness. The wine is made from a blend of 65.3% Semillon and 34.7% Sauvignon Blanc, picking took place August 24, and finishing September 5. The length of harvest is extraordinary, considering there are only 3.5 hectares of vines. 13.9% ABV, 3.3 pH. Drink from 2026-2040. 96-96 Pts. 889 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos St. Julien (St. Émilion)
Flowers, crushed stones, licorice, and bright, fresh, red fruit notes are all over the place, on the palate, and in the perfume. Medium-bodied, elegant, vibrant, and with finishing touches salted-chocolate-topped red fruits, this should age quite well. The wine blends 50% Cabernet Franc with 50% Merlot. Drink from 2029-2045. 94-96 Pts. 731 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Grave a Trigant de Boisset (Pomerol)
Mint, cherries, cocoa, and flowers decorate the perfume. The wine is medium-bodied, elegant, fresh, and polished, with silky tannins, and freshness, as well as a nice dollop of dark chocolate in the finish. The wine blends 89% Merlot with 11% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2039. 91-93 Pts. 793 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clarendelle (Pessac-Léognan)
Tobacco leaves with soft, juicy currants provide an early-drinking, elegant, fruity, and fresh example of Pessac Leognan, that is ready to go on release. Enjoy it over the next few years. Drink from 2026-2031. 89-91 Pts. 590 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Yellow tropical fruits, flowers, and green apples, with a hint of vanilla are ready to be enjoyed, in the nose, and on the forward, sweet, juicy, palate. This is ready-to-go as soon as it hits the stores. It is interesting to note that Clos des Lunes was the first wine being offered as a future from the 2023 vintage. The wine blends 70% Semillon with 30% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2025-2030. 91 Pts. 991 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Tobacco, cedar, savory herbs, flowers, currants, cocoa, spice, and licorice pop without asking in the nose. On the palate, the wine is even better. Medium-bodied, racy, fresh, vibrant, and also loaded with fresh, vivid, black, red, and blue fruits, spice, mint, and dark chocolate. The end note lingers with the perfect blend of refreshing acidities, and lush, silky, velvety fruits. The wine is a blend of 53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot. 13.9% ABV, 3.75 pH. Drink from 2028-2043. 92-94 Pts. 1,081 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Amphora Wine Clavis Orea (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Espresso, black cherries, and chocolate open this forward, round, creamy, fresh, medium-bodied wine. I like the zesty, red berry, and chocolatey finish with its freshness, and ripe, black cherry end note. However, the wine expresses an oaky character that if it better integrates, it will be a better wine. So, let it age a year or two. Drink from 2027-2036. 90-92 Pts. 582 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Chalky, ripe, dark, red fruits, licorice, black cherries, espresso, and dark chocolate nuances are ripe, fresh, round, and chewy. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 604 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lynch-Bages Blanc de Lynch-Bages (Bordeaux)
Yellow citrus, pomelo, flowers, white peach, Granny Smith apples, and lemon curd notes blend together perfectly in the nose, and on the palate, leaving you with a citrusy, tropical note in the finish. The wine is produced from blending 81% Sauvignon Blanc, 11% Semillon, and 8% Muscadelle. Drink from 2024-2033. 93 Pts. 789 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Valandraud Blanc de Valandraud (Bordeaux)
I love the purity in the fruits, there is intensity in the green apples, lemons, mangos, white peaches, and pineapples. The fruits are vivid, crisp, clean, and a touch salty, making you want to take another sniff, and sip, just for pleasure. The wine blends 53% Sauvignon Gris, 40% Sauvignon Blanc, 7% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2037. 94 Pts. 697 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Brane-Cantenac Le Baron de Brane (Margaux)
Cedar, cigar wrapper, spice and red berry aromas create the perfume. On the palate, the wine is round, chocolatey, forward, and soft, with layers of ripe, creamy, black cherries, and a touch of dust to the tannins with a bit of peppery, spearmint that adds complexity to the endnote. This baby Brane is perfect to enjoy on release while waiting for the Grand Vin to develop. The wine blends 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, 1% Carmenere, and 1% Petit Verdot, 13.8% ABV. Drink from 2026-2040. 801 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Carillon de l'Angélus (St. Émilion)
Flowers, licorice, cherries, plums, black raspberries, vanilla, and a hint of spice open the perfume. On the palate, the wine is polished, soft, and displays red pit fruits, chalk, and spice that you taste, and feel on the palate, and in the finish, with a touch of refreshing mint on the backend. The wine blends 90% Merlot, with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 768 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Carruades de Lafite (Pauillac)
Spicy, floral, and fruity in the nose, with its red, black, and blue aromatics, you quickly move to the soft, silky, elegant, fragrant, medium-bodied palate. This is a bright, fresh, charming wine that even though it does not feel weighty, it is sneaky in its length, as it lingers on the palate, with fruit, as well as freshness. The wine is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 40% Merlot. It is interesting to note this is the first vintage in ages, if not ever, with only 2 vintages in the blend. 13.2% ABV, 3.7 pH. The wine consists of roughly 35% of the harvest.15% press wine. Drink from 2027-2042. 92-94 Pts. 1,189 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Chapelle d'Ausone (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Violets, roses, black raspberries, licorice, and cherry aromatics carry the perfume. On the palate, the wine is elegant, polished, sweet, and lively. The tannins are soft, the fruits are lifted, and creamy. There is a vibrance, and energy here with an understated approach this is perfect for the vintage. It is difficult to believe this is a second wine. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Franc, 35% Merlot, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2028-2047. 93-95 Pts. 780 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Tronquoy (St. Estèphe)
Flowers, mint, cherries, and a whisp of smoke fill the perfume. Medium-bodied, forward, fresh, supple, and focused on its sweet, vibrant, core of red fruit, you can enjoy this on release, and over the following decade with ease. The wine blends 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot, and 11% Petit Verdot. 13.2% ABV. Drink from 2026-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,340 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château La Croizille (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, espresso, and plums pop in the aromatic profile. The wine is medium-bodied, juicy, fresh, and creamy, with soft, polished, sweet, red plums and licorice in the finish. You can enjoy this young, or age it for more complexity. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 594 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Adaugusta (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Forward, fresh, medium-bodied, fruity, with a lean to the red cherry side, made even better with a juicy touch of citrus, and cocoa in the easy-going, soft-textured finish. The wine is going to be easy to taste on release. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 596 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Alcée (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Flowers, blackberries, black cherries, and licorice, with a touch of spicy chocolate shows well in the nose, and on the medium-bodied palate. The wine is round, juicy, and fresh, with sweetness, lift, and a refreshing, spicy note on the backend in the finish. The wine was produced from 88% Merlot with 12% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2036. 91-93 Pts. 755 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Angélus (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The nose pops with its bouquet of flowers, mint, tobacco leaf, licorice, and black cherries, The essence in this wine it its purity balanced with its racy, freshness. The finish delivers soft, long, energetic, red berries with nuances of espresso, chalk, crushed stone, cherries, plums, and cocoa. There is depth, and concentration but the wine feels light on its feet. The Cabernet Franc makes an impression in 2023. The team was nervous about the vintage until the first days in September before they knew the vintage was going to be special. The key to the vintage was in part due to longer fermentations at cooler temperatures, which never rose above 22 Celsius, along with no sulfur during the fermentations which aided the wines elegance and purity. The wine blends 60% Merlot, with 40% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV, 3.65 pH. Harvesting took place, September 6 - September 28. Drink from 2029-2060. 96-98 Pts. 3,530 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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No 3 d'Angelus (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Fruity, and fresh in the nose, the wine is medium-bodied, soft, forward, and juicy, with sweetness, and lift from the mid-palate, which carries its red berry character through to the finish. You can enjoy this on release and over the next decade. The wine blends 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2033. 89-91 Pts. 638 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Auguste (Bordeaux)
Espresso, cherries and licorice fill the medium-bodied, forward, early drinking charmer. You can enjoy this on release. Drink from 2026-2031. 88-89 Pts. 562 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Ausone (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Dark garnet in color, the wine is intensely floral, with lilacs, violets, roses, licorice, espresso, black raspberries, black cherries, and red currants. As good as the nose is, the palate is even better. The wine is rich, intense, and most importantly, elegant. There is a majestic sense of lift, purity, and refinement that is complimented by the strong touch its oceanic influence felt on its layers of dark red, black, and blue fruits, espresso, and spice. The seamless finish lingers long after the wine has left the glass. The key to the vintage here is the late, and light September rains that refreshed the Cabernet Franc just before harvesting. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Franc with 40% Merlot.14.2% ABV, 3.63 pH. Harvesting took place September 14-19 for the Merlot ,and September 25-30 for the Cabernet Franc. 2,000 cases were produced. Drink from 2030-2065. 97-99 Pts. 1,313 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Badette (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Creamy, with a strong oak accent, the wine focuses on its espresso, dark chocolate, and black cherry core. Concentrated, bright, and chewy, this is going to need time to allow the oak to integrate fully into the wine. Drink from 2028-2040. 91-93 Pts. 646 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Barde-Haut (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deeply colored, the wine pops with flowers, licorice, bacon fat, mint, cherries, and black plums create the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine balances its supple, characteristics with its vibrant side to produce a creamy, mineral-driven, red berry filled wine with energy, softness and a crushed-rock, cherry-infused finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc.14.55% ABV, 3.4 pH. Drink from 2027-2045. 93-95 Pts. 1,796 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Baret (Pessac-Léognan)
Bright, fresh, medium-bodied, crisp, smoky and vibrant at its core, this will be quite nice to enjoy on release. The wine is blend of 70% Merlot, and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 648 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Bastor-Lamontagne (Sauternes)
Candied lemons, pineapple, marmalade, and white peaches with honey on the nose are perfect for the medium-bodied, fresh, sweet, palate. This lighter, fresher, Sauternes is a nice wine to pair with savory courses, or serve as an aperitif. Drink from 2026-2040. 91-93 Pts. 767 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Batailley (Pauillac)
Soft, round, ripe, creamy, vibrant, black, and red fruits are all over the place here, in the nose, and on the palate. The wine has character, soft, creamy tannins, and the ability to be enjoyed in its youth, but as it ages as well. The wine is a blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot. 13.7% ABV. 93-95 Pts. 3,945 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Lions de Batailley (Pauillac)
Supple, soft, round, and creamy, the wine is packed with dark, red berries that offer lift, sweetness, character, and drinkability. The wine blends 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, and 3% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts 710 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Beau-Séjour Bécot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The intensity, length, and purity are impossible to ignore this year. The wine offers strong floral characteristics coupled with sweet, ripe, red cherries, licorice, black raspberries, and a hint of cocoa. The wine is silky, elegant, long, and refined. The fruit is incredibly, soft, sweet, and pure. The key point in the vintage was their water-retentive, limestone terroir that nourished the vines during the dry part of the growing season. 2023 is the first vintage produced in the estates new cellars, which allowed for precision wine making, which was needed in this difficult vintage. The aging is different starting with the 2023 as well, now the wine is aged in 55% new, French oak barrels, with 20% of the harvest aging in foudres. The wine blends 77% Merlot, with 22% Cabernet Franc. 14.1%, ABV, 3.5 pH. The harvest took place, September 7 - October 4. Drink from 2029-2060. 96-98 Pts. 3,431 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Beau-Site (St. Estèphe)
Cedar, mint leaves, tobacco, currants, and flowers blend together in this forward, fresh, lifted, vibrant, medium-bodied, chewy wine. There's a lot of character here without a big price tag. The wine blends 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, and 2% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts. 743 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Haut-Vignoble Seguin (St. Estèphe)
Forward, easy-to-like, and easy-to-drink, medium-bodied, cherry, and currant-filled wine for early-drinking pleasure. Drink from 2023-2030. 86-88 Pts. 626 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Beaumont (Haut-Médoc)
Spicy, fresh, forward, charming, medium-bodied, Left Bank wine that offers drinkability, and character that sells for a song. If you are looking for value, check this out. The wine blends 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 6% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 1,218 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Beauregard (Pomerol)
Chocolate, flowers, black cherries, plums, spice, truffle, and licorice nuances open the nose. On the palate, the wine is soft, polished, fresh, dark, and chewy, with chalky, dark red pit fruits, along with touches of orange rind, espresso, and cocoa on the backend. Give this just a few years, and it will be fully ready-to-go. The wine blends 74% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2042. 13.5% ABV. 92-94 Pts. 849 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse) (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Quite floral in nature, the perfume adds nuances of cherries, licorice, red fruits, cocoa, and spice. The medium-bodied palate balances its freshness, elegance, silky tannins, and most importantly, purity in its layers of sweet, ripe, red fruits. Complex, and refined, everything is in balance here with no hard edges. The lingering finish delivers layers of vibrant red berries. This is effortless to drink. But, do not let that fool you, as this is also a candidate for decades of aging. The wine blends 70% Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV, 3.41 pH. The harvest took place September 13 - September 29 for the Merlot, and October 2-3 for Cabernet Franc. This is the longest harvest in the history of the estate. Drink from 2028- 2055. 97-99 Pts. 2,309 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Croix de Beauséjour (Duffau Lagarrosse) (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
There is ample freshness here. You sense this in the nose, with its black raspberries, and flowery presence, as well as on the medium-bodied palate, with its vibrant, red fruits, peppery spice, and refined, minty-edged finish. This should be delicious on release. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts 688 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Beauséjour (Fronsac) Cuvée Prestige (Fronsac)
Leafy herbs, tobacco, and cherries form the core of this medium-bodied, bright, red cherry, and red plum wine. The finish is bright, crisp, and fresh. Drink from 2026-2032. 87-89 Pts. 595 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Beauvillage (Médoc)
Medium-bodied, soft, supple, fresh, fruity, and creamy, with a core of ripe, sweet, black cherries, licorice and cocoa, this is a delicious, early-drinking charmer. Drink from 2026-2036. 760 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Bel-Air (Pomerol)
Flowers, wet earth, and dark cherries form the core of this medium-bodied, forward, chewy Merlot wine that finishes with a touch of citrus on top of the cherries, with a nice hint of chocolate-mint in the backend. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 641 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Belair-Monange Annonce de Bélair-Monange (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, soft, fresh, fruity, and forward, this is going to be delicious on release with all of its upfront, sweet, ripe cherries, chocolate, and plums. Produced from 98% Merlot, with 2% Cabernet Franc, this is the second wine of Belair Monange. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 672 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Belair-Monange (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The second vintage produced in the new cellars opens with flowers, crushed rocks, black cherries, cocoa, and spice. The wine is lifted, and fresh, with vitality, coupled with sweetness to the fruits, elegant tannins, and good energy on the palate. The mineral-driven finish serves up its display of crushed rocks, oceanic influences, mint, Indian spices, and bright red fruits effortlessly. There is length, and a raciness to the fruits in the finish that allows the wine to linger long after the wine has left the glass. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2029-2055. 95-97 Pts. 969 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Belgrave (Haut-Médoc)
Tobacco leaves, spearmint, and black currants with background notes of licorice, and flowers create the character here. The mid-palate, and finish wrap everything up nicely with soft, polished, fresh, red berries, mint, and a dash of chocolate. Drink from 2027-2044. 91-93 Pts. 1,227 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Belle-Vue (Haut-Médoc) (Haut-Médoc)
Sweet, black raspberries, peppery spice, and flowers crowd into the perfume. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, fresh, fruity, medium-bodied, spicy, and chewy, leaving you with lift, spice and a refreshing touch of mint in the finish. It is interesting to note that Belle-Vue is one of the few Bordeaux wines produced using 5 allowable grape varieties. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts 917 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Bellefont-Belcier (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Spice, crushed rocks, flowers, red plums, incense, and mint create the nose. On the palate, the wine is racy, silky, lifted, elegant, and polished, with cocoa-topped black cherries, and plums from start to finish. The wine blends 72% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon.14.5% ABV, 3.56 pH. Harvesting took place September 19 - October 5. Drink from 2027 - 2048. 93-95 Pts. 1,422 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Bellegrave (Pomerol) (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, fresh, forward, fruity, light in weight, with a soft, early-drinking, forward character. You can enjoy this on release and over the near term. Drink from 2026-2034. 88-90 Pts. 635 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Bellegrave (Pauillac) (Pauillac)
Currants, flowers, tobacco, cedar, and black cherries with soft, creamy tannins, and a refreshing, mint, and red currant finish is what you will find here. And it is going to be easy to enjoy on release too! Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 703 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Bellegrave du Poujeau (Haut-Médoc)
Savory-edged, mint-accented, red fruits with a refreshing, herbal edge, leaves you with a fresh bright, chewy, red currant finish. Drink from 2026-2035. 88-90 Pts. 772 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Bellerive (Médoc)
Medium-bodied, with a core of black currants, smoke, cherries, and herbs is going to provide early, drinking, mildly rustic pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2034. 86-88 Pts 648 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Bellevue (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The wine pops with aromas of roses, violets, cherries, plum, and cocoa. Balanced between its racy, and elegant side, the wine is long, vibrant, clean, and pure, with silky, velvet-tannins, and a refined character in the finish that sticks with you. While the wine feels light on its feet, the finish really holds on, leaving you with vivid, sweet, red cherries that linger. The key to the wine here is the length of the harvest as they spent 3 weeks picking 3 hectares of vines! Produced from 100% old, vine Merlot, 14% ABV. Drink from 2027-2045. 93-95 Pts. 846 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Bellevue de Tayac (Margaux)
Medium-bodied, forward, and already open, with just a swirl and sip, it is easy to find the sweet, dark cherries with their espresso and cocoa edge in the nose, and on the palate. Drink from 2026-2037. 87-89 Pts. 767 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Berliquet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With a single swirl, the wine is floral, with raspberries, black cherries, plums, cigar wrapper and spice. The wine is medium-bodied, elegant, energetic, and spicy, with layers of sweet, and pure, red berries with lift, and energy that you feel on the mineral-accented backend. This is the first vintage produced in the irnew cellar, which expanded from 9 tanks to 24 vats, allowing for parcel by parcel vinification. You can taste and feel the difference here. The wine blends 59% Merlot, with 41% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV. Drink from 2026-2048. 93-95 Pts. 980 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Bernadotte (Haut-Médoc)
Flowers, tobacco, spearmint, and currants blend together to form this medium-bodied, juicy, fruit-filled, firm wine that leaves you with a refreshing, herbal, edge that rides along with its red berries. Drink from 2026-2038. 89-91 Pts. 652 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Amiral de Beychevelle (St. Julien)
Flowers, and black cherries form the nose. The palate is loaded with sweet, ripe cherries, currants, spice, and licorice, Round, forward, and supple, this will be delicious on release, and for at least a decade or more. The wine is produced from 51% Merlot with 49% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 836 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Beychevelle (St. Julien)
Black, red, and blue fruit, with a hint of chocolate, flowers, and espresso jump from the nose. The palate is packed with layers of supple, black cherries, vibrant black currants, cocoa, spice, black raspberries, and espresso. Energetic, medium-bodied, long, and intense, with purity, and lift, this is going to offer fabulous drinking with just a few years in the cellar. The key to the vintage this year was patience, which was to find the perfect moment to harvest. The wine blends 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot. This is the highest percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon ever used in the blend! 13.3% ABV, pH 3.67. The harvest took place September 13 - October 6. This is the longest harvest on record. 50% of the harvest was placed into the Grand Vin. Drink from 2029-2060. 94-96 Pts. 1,854 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Issan Blason d'Issan (Margaux)
Flowers, spice, and ripe, red berries create the main focus of the wine here. Medium-bodied, soft, juicy, and fresh, with soft, silky tannins, and sweetness, with a cherry-filled finish. Give this a year to soften, and it will be perfect for near-term drinking while waiting for the Grand Vin to develop. Drink from 2026-2037. 89-91 Pts. 991 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Bonalgue (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, fresh, silky, and vibrant, the wine leans to its elegant, fruity side, with soft, refined tannins, and sweet, ripe, dark, cherries, with plums in the finish. Give it a year or two in the cellar, and it will be even better. The wine is made from blending 95% Merlot with 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2042. 90-92 Pts. 732 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Bouscaut Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
White peach, vanilla, lemon curd, spice, and pineapple aromas are all over the place. On the palate, the wine is zesty, spicy, crisp, and racy, with a juicy, yellow citrus finish that leaves you with a hint of spice, and marzipan on the backend. The wine is a blend of 59% Sauvignon Blanc, with 41% Semillon. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2025-2032. 93 Pts. 839 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Branaire-Ducru (St. Julien)
Showing a depth in the color, aromatically, the wine exudes blackberries, plums, charcoal, tobacco, black currants, cinnamon, and flowers in the perfume. Palate-wise, the wine is perfectly balanced between its silky textures and vibrant acidities. The finish is soft, polished, refined, and flavorful, leaving you with hints of turmeric, chocolate, and sweet, black currants. This is clearly a top vintage of Branaire Ducru! The length of the harvest, with the extra hang time, gave the team the chance to pick when they wanted to. This is a wine that is going to age quite well, yet it will be delicious to drink with just a few years of aging. The wine blends 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5.5% Cabernet Franc, and 3.5% Petit Verdot. 13.1% ABV, 3.63 pH. The harvest took place September 12 - October 4. Yields were large at 53 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2028-2060. 93-95 Pts. 3,743 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Chewy, with an herbal, floral, bright, firm character from start to finish, give it a year or two in the bottle to round out its edges. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 921 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Brane-Cantenac Blanc (Bordeaux)
Fresh cut lawn grass, green apples, white peach, and pineapple aromas take no effort to find. On the palate, the wine is soft, fresh, creamy and delivers its citrus, and sweet pineapples from start to finish. This is already delicious in your glass. The wine blends 62% Sauvignon with 28% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2033. 686 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Brane-Cantenac (Margaux)
Cuban cigars, cedar, cassis, spice, forest floor, and flowers open the perfume. On the palate, the wine shines with its silky textures, vibrancy, and hints of salty rocks that ride along effortlessly, with its layers of, sweet, ripe, black with red fruits. There is length, and refinement. Taking close to 1 month to harvest is what the difference with 2023. This is another vintage that Brane Cantenac lovers should have in their cellars. The wine blends 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and 1% Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and Carmenere. 13.5% ABV, 3.77 pH. The harvest took place September 4 - October 2. The Grand Vin was produced from only 40% of the harvest. Drink from 2029-2055. 95-97 Pts. 5,859 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Bernon Bécot Grand Vin (Puisseguin-St. Émilion)
Black cherries, raspberries, flowers and citrus shine in this medium-bodied, forward, early-drinking charmer. Enjoy this over the new term for all of its up-front fruit. Drink from 2026-2032. 87-89 Pts 616 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Broustet (Sauternes)
Roasted nuts, and pineapples with floral accents shine here. The wine is perfect for early-drinking pleasure with honey, pineapple, and cashew character. The is going to be delicious as a chilled aperitif, or with savory courses. Drink from 2026-2038. 89-91 Pts. 595 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cadet-Bon (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Supple, creamy, and fresh, the wine is loaded with chocolate-covered black cherries, plums, licorice, espresso, and refreshing hints of mint. The wine has concentration, and polished textures, with loads of sweet, ripe fruits, and more of that refreshing mint nuance in the finish. The wine blends 70% Merlot, with 30% Cabernet Franc. For the first time, 8% of the wine was whole bunch fermented. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 661 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Calon-Ségur (St. Estèphe)
The black fruits, dark red berries, flowers, licorice, spice, smoke, and crème de cassis in the perfume is a knockout! The wine is rich, balanced, well-defined, supple, creamy, and vibrant. The fruits have weight, depth, length, and purity. The concentrated layers of fruit start off strong, and keep on going. The refreshing waves of red with black fruits, sprig of mint, and touches of spice hang with you for close to 50 seconds in the up-beat finish. The wine blends 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. 14% ABV, 3.7 pH. The harvest took place September 6 - September 30. Only 55% of the harvest was placed into the Grand Vin. Drink from 2030-2060. 95-97 Pts. 4,666 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cambon La Pelouse (Haut-Médoc)
There is a wealth of sweet, ripe, juicy, vibrant, chewy red fruits with a savory here, on the nose, and palate. Forward, fresh, and vibrant, this is going to be great on release for its lift, touch of chocolate, and red berries in the finish. Drink from 2026-2039. 89-91 Pts. 1,032 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Canon (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Violets, roses, and lilacs kick off the floral display. You also find cherries, plums, black raspberries, cigar box, and spice, with a touch of licorice. There is a balance between the vivacity, and sweetness, a strong sense of crushed rocks, and stones, depth, and intensity. The finish is racy, in all the best ways, which is the perfect backdrop for the wine's layers of salt-tinged fruits that linger. The best part of the wine is that the fruit expresses a beautiful sense of purity, with no hard . edges. The wine blends 71% Merlot with 29% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV. 3.41. Harvesting took place September 6 - October 4. The length of the harvest is one of the key points to the vintage, as the estate was able to stop, start, and wait for phenolic ripeness. Drink from 2030- 2060. 97-99 Pts. 2,979 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Canon Chaigneau (Lalande de Pomerol)
Red fruits, licorice, dark cocoa, spice, and espresso form the core here. The wine is medium-bodied, forward, and a bit oaky on the palate at the moment, as well as over extracted. If the wine better integrates, it will be a better wine. The wine blends 93% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Malbec. Drink from 2027-2033. 88-90 Pts. 882 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Canon-la-Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The perfume is similar to walking into a flower shop, carrying a basket of black raspberries, peppery cherries, and plums. Silky, refined, long, pure, and elegant, the fruit lingers on your palate, as well as in the finish, with touches of spice, mint, cigar wrappers, and licorice. The success of the vintage is due to finding phenolic ripeness in each parcel, coupled with gentle extractions. The wine blends 45% Cabernet Franc, 35% Merlot, and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. 13% ABV. The harvest took place September 20-29. Drink from 2028-2050. 95-97 Pts. 2,429 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cantelys (Pessac-Léognan)
Tobacco leaf, cedar, spearmint, and cherries pop in the nose, and on the fresh, medium-bodied, soft, fresh, palate. The wine finishes with a touch of herbs that come though in the endnote. Drink from 2026-2035. 89-91 Pts. 616 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cantelys Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Pineapple, yellow citrus. white peach and mango notes shine through in the nose, and on the fresh, almost, zesty, creamy, palate. Drink from 2025-2030. 91 Pts. 627 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
AltO de Cantenac Brown Blanc (Bordeaux)
Ripe pineapples, white peach, tangerine, and white flowers create the perfume, and the core of the wine. The palate is round, fruity, lush, and fresh, with a pineapple, and lemon peel-focused finish. The wine was produced from a blend of 90% Sauvignon Blanc and 10% Semillon. Drink 2025-2031. 91 Pts. 951 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cantenac Brown BriO (Margaux)
The black cherries, cedar, and tobacco in the nose are easy to spot. Lush, round, dark, and loaded with chocolate-covered cherries, spice, and licorice, the wine is already pure pleasure in the glass. The wine blends 53% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 2% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2036. 91-93 Pts. 759 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cantenac Brown (Margaux)
2023 is the first vintage produced in the new, state-of-the-art gravity cellars, which really made a difference this year. Sporting a dark hue, the intense aromatic profile shoots out its blackberry, espresso, flowers, cherries, and truffle with only a single swirl. On the palate, the wine is opulent, powerful, rich, and intense, yet, it is also light on its feet due to its complementing acidities. The finish is long, intense, energetic, and rich, with layers of sweet, polished, luscious fruits, with just a hint of spice, and peppery cocoa on the back end. The wine is a blend of 71.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, and 1.5% Petit Verdot. 13.6% ABV, 3.64 pH. The Grand Vin was produced using only 52% of the harvest. Picking took place September 7 - October 6, making this the longest harvest in the history of the estate. Drink from 2029-2055. 94-96 Pts. 1,996 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cantereau (Pomerol)
Produced from 100% Merlot, the medium-bodied wine is forward, fruity, with chocolate, and plums, with a nice hint of truffles, adding complexity to the nose, and the finish. Drink from 2026-2035. 88-90 Pts. 579 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cantin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, spice, flowers, and cherries load up the aromatic profile. The palate continues with that theme with its medium-bodied, creamy, silky, fruity, and forward. You can enjoy this on release and for over a decade after that. Drink from 2027-2040. 90-92 Pts. 616 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cap d'Or (St. Georges-St. Émilion)
Licorice, spice, and black cherries form the core of this wine. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, bright, fresh, and juicy, with a sweet, black raspberry, and herb character in the finish. This will be at its best over the near term. The wine blends 84% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 828 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cap de Faugères (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Licorice, black cherries, and chocolate create the forward, soft, round, and creamy character here. Medium-bodied, with freshness, and energy, this is going to be delicious on release. The wine was blended with 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,175 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cap de Mourlin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Juicy, sweet, red, with black plums, cherries, espresso and dark chocolate notes are all over the place here in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, round-textured palate. There is vibrancy as well as creamy tannins making this easy to enjoy with just a year or two of release. Drink from 2027-2039. 90-92 Pts. 642 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cap Saint George (St. Georges-St. Émilion)
Spearmint, tobacco, spice, red berries, and cigar wrappers create the character here. Soft, fresh, and fruity, with sweetness to the cherries, raspberries, and plums on the palate, vibrant, forward, red pit fruit filled wine is going to be delicious on release. The blends 88% Merlot, and 12% Cabernet Sauvignon. This is perfect for early drinking pleasure, yet it can be aged for more complexity as well. Drink from 2026-2035. 90-92 Pts. 639 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Capbern (St. Estèphe)
Mint, tobacco leaf, cedar, cherries, and currants pop in the nose. The medium-bodied, refined, soft, forward, fruity-palate is going to provide delicious drinking on release. The wine blends 69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc. 14.6% ABV, 3.7 pH. Drink from 2026-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,285 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Capet-Guillier (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Forward, with an elegant charm, the wine offers its chocolate-covered cherries, espresso, and licorice characteristics with ease. Medium-bodied, with ripe, fresh, fruits, and more chocolate in the finish, this will be easy to enjoy on the young side. The wine blends 70% Merlot, with 30% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2038. 91-93 Pts. 668 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Carbonnieux (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, black raspberries, smoke, tobacco, and a sprig of mint create the perfume. The medium-bodied palate is soft, polished, fresh, racy, and round, finishing with chocolate-covered cherries, espresso, and a touch of spice on the sweet, and fruity, backend. The wine blends 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot. 14% ABV. 3.64. Drink from 2027-2045. 91-93 Pts. 1,112 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Carbonnieux Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Granny Smith apples, flowers, lemon rind, honeysuckle, white peach, and pineapple is there with just a swirl or two in the perfume. Vibrant, fresh, and fruity with sweetness, spice, roundness, finishing with pineapples, white peach, and lemon curd, with the touch of crushed sones in the backend. The wine blends 65% Sauvignon Blanc and 35% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2035. 93 Pts. 1,212 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Certan de May (Pomerol)
Black raspberries, truffle, flowers, plums, and chocolate show easily in the nose. The wine is elegant, soft, refined, and silky on the palate, finishing with dark chocolate, ripe, black cherries, plums, and a touch of orange rind on the backend. The wine blends 65% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 973 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Charmail (Haut-Médoc)
Floral, with cedar, tobacco, camphor, and bright, red fruits from start to finish, the wine is creamy on the palate, with a fresh, fruity finish. This is one of those super value wines from the Haut Medoc that savvy wine buyers should be all over. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 963 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Chasse-Spleen (Moulis en Médoc)
Flowers, herbs, cedar, tobacco, and red berries, shine in this medium-bodied, fresh, bright, effort, The wine is crisp, and chewy, with a chalky, firm finish. Drink from 2026-2043. 89-91 Pts. 1,561 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Chauvin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Espresso, licorice, and black cherry notes open the wine. The medium-bodied palate is soft, fragrant, and fresh, delivering a lot of sweet, though, firm, red fruits with energy, as well as a chalky texture on the palate, and in the finish. You can either enjoy this just about on release, or wait a bit, for more complexity. Drink from 2026-2038. 89-91 Pts. 786 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cheval Blanc (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The Cabernet Franc makes a strong impression in the nose with its tobacco, flowers, black, with red fruits, chocolate, orange skin, and mint leaf in the nose. However, it is on the palate with its length, purity, vibrance, elegance, and refinement that is the star of the show. The wine starts slow, building in intensity as it lingers. But once it gets going, you find layer, after layer of vibrant, silky, electric fruits. Perfectly ripe, balanced, and fresh, the finish holds with you for close to 60 seconds. The chateau thinks it is better than the 2022, I am not sure. But, I am ready to blind taste both, again, and again to find out for sure. The key to the vintage this year is the uniqueness, and inclusion of each parcel. With 2023, all 41 parcels produced fruit used in the Grand Vin allowing for a true representation of the vineyard into the wine. In other words, 2023 is a vintage where the terroir provides the shape, and character to the wine, more than the climatic conditions. The wine is made from 52% Merlot, 46% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon. 13.65% ABV, 3.8 pH. The harvest began September 6 for the Merlot. The Cabernet Franc took place September 12 - October 3. Drink from 2030-2065. 97-99 Pts. 2,142 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Petit Cheval (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Cherry blossoms, chocolate, plums, black cherries, and flowers create the aromatics. Medium-bodied, silky, elegant, and fresh, with a voluptuous texture that sets the table for the chocolate-covered black cherries, plums, and truffles. The wine is perfectly balanced between its freshness, and its opulent, nature. There was a time when second wines were simply second wines. Clearly, that is no longer the case. You can enjoy this on release and for the following 2 decades after that. The wine blends 50% Cabernet Franc, with 50% Merlot. Drink from 2027-2042. 93-95 Pts. 946 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cissac (Haut-Médoc)
Cedar, herbs, tobacco, and currants are readily apparent in this fresh, and fruity, medium-bodied charmer. The fruits are sweet, and chewy, with a spicy, minty edge. Drink from 2026-2040. 88-90 Pts. 813 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Citran (Haut-Médoc)
Medium-bodied, fresh, bright, red berries with floral accents come through easily in the medium-bodied, vibrant, crisp, chalky palate. Drink from 2027-2042. 88-90 Pts. 854 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clarisse Cuvée Vieilles Vignes (Puisseguin-St. Émilion)
Flowers, herbs, spice, and leafy nuances create the core here, in the nose, and on the palate. The wine is fresh, with a marine influence to the fruits from start to finish. Drink from 2026-2037. 89-91 Pts. 615 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Forward, fruity, medium-bodied, with tobacco, and floral accents, the cherry filled, soft-textured wine is already easy-to-drink, with a chocolate edge to the finish. Chateau Clarke is one of the very few wines in the Medoc that is planted to 100% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2037. 89-91 Pts. 721 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clement-Pichon (Haut-Médoc)
Tobacco, herbs, cigar wrapper, flowers, and currants form the core of the wine in the nose, and on the palate. Forward, round, fruity, and savory, with ample, savory fruits on the palate, and in the finish. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. The wine blends 81% Cabernet Sauvignon, with 19% Merlot. 13.3% ABV. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 653 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clerc Milon (Pauillac)
Cedar, flowers, mint, and red currants with a hint of Indian spice blend to produce the perfume. On the palate, the wine is fresh, silky, and refined, with a purity to the red fruits, along with a touch of spice that lingers in the finish. While this will be delicious young, give it a bit of time in the bottle, as it will improve with age. Picking took place September 7-September 29. The wine blends 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 6.5% Cabernet Franc, 1.5% Petit Verdot, and 1.5% Carmenere. 13.5% ABV, 3.83 pH. Drink from 2027-2050. 93-95 Pts. 1,962 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clerc Milon Pastourelle de Clerc Milon (Pauillac)
Flowers, spice, wet earth, and red berries define the core of this wine. Medium-bodied, forward, fresh, and elegant, the wine is fruity, juicy, and charming, with just a hint of chocolate at the end of the finish. The wine blends 63% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc, 2% Carmenere, and 1% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2026-2034. 90-92 Pts. 669 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clinet (Pomerol)
Lilacs, violets, smoke, spice, cherries, plums, licorice, orange rind, and chocolate mint fill the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is energetic, vibrant, long, and up-beat. The fruit offers purity, persistence, length, and width. It takes a few sips before you find its heart. But, once you do, it's apparent that the layers of vibrant, red fruits, complicated by the nuances of orange zest, are special. The refined, silky, finish builds as it lingers. The keys to the vintage here were the combination of cloudy summer skies with heat spells in September. In the cellars this is the first vintage with a pre-maceration cool-down which helped protect the grapes from oxidation. The wine blends 75% Merlot with 25% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14% ABV, 3.7 pH. Harvesting took place September 13 - September 20 for the Merlot, and September 25-26 for the Cabernet. Drink from 2027-2060. 95-97 Pts. 1,704 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clos Beauséjour (Pomerol)
Sweet, juicy, fresh, and vibrant, with a core of ripe, bright, red cherries, soft-tannins, and a creamy, fruity finish. Drink from 2023-2034. 89-91 Pts. 585 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos de Boüard (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Quite floral in its nature, the wine is fresh, fruity, elegant, lively, and packed with crushed rocks, sweet cherries, spice, espresso, licorice, and chocolate. Medium-bodied, with sweetness, and ripe berries with hints of salty cocoa, and racy acidities, this will offer pleasure in its youth, as well as age for over a decade. The wine blends 85% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2038. 91-93 Pts. 694 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clos de Sarpe (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The oceanic influence is what you initially smell before getting to all of the flowers, black raspberries, plums, licorice, and chocolate. Vibrant, fresh, and quite spicy, with a salty, peppery edge to the bright red fruits on the palate. But, it is the crushed rock character that is quite strong, giving the wine vitality, and a uniqueness of character. Give it time to come together. It is worth the wait. Drink from 2029-2055. 92-94 Pts. 735 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clos Haut-Peyraguey (Sauternes)
Caramel, brown sugar, roasted pineapples, vanilla, toasted orange peels, spice, candied oranges and apricots combine and make it happen in the nose, and palate. work together to create the attention seeking perfume. What's not to like? It is unctuous, spicy, racy, lush, ripe, and sweet On the palate, the wine is viscous, sweet, and intense. You find a wealth of honey-coated pineapples, apricots, mangos, marzipan, vanilla, and spice that are as creamy, and unctuous, as they are fresh, and vibrant. The wine blends 80% Semillon with 20% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2028-2049. 94-96 Pts. 967 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clos Junet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Spicy, floral, and fruity, the dark red berries are round, polished, sweet, and fresh, with licorice, chocolate, and flowers on the medium-bodied palate, and in the bright, fruity, finish. The wine blends 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Malbec. The wine is a Signature Selections Exclusive. Drink from 2026-2035. 89-91 Pts. 635 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Corbin Michotte (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Cherries, flowers, wet earth, espresso and cocoa form the core this wine. The medium-bodied palate is forward, fresh, and oaky in the finish. If the oak becomes better integrated with age, the wine will offer a better experience and a higher score. But, at the moment, the wood dominates the wine. Drink from 2026-2034. 87-89 Pts. 1,004 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cos d'Estournel (St. Estèphe)
It takes some coaxing to find the red, purple, and white floral bouquet, but it comes with swirling, along with Asian spice, smoke, tobacco, and licorice. But, it is the palate that offers thrills with its silky, fresh, opulent textures. There is a vivid quality to the fruit, coupled with a relaxed character, finishing with black, red, and blue fruits complicated by Indian spices. It reminds me of a modern version of the 1990, with selection. The wine was made from blending 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot, and 1% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV, 3.75 pH. The harvest took place September 12 to September 29. This is the first vintage, since 2008 the estate green harvested. The Grand Vin was produced from 53% of the harvest. The wine is going to be approachable early in its life, yet it has the ability to age for decades. Drink from 2029-2060. 96-98 Pts. 5,351 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Cos d'Estournel Blanc (Bordeaux)
Cos d'Estournel Blanc - Bordeaux - Pomelo, lemongrass, flowers, white peach, and crisp, green apples form the bouquet. The palate is zesty, fresh, and spicy, with a flattering crispness to the fruits, paired with a touch of honeysuckle that shines in the endnotes of the finish. This is the first vintage to include the new blocks, bringing the vineyard to 10 hectares of white wine grape varietals. The wine blends 70% Sauvignon Blanc, and 30% Semillon. Drink from 2024-2032. 95 Pts. 902 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Les Pagodes de Cos Blanc (Bordeaux)
Marzipan, white peach, honeysuckle, and lemon grass permeate the nose. The palate is round, bright fresh, and juicy, with white peaches and citrus in the finish. The wine is made from 80% Sauvignon Blanc with 20% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2030. 92 Pts. 727 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Château Cos Labory (St. Estèphe)
The debut vintage produced by the team from Cos d'Estournel. The wine pops with dark red fruits, flowers, and cocoa in the nose. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, chalky, crisp, and chewy, with black raspberries, and chocolate in the finish. The wine blends 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Petit Verdot. 13% ABV. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 848 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Côte de Baleau (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Anise, cherries, flowers, and black raspberries, with accents of espresso show nicely on the nose, and palate. The wine is fresh, spicy, bright, and lifted on the mid-palate, and in the elegant finish, leaving you with touches of dark chocolate, espresso, and sweet, red cherries. This should be quite a pleasure to enjoy on release, and over the next 10-12 years. The wine blends 95% Merlot, with 5% Cabernet Franc, 14% ABV. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 756 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Coufran (Haut-Médoc)
Chocolate, black cherries, licorice, just a hint of espresso, and mint fill the nose, and the medium-bodied, bright, dusty, savory palate. Drink from 2026-2038. 88-90 Pts. 696 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Couhins (Pessac-Léognan)
Black cherries, chocolate, flowers, and espresso form the character here. The medium-bodied palate is round, chewy, and loaded with black cherries, peppery spice, dark chocolate, espresso, and crisp red currants. Bright, and chewy in the finish, give it a few years in the bottle and it promises to be even better. The wine blends 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot. 14 ABV. Drink from 2027-2039. 90-92 Pts. 713 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Couhins Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Lemon grass, green apples, lemon rind, pomelo, and white flowers are easy to spot in the nose, and on the crisp, bright, citrus and pineapple filled palate. Fresh, and juicy, with a powdery texture in the finish, this should be ready-to-go on release. The wine blends 96% Sauvignon Blanc with 4% Sauvignon Gris. Drink from 2025-2032. 91 Pts. 731 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Couhins-Lurton (Pessac-Léognan)
With a bit more Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend than usual, the wine opens with flowers, spice, black raspberries, and black cherries in the nose. Fresh, and fruity on the medium-bodied, palate, the wine is fresh, and vibrant with good energy, and elegance in the fruit-filled finish. This should be delicious to taste on release ,and get even better with a few years in the bottle. The wine is a blend of 85% Merlot, and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14.5% ABV, pH 3.35. Drink from 2026-2040. 92-94 Pts. 675 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Couhins-Lurton Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
White flowers, lemons, grapefruit, green apples, vanilla, and a hint of white peach create the complex aromatic profile. Sweet, fresh, and vibrant, the wine displays its core of yellow citrus, with its salty, white peach accent the palate with ease. The wine is close to 100% whole bunch fermented, and aged in a combination of new, and used French oak barrels, amphora, and finished in stainless steel vats. The wine is always produced with 100% Sauvignon Blanc. 13.5% ABV 3.06 pH. Drink from 2025-2034. 92 Pts. 646 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Flowers, pineapples, candied orange rind, lemon curd, and saffron aromatics are all over the place here in the nose, and palate. The wine is perfectly balanced between its sweet, and zesty side, with ample, honeyed fruit, vanilla, roasted nuts, and over ripe pineapples. This is already simply great, and it is only going to get better from here. Drink from 2027-2050. 95-97 Pts. 3,065 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Croix Cardinale (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, forward, early-drinking charmer with a core of chocolate-covered cherries that is perfect for easy-to-like and early-drinking charm. This is the second wine of Croix Cardinale. Drink from 2026-2032. 88-90 Pts. 649 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Croix de Labrie (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deeply colored, the wine is rich, with dark red, black, and blueberries made even better with the addition of flowers, spice, licorice, and chocolate. There is ample freshness on the palate, paired with silky tannins, and a zesty, spicy, dark berry finish that leaves you with a light touch of citrus on the backend. The wine is produced and bottled with extremely low levels of sulfur. You can enjoy this young, or age it for more complexity, The wine blends 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Cabernet Franc. This is the first vintage with this much Cabernet in the blend. 14.2% ABV. 3.4 pH. The yields were only 27 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2026-2050. 94-96 Pts. 875 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Croix de Labrie Stella Solare Blanc (Bordeaux)
Pineapple, white peach, flowers, green apples, honeysuckle, orange and spice create the complex aromatics. On the palate, the wine is lively, supple, and fruity with a vibrant pineapple, pear and green apple finish. This is already quite a treat in your glass. The wine finishes with sweet, juicy, yellow citrus along with a hint of mango. The wine blends 60% Semillon, 20% Sauvignon Gris, and 20% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2025-2030. 92 Pts. 651 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Croizet-Bages (Pauillac)
Chewy, savory currants, with a minty edge are already expressive in the nose, and in the medium-bodied, chewy, leafy, chalky palate. Give this at least a year or two of aging, and it should be even better. Drink from 2027-2043. 90-92 Pts. 840 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Agassac (Haut-Médoc)
Soft, fresh, fruity, and round, with sweet currants, cherries, licorice, espresso, and floral notes in the nose, and on the palate. The wine is crisp, juicy, soft, and vibrant on the palate, and in the finish. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 796 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Aiguilhe (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
It is the refreshing mouthfeel, along with its chalky character that sets this apart from other wines from the Cotes. Long, ripe, and intense, with vibrancy, the salty, chalky accents to the red pit fruits stand out in the nose, palate, and in the finsh. The wine is made from 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV. Drink from 2027-2039. 92-94 Pts. 1,579 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Aiguilhe Blanc (Bordeaux)
Yellow tropical fruits, white peach, flowers, and orange rind notes pop in the crisp, sweet, and juicy, chalky wine. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2025-2030. 92 Pts. 767 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Aiguilhe Querre (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Forward, medium-bodied, with nuances of black cherries, licorice, crushed stone, and plums at its core. You also find a mid-palate, and finish with layers of chocolate-covered cherries, with a hint of salt on the backend. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2033. 89-91 Pts. 711 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Angludet (Margaux)
Licorice, espresso, flowers, cocoa, herbs, and currants already express their essence on the nose and medium-bodied, fresh, crisp palate. The cherry, and currant finish displays a nice touch of chocolate, touched by oak, and savory herbs in the finish. Already approachable, this will probably be at its best in its youth. Drink from 2026-2038. 88-90 Pts 1,355 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'arce (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Spicy red fruits, flowers, ginger, and raspberries fill the perfume. The medium-bodied wine is fresh, vibrant, aromatic, spicy and lifted, with a soft, supple, spicy, cherry filled mid-palate and finish. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 727 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Arcins (Haut-Médoc)
Flowers, licorice, cedar, tobacco, and cherries come through with ease here. Medium-bodied, vibrant, creamy, and fresh, you can enjoy this for all of its sweet, ripe, cherries, mint, and currants, with their spicy edge. This will be easy-to-taste on release with pleasure. Drink from 2026-2037. 89-91 Pts. 781 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Armailhac (Pauillac)
Flowers, cedar, black raspberries, and currants fill the perfume. The palate is packed with dark cherries, spice, herbs, and currants. Soft, and inviting, with a spicy, minty edge to the fruit in the crisp finish, give it a few years of aging, and it will reward your patience. The wine blends 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot. This is the highest percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon used in the blend in the history of the estate. 13.5% ABV, 3.75 pH. Harvesting took place on September 7-September 30. Drink from 2028-2045. 92-94 Pts. 1,550 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Arsac (Margaux)
Medium-bodied, fresh, vibrant red berries with notes of dried flowers and red currants show in the nose, and on the palate. The finishes with a crispness to the red fruits on the palate, and in the backend of the endnote. Drink from 2027-2040. 88-90 Pts. 820 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Issan (Margaux)
Silky, elegance is the hallmark of this wine. It takes only one sip to know this is special. Concentrated, lush, refined, and rich, there is tension paired with layers of sweet, ripe, opulent fruits that linger. The purity in the mid-palate extends through to the rich, plush finish. The wine is made from a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 2.5% Cabernet Franc, and 2.5% Petit Verdot. 13.83% ABV, 3.66 pH. Picking took place September 18 - October 2, making this one of the longest, and latest harvests in the history of the estate. Drink from 2029-2055. 94-96 Pts. 1,400 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Dalem (Fronsac)
Black cherries, licorice, spice, and floral notes work perfectly in the nose. On the palate the wine is vibrant, fresh, chewy, and a touch salty, leaving you with sweet red fruits, licorice, and a bright, firm, crisp, red pit fruit finish. Drink from 2026-2037. 91-93 Pts. 1,319 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Dassault (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Dark in color, the wine is plush, polished, fresh juicy, and packed with layers of blackberries, black cherries, chocolate, and plums, with length vibrancy, and length in the round, polished, lush, salty, refreshing, spicy finish. This is the first vintage with Thomas Duclos as the consultant at Chateau Dassault. The wine blends 73% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 834 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Dauzac (Margaux)
Flowers, black cherries, espresso, tobacco, and cedar form the core of the character here. On the palate, the medium-bodied wine is soft, fresh, elegant, and round, with fresh, black currants, cherries, cocoa, and chalk from the mid-palate through to the finish. Drink from 2028-2050. 91-93 Pts. 1,339 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Camensac (Haut-Médoc)
Savory herbs with black currants, cedar, flowers, and tobacco blend perfectly in this chewy, fruity wine that will offer easy-pleasure in its youth. A year or two in the cellar will add even more to the wine. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 2,055 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Candale (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Round, forward, sweet, black cherries, with licorice, cocoa, and a sprig of mint come through in the nose, and on the soft, polished palate. This is going to be delicious on release, and should provide pleasure, while improving for at least a decade after that. The wine blends 75% Merlot with 25% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2037. 91-93 Pts. 764 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Carles (Fronsac)
Flowers, and black cherries define the essence of the wine here. On the palate, the wine is soft, polished, and fresh, with chocolate, and plums on the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine was made from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2033. 90-92 Pts. 827 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Chambrun (Lalande de Pomerol)
Rich, lush, soft, round, and focused on its dark cherries, black plum, and crushed stone character. The wine is fruity, and chalky on the palate, with an oaky edge to the finish, which if the wine becomes more integrated, this will score higher. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 775 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Chantegrive (Graves)
Leafy herbs, cocoa, tobacco and cherries show easily in the nose, and on the soft, lifted, red berry palate. Medium-bodied, forward, and with the perfect amount of chocolate to add some roundness to the finish. Drink from 2026-2032. 88-90 Pts. 846 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Chantegrive Blanc (Graves)
Floral in nature, with green apples, spice, and white peach notes that show in the perfume, and on the sweet, ripe, and fresh, juicy palate. Drink from 2025-2030. 91 Pts. 941 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Chantegrive Cuvée Caroline (Graves)
Juicy, fresh, and crisp yellow citrus, flowers, and pineapples, show easily in the nose. The palate, is sweet, ripe, energetic, and fresh, with loads of juicy, yellow citrus in the creamy finish. Drink from 2025-2032. 92 Pts. 949 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Fargues (Sauternes)
Flowers, ripe, sweet, candied pineapples, toasted nuts. mangos and apricots offer intensity, purity, sweetness, and a racy lift. The fruit delivers intensity, lift, length, and a hint of spice that adds complexity to the honey-drenched tropical fruits. Drink from 2027-2055. 95-97 Pts. 1,020 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Ferrand (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
It is easy to find the chocolate-topped, crisp black cherries, flowers, licorice, espresso, and spice in the nose. On the palate, the wine is forward, supple, and vibrant. There is lift, and energy in the mouth, with touches of salty citrus, sweet, plums, cherries, and chocolate from the medium-bodied, mid-palate, through to the energetic, bright, red berry finish. The wine blends 65% Merlot, with 35% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 928 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Fieuzal (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, cherries, black raspberries, plums, and a touch of spice create the perfume. Medium-bodied, with a strong sense of purity to the fruits, coupled with elegance, sweetness, racy tannins, and touches of spice, with herbs in the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 50% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 10% Petit Verdot. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2045. 92-94 Pts. 2,858 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Fieuzal Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, green apples, white peaches, lemon peel, tangerine zest, and honeysuckle form the core here. The wine has vibrancy, elegance, and a touch of chalky dust in the endnotes that accompany all those, sweet, ripe, yellow citrus notes along with a drop or two of vanilla. This will be great in your glass on release. The wine blends 60% Sauvignon Blanc, with 40% Semillon. 13% ABV. Drink from 2025-2030. 92 Pts. 1,034 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Fonbel (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Cherries, licorice, flowers, and a hint of spice fill the perfume. Medium-bodied, silky, elegant, and fresh, with soft, creamy tannins, and sweetness to the red berries on the mid-palate, and in the finish, with a refreshing edge of tobacco leaf on the backend of the finish. The wine blends 64% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 8% Carmenere. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,176 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de France (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, cherries, currants, tobacco, and thyme are elegantly presented in this medium-bodied, vibrant, forward, soft-textured, early-drinking, energetic wine. Drink from 2027-2037. 89-91 Pts 793 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château De La Cour D'Argent (Bordeaux Supérieur)
Soft, supple, fresh, and fruity, with a vibrant, fresh, cream of sweet, black cherries and a refreshing touch of mint. The wine blends 95% Merlot with 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 847 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de la Dauphine (Fronsac)
This is a hidden gem. If you want an outstanding wine that sells for song, with aromatics, intensity, finesse, and charm, along with a boatload of ripe, red fruits, creamy-textures, and a fruit-filled finish, this is for you. La Dauphine is now one of the top wines from Fronsac. Drink from 2027-2040. 93-95 Pts. 1,112 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de la Huste (Fronsac)
Bright, crisp, fresh, and salty, with ample, ripe, red, with black plums, crushed stone, and licorice nuances with a touch of mint on the backend. You can enjoy this on release. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 1,226 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de la Rivière (Fronsac)
Black cherries, licorice, and chocolate come together in this round, forward, fruity, lush, soft-textured wine. The finish is sweet, polished, and packed, with dark red berries. Drink from 2026-2035. 90-92 Pts. 833 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Lamarque (Haut-Médoc)
Flowers, mint, and tobacco add to the juicy, red currants in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, energetic, dusty, firm, palate. Give it a year or so in the cellar and it should add more softness to the wine. Drink from 2026-2042. 88-90 Pts. 867 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Malleret (Haut-Médoc)
Tobacco, cedar, and currants with flowers, and licorice come through with ease. The wine is loaded with sweet, ripe, red berries, espresso, cocoa, licorice, and a refreshing touch of mint on the backend. This will be quite nice to enjoy on release, yet it has more than a decade of aging potential. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 790 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château De Monbadon (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Flowers, cherries, and red plums are expressed in the perfume. The medium-bodied palate is soft, vibrant, polished, and lively, with sweetness, and lift on the mid-palate that carries through to the finish. The wine blends 55% Cabernet Franc, and 45% Merlot. The wine is aged in 50% new, French oak barrels and amphora. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 728 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château De Monbadon Indie de Monbadon (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Medium-bodied, forward, fresh, early-drinking charmer which will deliver its bright, red berries, with their spicy accent with ease on release. Dink now, and over the next few years. The wine blends 51% Cabernet Franc and 49% Merlot. The wine is aged in a combination of 500 liter barrels, vats and amphora. Drink from 2026-2031. 87-89 Pts. 695 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Pez 2nd Pez (St. Estèphe)
Forward, fruity, and already fun to drink, the wine delivers its message of accessible black cherries, savory herbs, and wet earth with ease. Soft, round, and fresh, you can drink this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2031. 89-91 Pts. 721 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Portets (Graves)
Earthy, herbal, cedar, red berries, and tobacco come together in this forward, ready-to-go, medium-bodied, early-drinking wine. Drink from 2026-2032. 88-90 Pts 742 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Pressac (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, licorice, spice, and black raspberries fill the perfume. Medium-bodied, soft, elegant, and fresh, with a vibrancy to the salt-tinted, chocolate-accented, red fruits in the finish. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 1,823 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Sours Quarry de Sours Blanc (Bordeaux)
Honeysuckle, white peach, citrus, and flowers create the character here. This is perfect for young, early-drinking pleasure. Drink from 2024-2027. 88 Pts. 691 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Desmirail (Margaux)
Tobacco, and flowers, cedar, and currants pop in the nose. Medium-bodied, soft, fresh, and vibrant, the finish serves up loads of sweet, ripe, black cherries currants licorice, and spice. Drink from 2027-2042. 91-93 Pts. 928 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Destieux (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Lush black cherries, black raspberries, espresso, mint, licorice, and flowers form the nose, as well as shape the round, creamy, fruit-filled palate. You can enjoy this with just a year or two of age for 12-15 years with ease. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 762 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Deyrem Valentin (Margaux)
Round, soft, forward, and medium-bodied, with a core of ripe, sweet, lifted currants, licorice, espresso, flowers, and cherries, create an open, creamy, polished, wine that will be easy-to-enjoy with pleasure on release, and for 12-15 years after that. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,335 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Doisy-Daëne (Barsac)
Vanilla, flowers, candied pineapple, white peach, apricots, orange skins, and roasted nuts. The vibrance on the palate, with the purity, and energy in the tropical fruits, paired with ample acidity to give this lift makes this a true, sweet, treat. Drink from 2026-2050. 94-96 Pts. 1,281 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Doisy-Védrines (Sauternes)
Candied lemons, mango, honey, spice, and yellow, tropical fruits slathered in honey are at work here. The wine is zesty, with sweetness and a racy finish. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 938 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château du Courlat Cuvée Jean Baptiste (Lussac-St. Émilion)
Dark fruits, with chocolate, and flowers define the core of this wine. The palate is medium-bodied, and firm, yet, soft, and fruity, with a chocolate-coated plum, and espresso-filled endnote. The Cuvee is always produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts. 938 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château du Domaine de L'Eglise (Pomerol)
Soft, lush, polished, silky, and refined, this elegantly styled Pomerol focuses you on its chocolate-covered plums, black cherries, and licorice character with ease. The wine is medium-bodied, vibrant, and refined. It is perfectly balanced between its sweetness, lift, and ripe pit fruits that show on the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 98% Merlot with 2% Cabernet Franc. 14.8% ABV. Drink from 2028--2042. 92-94 Pts. 1,117 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château du Glana (St. Julien)
Flowers, cherries, tobacco, and cedar open the medium-bodied, forward, ripe, soft, wine. Sweet, and creamy, you can enjoy this with pleasure on release. If you are seeking a Saint Julien that sells for a song, this early-drinker is a great choice. Drink from 2026-2037. 90-92 Pts. 1,174 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château du Parc (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Vibrant, fresh, and fruity, with a crisp, freshness to the wine, and a touch of chocolate that shows on the medium-bodied palate that remains with you through to the finish. This will be charming to enjoy on release. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 749 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château du Petit Puch (Graves de Vayres)
Medium-bodied, bright, fresh, chewy red berries with a liberal dose of crushed rocks, and savory herbs. You can enjoy this easily on release. Drink from 2026-2033. 87-89 Pts. 708 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château du Tertre (Margaux)
Chocolate, cherries, flowers, espresso, and spearmint nuances shine on the nose. The palate is soft, fruity, fresh, and is not shy about already starting to let you enjoy its black, and red fruit-filled, creamy-textured charms. Drink from 2027-2045. 92-94 Pts. 1,555 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Du Terte Les Hauts du Tertre (Margaux)
Cedar, tobacco, red berries, spice, and flower notes come through easily in the perfume and in the medium-bodied, bright, fresh, soft, spicy, palate. This will be easy to drink on release. Drink from 2026-2031. 769 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Tertre Blanc (Vin de France)
White peaches, flowers, mango, spice, and vanilla aromatics offer the charms easily. The palate is lush, fresh, round, and fruity, with a hint of vanilla, and white peach that comes in at the end of the finish. The wine blends 32% Sauvignon Blanc, 23% Chardonnay, 23% Gros Manseng, and 22% Viognier planted in 6 hectares of vines, making it slightly easier to find, now that the production has increased. The wine is vinified in stainless steel and barrel-aged in 70% new, French oak barrels. Drink from 2026-2030. 91 Pts. 668 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou (St. Julien)
Saffron, licorice, turmeric, espresso, black cherries, blackberries, mint, and flowers create the perfume. The palate is vibrant, fresh, elegant, concentrated focused. The fruits are ripe, clean, and pure, with a racy, freshness. But, the wine is not overly bright, instead, it is silky, succulent, finesse-oriented, and elegant. The finish holds your attention for close to 50 seconds. The key to the success of the vintage at Ducru was finding the exact moment to pick. Ducru Beaucaillou continues its unstoppable roll of fabulous vintages. Produced from blending 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, with 15% Merlot, 13% ABV, 3.7 pH. Picking took place from September 8 -- October 3. Drink from 2028-2065. 96-98 Pts. 3,523 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Duhart-Milon (Pauillac)
Black currant, plums, chocolate, cigar box, and flowers fill the nose. Medium-bodied, fresh, forward, soft, and creamy, the spicy, black with red currants with their sweet, and savory character are going to offer pleasure shortly after release. Yet, this should age for up 2 decades as well. The wine is a blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 20% Merlot. 13.1% ABV, 3.8 pH.15% Press wine. Drink from 2028-2050. 93-95 Pts. 1,946 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Moulin de Duhart (Pauillac)
Spicy, red berries, wet earth, and tobacco form the nucleus here in the nose, and in the medium-bodied palate. Forward, soft, and fresh, you can enjoy this with pleasure on release, and for up to a decade. The wine blends 55% Merlot with 45% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2035. 88-90 Pts. 814 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Escot (Médoc)
Medium-bodied, with a bright, chewy, red fruits, crisp tannins, herbs, spice, and a classically-styled finish. touch of oak that adds roundness to the bright, red fruits in the nose and palate, giving the wine an early-drinking, already approachable character. Drink from 2026-2033. 86-88 Pts. 747 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Faizeau (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Supple, and creamy, with chocolate-covered black cherries, flowers, licorice, and chewy red fruits, give it just a year or two in the bottle and enjoy for more than a decade after that. Drink from 2027-2037. 89-91 Pts. 849 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Calice de Faugères (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, forward, soft, and elegant, this is as easy-to-like, as it is easy-to-drink. This is perfect for near-term, delicious, enjoyment. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 746 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Faugères (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Quite floral in nature, the wine is also loaded with ripe, sweet, dark, red pit fruits, espresso, chocolate mint, licorice, and black raspberries. Medium/full-bodied, the wine is silky, lush soft, and polished, with luscious, dark pit fruits, coffee bean, and black cherries in the finish. The wine blends 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2039. 1,040 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fayat (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, vibrant, fresh, lifted, red--berry oriented wine. On the palate, you find lift, and energy, with a bright, crisp, sweet, red plum, raspberry, cocoa, and licorice filled finish. You can enjoy this on release or with just a year or two of age. The wine blends 95% Merlot with 5% Cabernet Franc.13.6% ABV. Drink from 2027-2039. 90-92 Pts. 1,088 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Ferrande (Graves)
Smoke, tobacco leaves, cedar, and cherries form the character here. The medium-bodied wine is forward, soft, fruity, and easy to drink with its smoky, red berry personality. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 824 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Ferrande Blanc (Graves)
Ginger, spice, flowers, yellow citrus, and green apples are at the core of this bright, crisp, juicy, zesty, lemon, and pineapple filled wine. This is ready-to-go on release. The wine blends Sauvignon Blanc with Sauvignon Gris. Drink from 2025-2028. 91 Pts. 735 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Feytit Clinet (Pomerol)
The nose delivers its blend of flowers, spice, smoke, mint leaves, and red fruits along with wet earth in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is creamy, fresh, long, and chewy, finishing with spicy, ripe red cherries, plums, and chocolate, with a silky, refined, racy edge. The wine blends 90% Merlot, with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2050. 93-95 Pts. 1,263 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Figeac (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Just a single swirl brings out the flowers, leaves, tobacco, truffle, black cherry, plums, and black raspberries. From there you discover the medium-bodied, silky, energetic backdrop for all of the black cherries exuding their gorgeous sense of purity. There are no hard edges. This is the quintessential definition of elegance. For history buffs, this is the 130th vintage under the ownership of the Manoncourt family. The wine blends 41% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Franc, and 37% Cabernet Sauvignon. 5% Press wine. 13.5% ABV, 3.68 pH, 5% press wine. The key to the vintage was two green harvests and finding the best picking dates, which encompass a long wait for the Cabernets to mature. Picking took place September 6 - October 5. The length of the harvest is due to the 12 day break between the Merlot and the Cabernets. Drink from 2029-2065. 97-99 Pts. 3,747 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fleur Cardinale (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Chocolate covered black cherries, licorice, plums, and espresso nuances are all over the place on the nose, and on the lush, polished, round palate. The blend is 60% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. All that extra Cabernet really makes a difference adding more freshness, complexity, and individuality. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,889 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fleur Cardinale Intuition de Fleur Cardinale (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Red cherries, mint, and licorice form the character here. The wine is round, forward, fruity, and already fun to drink with its plummy and coco character. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 775 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fleur Cardinale Intuition de Fleur Cardinale Blanc (Bordeaux)
Forward, fruity, fun, easy to drink Bordeaux Blanc with a white peach, and citrus character. This is the second wine of Fleur Cardinale Blanc. The wine blends 50% Sauvignon Blanc, 25% Semillon and 25% Sauvignon Gris. Drink from 2024-2028. 87 Pts. 765 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fleur de Lisse (St. Émilion)
Crisp, bright, and fruity, with a core of vibrant, red fruits, soft, tannins, and sweetness to the cherries, as well as lift in the finish. Drink from 2026-2035. 89-91 Pts. 756 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fleur La Mothe (Médoc)
Medium-bodied, lush, and creamy, the wine is packed with flowers, cedar, tobacco, and black currants. The fruit is ripe, sweet, round, fresh, and polished. Drink from 2024-2037. 91-93 Pts. 825 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fombrauge (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, flowers, chocolate covered plums , smoke, espresso, licorice and cherries create the perfume. The fruits are ripe, sweet, forward, and juicy with touches of chocolate, black raspberries, and cherries on the mid-palate, and in the finish. This should offer pleasure almost on release. The wine blends 90% Merlot, and 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 996 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fonbadet (Pauillac)
Mint, cedar, spicy currants, and blackberries pop with little effort in the perfume. The palate is vibrant, fresh, and chewy, with a complicating note of spearmint that shines in the mineral driven finish. Drink from 2026-2048. 91-93 Pts. 895 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fonplégade (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Orange blossoms, raspberries, flowers, and cherries, with touches of licorice, mint, and sea salt fill the perfume and the palate. The wine is medium-bodied, silky, vibrant, fresh, and nuanced with an oceanic air to the red berries, and chocolate from start to finish. The wine blends 85% Merlot, and 15% Cabernet Franc, 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2047. 93-95 Pts. 1,157 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fonréaud (Listrac-Médoc)
Red, and black cherries, espresso, chocolate, licorice, and spice are all over the place here, in the perfume, and on the soft, creamy-textured, palate. It will be easy to enjoy this on release. Drink from 2026-2037. 89-91 Pts. 945 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fonroque (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, black cherries, and espresso blend in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, round, chewy, chocolatey, palate. There is a dryness to the finish, so allow it a bit of time for it to develop more softness, and it could be a better wine. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 867 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fontenil (Fronsac)
Dark in color, the wine exudes flowers, black with red fruits, licorice, cocoa, citrus, and crushed rocks. Lush, as well as refined, the wine is vibrant, creamy, and expressive, with loads of minerality that becomes even more apparent as the finish lingers and expands. Considering the small size of the vineyard, taking 20 days to harvest explains the success of the wine this year. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2042. 92-94 Pts. 988 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fourcas Dupré (Listrac-Médoc)
Round, forward, fruity, and savory, with a tobacco edge to the currants, the wine is medium-bodied, and should be easy to enjoy shortly after release. Drink from 2026-2035. 1,148 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Fourcas Hosten (Listrac-Médoc)
Cedar, tobacco, spearmint, and currants hit your nose. On the palate, the medium-bodied wine is fresh, fruity, peppery, and forward, making it perfect for early drinking pleasure. Drink from 2026-2035. 88-90 Pts 842 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Franc-Mayne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The wine is rich, supple, long, and fresh with a depth of flavor, strong floral edge, and vibrant, fruit-filled finish accented with licorice, and chocolate notes. The wine was made from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2027-2045. 92-94 Pts. 972 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Gaby (Canon-Fronsac)
Ripe, round, and fruity, with black cherries, licorice, and chocolate on display. Forward, and fruity, this is going to offer pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2033. 89-91 Pts. 779 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Garraud (Lalande de Pomerol)
Chocolate-covered cherries licorice, and smoke, with notes of espresso form the character here. The wine offers ripe, dark pit fruits with a chewy, chalky texture, and dark cocoa in the finish. Drink from 2026-2036. 88-90 Pts. 964 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Gazin (Pomerol)
There is richness, energy, layers of fruit, and finesse here. The fruits are ripe, silky, vibrant, and fresh. The truffle, flower, and chocolate accents add to the experience. Give the wine just a few years to age, and this will be a strong Pomerol wine. The wine blends 89% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2028-2042. 92-94 Pts. 1,536 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Giscours (Margaux)
Flowers, truffle, blackberries, black cherries, smoke, cigar box, and spice-filled aromatics open the wine. The wine offers a fresh, mineral-driven, multi-layered experience packed with layers of ripe, sweet, black cherries, and currants. The mid-palate and finish is silky, lifted, and ripe, with vibrancy, elegance, and purity from start to finish. The wine is a blend of 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, and 6% Cabernet Franc. 13.5% ABV, pH 3.75. Harvesting took place September 5 - October 6. Drink from 2028-2055. 94-96 Pts. 2,789 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Gloria (St. Julien)
Medium-bodied, elegant, ripe, forward, soft, and floral, with layers of sweet, black fruits, soft, ripe tannins, and a refined, uplifted character, this is already quite nice to drink, and with a few years, it is only going to get better. The wine is produced from 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot, and 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2043. 91-93 Pts. 2,590 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Godeau (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Ripe, red fruits, licorice, strawberries, and black raspberries fill the nose. The palate is fresh, vibrant, elegant, fruity and focused on its core of red fruits, finishing with dusty tannins, and a touch of fresh greenery. The wine is made from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 819 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Grand Corbin-Despagne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, licorice, chocolate, cinnamon, black cherries, and black raspberries fill the aromatic profile. Silky, long, and vibrant, with richness, creamy textures, and a vibrancy to the sweet, dark fruits in the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine is produced from blending 75% Merlot, with 25% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 1,244 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Grand Mayne (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers cherries, plums, and licorice pop in the nose. Medium-bodied, elegant, juicy, and silky, with sweetness, and lift in the plummy, licorice oriented finish. Drink from 2027-2045. 92-94 Pts. 1,046 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Grand Village (Bordeaux Supérieur)
Black raspberries, pepper, flowers, and spearmint form the nose. The medium-bodied wine is fresh, juicy, and fruity, with sweetness to the cherries, and plums on the palate. The wine has tension, and complexity, with a nice, red plum, and tobacco leaf finish. If you are seeking a Right Bank value wine, they do not get much better than this! The wine blends 91% Merlot with 9% Cabernet Franc. Harvesting took place September 9 - September 23. Drink from 2026-2035. 91-93 Pts. 1,475 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Grand Village Blanc (Bordeaux)
Flowers, lemon rind, pomelo, green apples, and a hint of pineapple define the wine. This is bright, crisp, and tense, with bite, and lift on the palate. This blend of 80% Sauvignon Blanc, and 20% Semillon is ready to go. Drink from 2025-2030. 92 Pts. 957 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Grand-Puy Ducasse (Pauillac)
Espresso, mint, incense, flowers, currants, and licorice form the core the wine. On the palate, the fruits are fresh, chewy, and energetic, with a brightness to the finish, that's made even more refreshing with its sprig of mint. This should age for at least 2 decades with ease. Drink from 2029-2050. 92-94 Pts. 1,635 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste (Pauillac)
Concentrated, full-bodied, vibrant, juicy, fresh, and rich, the wine displays its black, and red currants, blackberries, cigar box, and flowers with only a bit of coaxing. Vibrant, lifted, and energetic, but not overly bright, everything is in balance, with freshness, sweetness, chewy currants, and a savory, peppery-tinted finish that lingers. This is one of those wines that with aging, is a candidate for a higher score in a decade, or so. The wine is a blend of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon with 23% Merlot, 13.2% ABV, 3.6 pH. Picking took place September 11 - September 28. Drink from 2029 - 2060. 93-95 Pts. 2,270 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Greysac (Médoc)
Forward, medium-bodied and accessible, on release this will offer its red with black pit fruit charm with ease. Soft, forward and ready to go. Drink from 2026-2033. 89-91 Pts. 1,504 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Gruaud Larose (St. Julien)
Tobacco leaf, cedar, red, with black currants, wet earth, smoke, and blackberries crowd into the perfume. On the palate, the wine is bright, fresh, juicy, classic, firm, crisp, and chewy, with layers of spicy, black, and red berries that linger. There is lift, and precision in this modern version of a classic Bordeaux. Give it some time in the bottle to fill out, and it is going to be even better! 2023 is the second, fully-organic vintage for the vineyard. The wine is a blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.5% Merlot, and 2.5% Cabernet Franc.12.62% ABV, 3.4 pH. Picking took place September 11 - September 25. Drink from 2029-2060. 93-95 Pts. 2,652 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Gruaud Larose Sarget de Gruaud Larose (St. Julien)
Leafy, fresh herbs, cedar, mint, tobacco, and red fruits show easily in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is bright, fresh, and fruity, with a core of red currants from start to finish. You should be able to enjoy this wine on release. The wine is a blend of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40.5% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, and 3.% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2033. 89-91 Pts. 950 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Guillot Clauzel (Pomerol)
On the floral side, you also find complimentary notes of leaves, cedar, tobacco, and marine climatic influences along with sweet, ripe, juicy, red plums, chocolate, and ripe, cherries. The wine is vibrant, almost racy, with its vivid, sweet, ripe red berries, and a salty edge in the elegant, lingering, fresh finish. The endnotes with their aromatics on the palate add to the length with their refreshing edge, This is an insiders secret Pomerol. The production averages only 500 cases per vintage. If you are a fan of Pomerol, and you want to try something new, check it out. The wine blends 83% Merlot with 17% Cabernet Franc.14% ABV, 3.74 pH. Guillaume Thienpont of Vieux Chateau Certan is in charge of the estate. Drink from 2026-2050. 94-96 Pts. 1,254 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Floral, sweet, and energetic, with pineapples, lemon curd, honeysuckle, candied mangos, and roasted nuts, with a touch of saffron coming in at the end of the nose. Perfectly perched between its sweet, and racy side, with length, purity, freshness, and sweetness, yet it remains light on its feet. This seems to be a new era for Guiraud, with Sandrine Garbay in charge. Drink from 2027-2050. 95-97 Pts. 1,561 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut Condissas Prestige (Médoc)
Black cherries, licorice, espresso, along with spring flowers are readily available in this forward, fruity, creamy, soft-textured, fruity wine, with tis espresso, and chocolate finish. This is perfect for enjoyment as soon as it hits the stores, and for at least a decade after that. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts 787 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Marbuzet (St. Estèphe)
Supple, fresh, and juicy, the wine is vibrant, fruity, soft, creamy, and loaded with sweet, ripe, black cherries, pepper, chocolate, and herbs. There is good length, and energy, with blackberries, espresso, dark chocolate, spice, and currants in the finish. Drink from 2028-2045. 92-94 Pts 1,516 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Veyrac (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, vibrant, forward, chewy, and vibrant, with a crisp, refreshing edge to the fruits, and a touch of garrigue that show up in the finish. Made from a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2037. 88-90 Pts. 970 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Savory red fruits show as soon as you begin swirling this medium-bodied, classical-styled, forward, round, lighter-styled Pauillac, with a bright, spicy endnote. Give it a year or two of aging, and enjoy it for the next 12 years or more. Drink from 2027-2040. 89-91 Pts. 822 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Bailly (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, cedar, spice, and tobacco coupled with black raspberries, blackberries, and smoke aromatics are what initially grabs your attention. There is a vibrancy paired with elegant, firm tannins, and purity, and length that is impossible to ignore on the palate. The finish is silky, and refined, leaving you with lingering black raspberries, and black cherries, with a refreshing touch of mint in the slightly, firm endnote that make you want to take another sip. It was management of the mildew pressure, along with paying attention to the degree of ABV which were the two key areas of attention here this year. The wine blends 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, and 4% Petit Verdot. 14.3% ABV, pH 3.75. 6% press wine. Picking took place September 11 - September 29. Drink from 2029-2060. 96-98 Pts. 2,640 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Bailly II (Pessac-Léognan)
Spicy blackberries, black cherries, tobacco and flowers are already expressive in the nose. On the medium-bodied palate, the wine is soft, forward, silky, and lively, with sweet, black cherries, and a hint of chocolate in the finish. This is perfect to enjoy while waiting for the Grand Vin to develop. The wine blends 64% Merlot, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 2% Cabernet Franc. This is the second vintage incorporating the vines from Chateau Le Pape. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,007 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Batailley (Pauillac)
Chocolate, mint, flowers, currants, and blackberries form the nose. The palate pops with black cherries, blackberries, vivacity, round textures, and a chewy, lively, red currant-filled finish. The wine was made from blending 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot. This is the first time Petit Verdot has been included in the blend. 13.2% ABV, 3.69. Drink from 2028-2052. 92-94 Pts. 1,255 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Batailley de Batailley (Pauillac)
Forward, soft, round, and fruity, with a core of ready-to-go currants, and cherries. This charmer will be perfect on release. Pauillac de Batailley is the 3rd wine of Batailley. Drink from 2026-2032. 87-89 Pts. 829 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Batailley Verso (Pauillac)
Cedar, tobacco leaf, and black currants form the core the of the wine in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, vibrant, crisp, palate. Drink this over the next decade or so. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 860 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Bergey (Pessac-Léognan)
Using less oak for the aging, the wine shows more elegance, with additional purity in its character. The wine is soft, fruity, ripe, and elegant, with a smoky edge to the cherries in the finish. Drink from 2026-2040. 90-92 Pts. 1,248 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
Even the nose is vibrant this year. You instantly sense it in the perfume with its flowers, red currants, smoke, spice, and cherries. The wine is powerful, yet reserved, long, intense, silky, and vivacious. The fruit has this lift that elevates on the palate. There is richness, elegance, and purity here. But, what is most striking is that on the palate, the wine moves in every direction, covering both sides, as well as the roof of your mouth as the wealth of fruit lingers for over 60 seconds. Part of the success of the vintage is due to July, with its cloudy skies, providing protection from the sun, helping to keep ABV levels down. There is also less green harvesting taking place this year. It is important to note that not only are the harvest dates becoming earlier here, they are also finishing later. More attention is paid to finding phenolic maturity on a parcel by harvest basis, adding nuance and balance. In the cellars, the extraction was soft, at lower temperatures, adding the elegance in the wine. The wine blends 52.3% Merlot, 38.6% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 9.1% Cabernet Franc, 14.6% ABV. 3.7 pH. Harvesting took place, September 4 - October 4. Only 42% of the harvest was placed into the grand Vin. Drink from 2030-2065. 97-99 Pts. 9,000 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Brion Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Green apples, waxy lemon peels, ginger, and orange rind notes are all over the place. The wine is crisp, mineral-driven, fruity, and bright from start to finish. The wine is made from a blend of 58.1% Sauvignon Blanc, with 41.9% Semillon. 13.8% ABV. The picking took place August 21, finishing September 4. The length of harvest is extraordinary, considering there are only 2.5 hectares of vines. Drink from 2025-2040. 97 Pts. 1,356 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Brisson (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The core of flowers, herbs, cherries, and spice fill the nose and the medium-bodied palate. The soft-textured mid-palate, and finish delivers its bright, spicy, red fruits with a refined, refreshing, minty edge. You can enjoy this with pleasure just about on release, or age it for more complexity. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, forward, soft, and fruity, with a chalky nuance in the plummy finish. The wine blends 95% Merlot with 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,039 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Chaigneau (Lalande de Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, soft, forward, fresh, and fruity, with a core of chocolate, and cherries, along with hints of spice from start to finish. This will be best over the next decade. The wine blends 85% Merlot with 15% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 874 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Madrac (Haut-Médoc)
Cigar box, cocoa, flowers, and earthy nuances with the red fruits in the nose, and on the medium-bodied palate to produce a charming, easy-to-enjoy, Left Bank. Cabernet Sauvignon filled charmer. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2033. 88-90 Pts. 905 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Maillet (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, with flowers, chocolate, and sweet, red berries in the nose, and on the palate. There is freshness, softness, elegance, and refinement, with a touch of chocolate adding roundness to the red fruits in the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 90% Merlot, with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 1,248 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Haut-Sarpe (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, espresso, crushed, rock, and red fruits show in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, chalky, vibrant, energetic palate. This is a wine of place, with its crushed rock character. Drink from 2027-2039. 89-91 Pts. 1,435 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Hosanna (Pomerol)
Black plums, black raspberries, black cherries, flowers, and dark chocolate pop effortlessly in the perfume. On the palate the wine is luscious, vibrant, sensuous, and rich. There is a serious depth of flavor, good concentration, and length. The finish is as dark as the perfume with dark chocolate coated plums, black cherries, espresso, and licorice. There is a refreshing, floral mouth aromatic in the finish adding complexity, and freshness. With aging, this is going to be one of my favorite vintages of Hosanna. The wine blends 74% Merlot, with 26% Cabernet Franc. The harvest took place September 7-September 19. Drink from 2029-2055. 95-97 Pts. 1,598 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Hostens-Picant (Sainte Foy Bordeaux)
An interesting blend, due to mildew pressure, the wine blends 89% Cabernet Sauvignon with 11% Cabernet Franc to produce a sine loaded with cedar, tobacco leaf, mint, wet forest, and red currants. Medium-bodied, almost light, the crisp red berries are fresh, but they fade quickly in the finish. Drink from 2026-2031. 86-88 Pts. 856 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Jean-Faure (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The wine is vibrant, floral, fresh, juicy, meaty and lifted, with a strong sensation of crushed rocks, stones, flowers, spice and marine influences. The wine is complex, fruity, and lively, with an earthy character that should age quite well. Give it a year or two in the bottle, and it will be even better. The wine blends 65% Cabernet Franc, 30% Merlot, and 6% Malbec. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 1,339 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Joanin Bécot (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Cherries, flowers, crushed rocks, and stones, licorice, black plums, and cocoa display in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is loaded with sweet, ripe, black raspberries, cherries, and chocolate, with a refreshing salty-mint accent on the backend. The wine is a blend of 80% Merlot, and 20% Cabernet Franc. 14.1% ABV, 3.5 pH. The wine is produced from some of the oldest vines in the appellation, with the oldest vines dating back to 1870! Drink from 2026-2035. 92-94 Pts. 1,286 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Kirwan (Margaux)
Flowers, espresso, mint, black cherries, and spice nuances are easy to spot. Medium-bodied, fresh, elegant, and refined, with a silky-edge to the finish, the fruits, chocolate accents, and a lifted, sweet endnote. Drink from 2028-2045. 91-93 Pts. 1,667 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château L'Eglise-Clinet (Pomerol)
The wine quickly focuses you on its floral characteristics paired with black raspberries, plums, black, with white cherries, dark chocolate, and just an edge of coffee beans. The palate however, is where the excitement takes place. The wine is opulent, rich, aromatic, concentrated, and long. The mark of freshness is there, but, you also experience the wine's elegance, and silky tannins, as well as its length, and width on the mid-palate, and finish. Interestingly, here, it was the moderate amount of sun hours that helped make the vintage as it shielded the grapes from the late summer heat wave. From a blend of 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc, 14.60% ABV. The harvest took place September 10-September 14. It is great to see continuing strong wines from the Durantou family. Drink from 2029-2060. 97-99 Pts. 2,273 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château L'Enclos (Pomerol)
Elegant, soft, silky, floral, and fresh, the medium-bodied wine does not rely on density, Instead, here, you find a wine embracing its refined character, with sweetness, and purity in the fruit, the mid-palate, and in the backend of the finish. The wine blends 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Malbec. Drink from 2026-2037. 91-93 Pts. 928 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château L'Etampe (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Juicy, sweet, round, soft, and fruity, the wine is medium-bodied, elegant, and ready-to-go on release, with a refreshing touch of citrus in the finish. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 830 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Blason de l'Evangile (Pomerol)
Cocoa, and roses, with hints of licorice are already easy to spot in the nose. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, soft, sweet, polished, fresh, and easy-to like, due to its creamy-textured, chocolate-covered cherry character. You can enjoy this on release, and over the near term while waiting for the Grand Vin to develop. The wine blends 95% Merlot with 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2037. 90-92 Pts. 873 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château L'Evangile (Pomerol)
Violets, lilacs, chocolate, truffle, black cherries, smoke, licorice, and plums fill the nose. But, the magic to L'Evangile is on the palate with its lush, supple, creamy, elegant textures, soft, polished tannins, length, and depth, finishing with layers of ripe, black plums, and cherries with peppery, spicy, chocolate on the backend. The wine blends 78% Merlot with 21% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. 13.6% ABV, 3.75. The key to the vintage here is the rains that fell in the end of June, which refreshed the vines at the right moment. The harvest took place September 4 - September 28, which is long for L'Evangile. The wine is aging in a combination of 50% new, French oak, 15% amphora and used oak barrels. The Grand Vin was made from 55% of the harvest. Drink from 2029-2050. 96-98 Pts. 1,898 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Branne (Médoc)
Round, fresh, and fruity with load of ripe, chewy, black currants, mint, and peppery spice, this is going to provide delicious drinking on release, and it sells for a song! Drink from 2026-2035. 88-90 Pts. 1,220 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Cabanne (Pomerol)
Flowers, plums, and cocoa open the nose. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, fresh, crisp, and elegant, finishing with sweet, black raspberries, chocolate, and espresso with a lifted, finish. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. 14.1% ABV. Drink from 2028-2042. 91-93 Pts. 991 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Chandellière (Médoc)
Chocolatey, red fruits with a chalky note on the mid-palate and in the blackberry finish. This will be just great on release and over the next decade. Drink from 202-2035. 88-90 Pts 853 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Clémence (Pomerol)
Incense, licorice, spice, espresso, smoke, and red fruits work in concert here to produce a medium-bodied, round, creamy, fruity wine. Drink from 2026-2040. 89-91 Pts. 852 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Clotte (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Floral in nature, you also find notes of licorice, cherries, and red with black plums. The medium-bodied wine is soft, silky, vibrant, fresh, and spicy, with a lifted, red berry finish. You can enjoy this with just a year or two of aging. The wine blends 85% Merlot, with 15% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2042. 92-94 Pts. 981 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Commanderie (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Espresso, chocolate, licorice, and floral nuances mesh with the medium-bodied, forward, creamy, chocolate-coated, black cherry, licorice, mint, and oak-touched palate. If the oak is eaten by the fruit, this could be quite good. Drink from 2027-2037. 89-91 Pts. 1,059 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Confession (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, spice, smoke, black raspberries, licorice, cherries, and plums shoot from the glass. Medium-bodied, silky, fresh, and lifted, the fruits are clean, pure, bright, and sweet. There is length, definition, and complexity. With Thomas Duclos as the new consultant, this is a property to watch. The wine blends 70% Merlot, 27% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Malbec. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2045. 92-94 Pts. 1,076 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Conseillante (Pomerol)
Violets, black raspberries, spice, chocolate, truffle, and black cherries begin the perfume. The palate is where the wine shines, with its vibrant display of black with red fruits. The striking purity, elegance, and textures, silky tannins, and length leave quite an impression. The adage, "Patience is a virtue" is the key the success this year, as they needed to wait for the desired level of phenolic maturity. The wine blends 88% Merlot with 12% Cabernet Franc. 7.5% press wine. 14% ABV, 3.68 pH. The harvest took place September 7 - October 2. Drink from 2029-2060. 97-99 Pts. 2,856 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Croix Chaigneau (Lalande de Pomerol)
Flowers, cherries, chocolate, and plums open the wine. On the palate, the wine is soft, supple, and fresh with a creamy, dark cherry, chocolate, and plum finish. The wine blends 50% Cabernet Franc, with 50% Merlot. Drink from 2027-2036. 90-92 Pts. 868 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Couspaude (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Creamy, dark, round, sweet, and supple, the wine is loaded with dark, black cherries, licorice, chocolate, and espresso. There is ripeness, as well as lift, that once the oak better integrates will be fun to enjoy. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts. 959 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château la Creation (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, forward, plummy, cherry filled wine with licorice, cocoa, and spearmint from start to finish, on the nose and on the palate. Drink from 2026-2034. 88-90 Pts 839 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Croix du Casse (Pomerol)
Plums, cocoa, herbs, and flowers form the perfume. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, fresh, juicy, fruity, soft-textured, forward, upbeat, and already charming in your glass, with its minty, plummy, and cocoa endnote. The wine blends 96% Merlot, with 4% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,006 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Dominique (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Elegant is the keyword here. The wine is medium-bodied, edgy, and fresh, with soft, and silky tannins. The fruits are bight, crisp, and clean, with touches of mint, licorice, spice and tobacco in the mid-palate. The finish focuses you on the energetic raspberries, cherries, and plums, with their tobacco, mint, and spicy character. The wine blends 88% Merlot, with 12% Cabernet Franc, 14.1% ABV, 3.85 pH. The wine is aged in 50% new, French oak, and 10% amphora. Harvesting took place September 6 - October 3. Drink from 2026-2045. 93-95 Pts. 1,306 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Round, fruity, and sweet, but lacking in complexity. Still, the chewy fruit in the finish has charm. This is best suited for early drinking pleasure. The wine is produced from a blend of 89% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2039. 89-91 Pts. 822 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur de Boüard (Lalande de Pomerol)
Flowers, cherries, licorice, smoke, and cocoa create the perfume. On the palate, the wine is soft, silky, fresh, medium-bodied, round, and creamy, finishing with plums, cherries, in early-drinking approach. The wine is a blend of 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2036. 91-93 Pts. 1,051 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur de Boüard Le Plus (Lalande de Pomerol)
Dark black cherries, licorice, black plums, and chocolate are expressed in the nose. On the palate, the wine is round, lush, forward, and filled with dark, sweet fruits. Medium-bodied, vibrant, and ripe, give it a year or two and it will be great in your glass. The wine is produced from 100% old vine Merlot. Drink from 2026-2042. 92-94 Pts. 912 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur de Boüard Chardonnay La Fleur de Boüard (Atlantique)
Bright, vigorous yellow citrus, and white peaches are fresh, and refreshing in this easy-to-like, ready white wine. Drink from 2025-2028. 90 Pts. 701 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur de Boüard Le Lion (Lalande de Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, forward, fresh, and fruity, with a nice floral component to the soft, round, cherry-filled mid-palate, and finish. This is perfect for early drinking pleasure. Drink from 2026-2031. 89-91 Pts. 841 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur de Boüard Sauvignon (Bordeaux)
Green apples, pears, pomelo and tangerine pop in the nose, and on the vibrant, fruity, juicy, and fresh palate. Drink from 2025-2029. 90 Pts. 810 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur de Gay (Pomerol)
Flowers, black cherries, and dark chocolate in a voluptuous, opulent style, with freshness, layers of dark red pit fruits, wet earth, and a velvety, lush, finish. This is a hedonistic wine that will deliver a lot of pleasure over the next 15-20 years. The wine was produced from 100% old vine Merlot. Drink from 2028-2047. 94-96 Pts. 1,041 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur Morange (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black raspberries, flowers, cherries, spice, licorice, and herbs fill the perfume. On the palate, the wine is fresh, vibrant, fruity, elegant, and polished, with loads of sweet, red berries on the backend. The wine blends 70% Merlot, with 30% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2028-2040. 93-95 Pts. 951 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur Morange Mathilde (St. Émilion)
Bright, fresh, pure, and vibrant, the wine is on the red berry side of the style range, with an elegant, easy-going charm, softness, energy, and fruity charm. Year after year, this remains one of the top value plays in Saint Emilion. The wine is made from 100% Merlot from vines with more than 50 years of age. Drink from 2026-2034. 91-93 Pts 893 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur Perey Cuvée Prestige (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, forward, fruit-filled, soft-round, aromatic and charming that is going to be delicious on release and for at least a decade after that. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 838 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Fleur-Pétrus (Pomerol)
Flowers, spice, black raspberries, espresso, cherries, and licorice are abundant in the aromatic profile. On the palate, this is sensuous, silky, and sexy. It is polished, rich, and velvety, with layers of dark chocolate-covered black cherries, mint, spice, licorice, smoke, espresso, and plums. This is long, as well as intense, with energy, and complexity. You can enjoy this with pleasure with only a few years in the cellar. But give it a decade, and this is going to offer incredible drinking. The wine blends 96.5% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and .05 Petit Verdot. The harvest took place September 7 - September 19. Drink from 2029-2050. 96-98 Pts. 2,262 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château la Fon du Berger (Pauillac)
Lead pencil, cedar, currants, and tobacco leaves are readily apparent. Creamy, energetic, fruity, and spicy, the finish is packed with salty-edged, black currants, and spice. If you have been seeking a well-priced Pauillac, this should be on your list. Drink from 2027-2037. 89-91 Pts. 849 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château la Fortune (Margaux)
Incense, spice, and red berries are easy to find in this charming, medium-bodied, soft-textured, forward, elegant, and early drinking Margaux. Drink from 2026-2038. 89-91 Pts. 853 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Lagune (Haut-Médoc)
Indian spice, flowers, smoke, red pit fruits, and a drop of espresso fill the complex nose. The medium-bodied, palate is elegant, refined, and silky, with lift, and sweetness to the red berries with a touch of chocolate in the end note that fills things out. Drink from 2027-2045. 92-94 Pts. 2,058 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Louvière (Pessac-Léognan)
Vibrant in nature, the wine is loaded with crisp, fresh, sweet, juicy, green apples, pomelo and touches of pineapple, and lemon rind. This is going to be quite nice to enjoy on release for all of its fruit, and vibrancy. Drink from 2025-2032. 93 Pts. 1,070 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Marzelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, black cherries, plums, and chocolate pop in the nose. On the palate, the wine is supple, creamy, and fresh, with layers of dark red berries, cocoa, licorice and spice, leaving you with chocolate-covered, black cherries, and a sprig of mint. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 877 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Mission Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
Blackberries, spice, smoke, flowers, and currants shine in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is concentrated, yet, refined, long, deep, and intense. There is a vibrancy to the fruits that pairs perfectly with the smoky, currants, and blackberries, There is depth, length, and volume, with an easy-going elegance, and lift, Nothing is pushed. Everything is balanced, and in place. The sneaky finish builds, lingers, and resonates its essence. Part of the success of the vintage is due to July, with its cloudy skies, which provided protection from the sun, helping to keep ABV levels down. In the cellars, the extraction was soft, at lower temperatures. The wine blends 52.7% Merlot, 29.6% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 17.7% Cabernet Franc, 14.5% ABV. 3.7 pH. Harvesting took place, September 6-October 3. Only 42% of the harvest was placed into the grand Vin. Drink from 2030-2060. 95-97 Pts. 3,131 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Patache (Pomerol)
Flowers, cherries, spice, and a background note of truffle open the wine. Medium-bodied, vibrant, and elegant, the wine is focused on its fresh core of fruits, and energy. You can enjoy this on release and over the next 10-15 years easily. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026- 2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,276 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Pointe (Pomerol)
Sweet red berries with chocolate are what you initially notice in the perfume. On the palate, the medium-bodied wine is bright, crisp, elegant, and juicy, with lift, energy, and most importantly, a refreshing touches of citrus and dark chocolate in the backend of the finish. Drink from 2026-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,235 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Prade (Francs Côtes de Bordeaux)
Medium-bodied, forward, with sweetness, and firmness, freshness, ripe, crisp, chewy, rustic, sweet, dark cherries, raspberries, and plums with licorice, florals, spice, and a touch of marine influences on the palate, as well as in the finish. You can enjoy this on release, or age it for at least a decade or more. Made from 79% Merlot, with 21% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2033. 91-93 Pts. 1,143 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Rousselle (Fronsac)
Flowers, fruit, and freshness, with a touch of salt on the backend, to make the round, polished, sweet, ripe, black cherries, and juicy plums even better. Drink from 2026-2035. 90-92 Pts. 845 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Serre (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, herbs, spice, and licorice come together in the nose. The palate is medium-bodied, vibrant, sweet, and juicy, with a nice lift in the red plum finish. Drink from 2026-2040. 91-93 Pts. 926 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Tour Blanche (Sauternes)
Bright, sweet, honeyed, yellow citrus, and candied orange rind, zesty, and fresh, sweet, and bright... Candied lemon, pineapple, and honey with floral accents, apricots, and hints of white peach on the nose, and on the sweet, medium/full-bodied, fresh, mango, and pineapple-infused palate. Drink from 2025-2045. 92-94 Pts. 1,149 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Tour Carnet (Haut-Médoc)
Flowers, tobacco and red fruits define the core of this wine on the nose, and on the palate. Medium-boded, with more freshness than in previous vintages, the wine ends with a complicating nuance of citrus in the finish that I really like. You can enjoy this in its youth. The wine blends 75% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Petit Verdot, and 1% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,313 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Tour Carnet Blanc (Bordeaux)
Vibrant from the initial sniff, the wine is loaded with yellow citrus, pineapples, flowers, and mangos in the perfume. The palate is bright, and citrusy, with a crisp, pineapple, lemon and banana finish. The wine blends 67% Sauvignon Blanc with 33% Semillon. This is going to offer delicious drinking on release. Drink from 2025-2030. 92 Pts. 872 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Tour de By (Médoc)
Fresh, and fruity, round, and creamy, the wine pops with loads of ripe, dark, sweet, cherries, plums and blackberries on the palate, that continue through to the creamy, licorice, and black cherry packed finish. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,191 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Tour de By Heritage Marc Pages (Médoc)
Medium-bodied, fresh, juicy, and with accents of espresso, licorice, and flowers to accompany the red, with black currants, the wine finishes fresh and fruity. Drink from 2027-2028. 90-92 Pts. 845 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Tour de Mons (Margaux)
Tobacco, cedar, cherries, and flowers form the nose. The wine is medium-bodied, soft, chewy, and spicy, with freshness, and energy that comes through all of the red cherries in the finish. The wine blends 57% Merlot, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot and 4% Cabernet Franc. 13.5% ABV, 3.6 pH. Drink from 2026-2042. 90-92 Pts. 1,126 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Tour Figeac (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Spring flowers, cherries, plums, licorice, and a hint of espresso get the wine going. Medium-bodied, soft, silky, fresh, and creamy, the red fruits with their spicy accents express a nice sense of purity on the mid-palate, that carries through to the finish, where you also find a refreshing salty, licorice nuance. The wine blends 65% Merlot, with 35% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2042. 92-94 Pts. 1,158 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Latour-Martillac Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Green apples, white flowers, white peach, lemons, and honeysuckle are a treat to find in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is fresh, and focuses you easily on the crisp, juicy, sweet, lemons, and green apples in the palate, and in the finish. This will be easy to enjoy on release. The harvest took place August 18 - August 31.The wine blends 60% Sauvignon Blanc, with 40% Semillon. 13% ABV. Drink from 2025-2034. 93 Pts. 1,099 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Latour-Martillac (Pessac-Léognan)
Smoky, black cherries, blackberries, leafy herbs, cigar wrapper, flowers, and spice fill the perfume. The wine is rich, dark, and chewy on the palate, with a touch of spice that lingers along with all of that dark red pit fruits in the mid-palate, that carry through to the finish. This should age quite nice well, yet be approachable young. The wine blends 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 8% Petit Verdot. 13.5% ABV, pH 3.8. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 1,505 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Vieille Cure (Fronsac)
Minty, with licorice, salty cherries, plums, and crushed stone notes start the wine off. From there, the wine is medium-bodied, fresh, soft, forward, refined, and fruity. If you are seeking a really nice wine, without spending a lot of bucks, check this wine out. You can enjoy it with pleasure on release, and for another 12 or more years after that. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,275 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Violette (Pomerol)
Dark in color, the wine is equally intense on the palate with its layers of black with red fruits, dark chocolate, black cherries, black raspberries, black plums, and chalk. There is depth, concentration, and richness with power, lift, and opulence in the mid-palate, that carries through to the finish. The key to the vintage was the long hang time with harvesting starting September 11-September 20. The length of the harvest is due to manual destemming. The wine was produced from 100% Merlot, 14 % ABV. Drink from 2029-2050. 95-97 Pts. 1,152 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Voute (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, licorice, chocolate, and flowers create the attention seeking nose. Rich, supple, creamy, and loaded with chocolate covered cherries, this is a fine, hedonistic wine. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,007 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Labégorce (Margaux)
On the nose, you find flowers, cherries, blackberries, herbs, and plums. The palate serves up its blend of silky, spicy, creamy red, and chewy black fruits. There is good length and energy here that carries through to the mint-tinted finish. The wine blends 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, and 3% Cabernet Franc. 13.5% ABV, pH 3.7. The harvest took place September 13 - October 9. Drink from 2028-2050. 92-94 Pts. 1,839 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey Grand Vin Sec (Bordeaux)
Lemongrass, white peaches, lemon rind, and flowers create the complex aromatics here. Vibrant, crisp, and citrusy, with a touch of crushed stone, adding complexity, this is good-to-go on release. The wine blends 60% Sauvignon Blanc, with 40% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2032. 92 Pts. 918 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey (Sauternes)
Apricot, saffron, cashew nuts, roasted pineapples, candied tangerine, mango, and vanilla bean aromatics let you know you are in for a sweet, treat. Juxtaposed between candied, and vibrant, the wine is intense, racy, and sweet, leaving you with ripe, very ripe, and overripe pineapples, apricots, spice, honey, and vanilla bean. The wine is produced from 100% Semillon. Drink from 2029-2055. 95-97 Pts. 1,298 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafite Rothschild (Pauillac)
Richly colored, with a complex aromatic profile offering flowers, spices, cedar, cigar wrapper, lead pencil, creme de cassis, and blackberries. The wine rapidly focuses on its layers of energetic, red with black fruits There is a polished, character here. Texturally, this is elegant, and racy, with length, purity, and most importantly, charm. finishing with seamless, gentle waves of creme de cassis. The wine blends 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot. 15% press wine. 12.9% ABV, 3.78 pH. Harvesting started September 7 for the young Merlot vines, finishing September 29. The key to the success this year was controlling mildew pressure, and finding the optimum picking dates. 38% of the harvest went into the Grand Vin. Drink from 2030-2065. 96-98 Pts. 4,133 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafitte (Premières Côtes de Bordeaux)
Forward, soft, and supple, with a fruity, creamy-textured, mid-palate, and a chalky, chocolate, and cherry finish. This early drinking charmer will be quite nice on release. Drink from 2026-2034. 87-89 Pts. 839 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafleur (Pomerol)
Plums, black raspberries, flowers, boysenberries, tobacco, and truffles create the nose. On the palate, the wine pops with its layers of bright, sweet, ripe, and energetic red fruits, cigar wrapper, and chewy black cherries. This is a classic vintage of Lafleur which exchanges its opulence, and power for lift, refinement, concentration, length, and complexity. The wine requires at least a decade, or even more time in the bottle before it is ready, and enjoyable to drink. The estate calls their 2023 a wine from an extreme vintage, without any extremes. The wine blends 54% Cabernet Franc, and 46% Merlot. 14.2% ABV, 3.75 pH. Harvesting took place for the Merlot September 7, 8, Cabernet Franc was harvested September 17. Drink from 2030-2065. 97-99 Pts. 1,967 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafleur-Gazin (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, refined, elegant, and vibrant, the fruits are soft, pure, sweet, and on the red berry side, with a licorice, dark cocoa, and savory edge in the finish. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,124 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafon La Tuilerie (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, chocolate, spice, espresso, and black cherries show easily here. The wine is bright, fresh, juicy, and forward, finishing with cocoa, black raspberries, spice, and juicy, red plums. Produced from 100% Merlot, this will drink well young, and age for at least a decade or more. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 921 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafon-Rochet (St. Estèphe)
Blackberries, black cherries, spice, and tobacco leaves with a touch of spice fill the nose. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, soft, and polished with ripe, brisk tannins, and a chewy, fresh, peppery finish. The wine was made from blending 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, and 4% Cabernet Franc. 13.35%. This is only the second vintage with the new owner, Jackie Lorenzetti, and the team of Emmanuel Cruse fully in charge. Drink from 2028-2045. 92-94 Pts. 1,320 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Les Pelerins de Lafon-Rochet (St. Estèphe)
Fresh, spicy tobacco, and currants come through easily in the nose, and on the chewy, peppery, currant-filled palate of this easy-to-like, and easy-to-enjoy, charmer. Drink from 2025-2032. 89-91 Pts. 930 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafont-Fourcat (Bordeaux)
Smoky black raspberries, cherries, and licorice form the character here. The wine is medium-bodied, forward, and fruity, with a touch of chocolate that comes in at the end. This will provide enjoyment on release. Drink from 2026-2032. 88-90 Pts. 922 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafont-Fourcat À Nos Amours (Bordeaux)
Chocolate-covered black cherries, flowers, licorice, and flowers create the aromatic profile. The medium-bodied wine is soft, lush, creamy, and chocolatey, finishing with black cherries, and plums. Not much of this wine is produced. But, if you see it grab it. It sells for a song for a wine at this level of quality. Produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts. 914 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafont-Fourcat Blanc (Bordeaux)
Flowers, white peaches, orange rind, and lemons are ripe, sweet, fruity, juicy, and ready-to-go as soon as the wine hits the stores. Drink from 2025-2028. 89 Pts 850 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Laforge (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With a spicy touch to the red fruits, incense, licorice, and flowers on the nose. Medium-bodied, fresh, bright, and fruity, the wine finishes with sweet black raspberries from start to finish. The wine blends 92% Merlot with 8% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2039. 90-92 Pts. 913 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lagrange (Pomerol) (Pomerol)
The nose offers a hint of oak, a touch of chocolate, red berries, and flowers. On the medium-bodied palate, the wine is supple, vibrant, and refined, with lift, and sweetness in the finish. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2037. 90-92 Pts. 1,043 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lagrange (St. Julien) (St. Julien)
Black cherries, black currants, flowers, and mint blend perfectly in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, fresh, energetic, bright, chewy palate. Give this a few years in the bottle, and it is going to be a very good wine to drink over the next few decades. Starting with the 2016 vintage, Lagrange has been on a hot streak! The wine is produced from 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 16% Merlot. Drink from 2029-2055. 91-93 Pts. 2,578 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lanessan (Haut-Médoc)
Espresso, black currants, licorice, tobacco, and herbs are all over the place here. Forward, chewy, lifted, and fresh, the fruits are bright, sweet, and chewy, with a savory, tobacco, and blackberry finish. Drink from 2027-2045. 90-92 Pts. 1,500 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Langoa Barton (St. Julien)
Blackberries, cigar wrapper, flowers, and cherries fill the nose with its aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is fresh, chewy, and Cassis, tobacco, flowers, blackberries, and red currants show easily on the nose, and palate. There is a wealth of fresh, dark red fruits, creamy tannins, and infused with tobacco, powerful tannins, and a gentle, crispness to the spicy, blackberries on the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, and 3% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV. Drink from 2028-2050. 92-94 Pts. 3,168 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Laniote (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, black cherries, and espresso form the core of this medium-bodied, vibrant, chewy wine. There is a crispness, with a salty accent to the red berries in the finish. Drink from 2027-2036. 89-91 Pts. 929 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Larcis Ducasse (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Crushed stone, flowers, strawberries, cherries, licorice, tobacco, and spice create the complex aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is crisp, ripe, long, and vibrant. It is easy to find its trademark sense of minerality accompanying the layers of fruit that linger on the mid-palate. There is purity, length, and energy in the finish. The wine blends 86% Merlot with 14% Cabernet Franc. 14.7% ABV. Drink from 2029-2055. 94-96 Pts. 1,986 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Larmande (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, crushed stone, black raspberries, smoke, licorice, and chocolate show in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, fresh, elegant, soft, creamy-textured palate. The black raspberries, licorice, and cocoa in the finish seal the deal. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 963 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Laroque (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deeply colored, the wine opens with a strong, marine influence before you get to the flowers, licorice, red berries, and spice. The palate displays a medium-bodied, energetic core of spicy, fresh, sweet, ripe, salty, red fruits. Elegant in nature, there is a vibrant, almost, racy character to the fruits. This is a refined, charmer that leaves you with sweetness, spice, and ample purity in the salt-edged, red fruits that remain with you, from start to finish. The wine was made with 99% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc, 14.15% ABV. Drink from 2028-2045. 94-96 Pts. 3,368 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Larose Perganson (Haut-Médoc)
Bright, vibrant red berries with herbs, mint, and cigar box notes show in the nose, and on the fresh, lifted, red currant, and cherry palate. You can enjoy this on release. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 865 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Larose-Trintaudon (Haut-Médoc)
Medium-forward, bright red fruit, and tobacco-filled, early-drinking charmer, with accents of mint at the end, offering a refreshing finish. This is fine for early, uncomplicated drinking pleasure. Drink from 2026-2033. 88-90 Pts 914 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Laroze (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Espresso, herbs, tobacco, and cedar aromatics show effortlessly. Medium-bodied, with a fruity core of red pit fruits, the creamy finish leaves with you sweet, ripe, cherries, with licorice accents, dark chocolate, and a touch of mint. Drink from 2027-2039. 90-92 Pts. 1,249 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Larrivaux (Haut-Médoc)
Forward, chewy, vibrant, and firm, with stoic cherries, cedar, tobacco and herbs to compliment the fruit, give it a year or two before opening a bottle. Drink from 2027-2036. 88-90 Pts. 922 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Larrivet-Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
Yellow citrus, pomelo, white peach, flowers, and Granny Smith apple aromatics shoot from the glass. On the palate, the wine is sweet, vibrant, ripe, round, and fruity, finishing with a blend of ripe, grapefruits, white peaches, mango, and just a hint of spice that shows on the backend of the finish. The wine is produced from 86% Sauvignon Blanc, and 14% Semillon. Drink from 2026-2033. 94 Pts. 665 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lascombes (Margaux)
The first vintage with the new owners, with Axel Heinz calling the shots, comes through nicely with its nose of flowers, incense, spice, and black, with red, and blue fruits. On the palate, the wine is soft, supple, subtle, and fresh, There is energy here, as well as a relaxed, silky feeling on the palate. The freshness in the finish is capped with by mint leaves, spice, and vibrant, currants with cocoa on the backend. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, and an even mix of Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. 13.5% ABV. This is an updated style for the chateau. Loads of big changes here starting with the amount of wine placed into the Grand Vin slashed by more than 30%. The aging program is 50% new French oak, with a lighter toast, used barrels, and foudres. Drink from 2028-2055. 93-95 Pts. 1,825 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lassègue (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Crushed rocks, mint, flowers, espresso, and cherries are what you find in this vivacious, mineral-driven, bright, wine. The finish delivers a touch of salt, with the sweet red fruits, licorice, and spice. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,189 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Latour Grand Vin (Pauillac)
Quite expressive in the nose which already displays flowers, blackberries, blueberries, citrus, and Cuban cigars in the nose. This is wine focused on its freshness, energy, purity length, and complexity. The wine exchanges power for a blend of elegance, spice, drinkability, vibrancy, and sapidity. It is a sneaky wine. At first, due to its style, you might think it is an easy wine. But, do not let the initial impression fool you. The wine continues building, expanding, and retaining its racy, core of dark, red fruits, with a touch of salt that shows up in the finish. The wine is a blend of 92.3% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 7.7% Merlot. 13.2% ABV. 3.75 pH. Harvest September 7-October 2. The length of the harvest is due to breaks between picking, parcels, and varietals. The wine represents 39.1% of the harvest. Drink from 2033-2065. 97-99 Pts. 1,552 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Latour à (Pomerol)
Quite floral in its character, the wine is elegant, dark, and sensuous, with loads of ripe, dark red berries, chocolate, spice, mint, and licorice. The creamy-textured, lifted finish lingers, with its layers of sweet, and spicy fruit topped with shaved dark chocolate. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2028-2047. 92-94 Pts. 1,348 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Laujac (Médoc)
Flowers, citrus, red currants, and spice fill the nose. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, fresh , crisp, firm, and vibrant with a bright, red berry finish. This will be at its best over the near term future. Drink from 2026-2034. 88-90 Pts. 867 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Bon Pasteur (Pomerol)
Spicy, fresh, and silky, the wine is loaded with incense, flowers, cherries, plums, and chocolate. Medium-bodied, elegant, vibrant, lifted, and fresh, the fruits offer energy, and refinement. The wine blends 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2045. 92-94 Pts. 1,130 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Boscq (St. Estèphe)
Black currants, espresso, chocolate and tobacco leaf notes are all over the wine in the perfume, and on the palate. The wine is forward, soft, polished, and energetic, with a bright, yet, soft-textured finish. Drink from 2026-2040. 90-92 Pts. 1,108 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Chatelet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Bright, crisp, medium-bodied, red fruits with a savory edge accompanying the red berry core of fruit The finish, with its mint, and herbal accent is fresh, as well as reserved. The wine blends 80% Merlot, with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,044 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Chemin (Pomerol)
Rich, supple, and creamy, the wine is all about its layers of soft, creamy, ripe, chocolate-covered black cherries, licorice, plums, flowers, and espresso. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Made from 65% Merlot with 35% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2039. 90-92 Pts. 918 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Coteau (Margaux)
Flowers, black cherries, tobacco, and black raspberries come together nicely in the medium-bodied, black cherry-filled wine. Vibrant, soft, and fresh, this is already quite nice in your glass. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 961 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Coteau Hoplitis (Margaux)
One of the few Bordeaux wines produced from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon kicks off with flowers, black raspberries, and tobacco wrappers. Medium-bodied, , the wine is fresh, complex and vibrant, with sweetness to the currants, and lift in the finish. This is a Signature Selection Exclusive. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 863 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Coteau Pelopée (Margaux)
The top end wine from Le Coteau is a new cuvee made from a small, .6 hectare parcel of the estate's oldest vines which are close to 100 years of age! Aged entirely in amphora, the wine offers the essence of minerality, red currants, flowers and spice. Medium-bodied, vibrant, and bright, this is going to be fine for early drinking pleasure. This is a Signature Selections Exclusive. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 863 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Crock (St. Estèphe)
Cedar, leafy herbs, mint, and red currants pop in the nose. Medium-bodied, the wine is on the savory edge, with notes of leafy, red currants in the mid-palate, finishing with juicy fruits and soft-tannins, with a nice spicy, fresh not that comes in at the end of the finish. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc.13.45% ABV. Le Crock is the process of converting to organic farming, expecting to be certified for the 2025 vintage. Drink from 2026-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,054 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Dome (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, espresso, sandalwood, smoke, black plums, and black cherries create the perfume. The palate offers a rich layer of salty black cherries, plums, licorice, and chocolate. Equally lush, and racy, this is going to be even better with a few years of aging. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Franc with 20% Merlot, 14.1% ABV. The harvest took place September 20 - October 2. Drink from 2028-2052. 95-97 Pts. 1,287 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Doyenné (Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux)
Medium-bodied, bright, fresh, red berries, with a touch of salt and herbs in the finish. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2030. 87-89 Pts. 1,003 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Gay (Pomerol)
Truffle, licorice, smoke, dark chocolate, violets, and black cherries on the nose. The palate is creamy, fresh, vibrant, and juicy, with a bright edge to the red fruits, dark chocolate, spice, and licorice nuances that linger on the mid-palate, through to the finish. The wine will require at least a few years of aging before it begins to really start to show its best. The score could rise as the wine develops. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV, 3.7 pH. Drink from 2029-2055. 94-96 Pts. 1,332 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Moulin (Pomerol)
Black cherries, espresso, figs, and chocolate spring from the glass. Round, polished, and glossy, the fruity finish come along with creamy-textured, figs, cherries, and espresso. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 959 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Prieuré (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Quite floral in nature, you also find black raspberries, marine influences, orange, and flowers in the perfume. The wine is medium-bodied, elegant, energetic, and silky-textured on the palate, with freshness, ripe fruits, and a complicating touch of salt in the finish. The wine is a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc.14.5% ABV, 3.5 pH. Drink from 2027-2045. 92-94 Pts. 980 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Le Thil Comte Clary (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, cocoa, and black currants create the character here in the nose, and on the medium-bodied palate, which already displays its supple, round, fresh, sweet, chocolate-covered cherry core of fruits, with a hint of mint that shows in the finish. This is going to be a pleasure to enjoy on release, and for at least a decade, or more after that. The wine was produced from 92% Merlot, and 8% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV. Drink from 2027-2037. 90-92 Pts. 939 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lecuyer (Pomerol)
With a bright, crisp, almost chewy character, the wine is medium-bodied, vibrant, sweet, and chocolatey, with a core of red plums, black raspberries, espresso, and cherries. The finish is vibrant, elegant, refined, and floral, with a focus on its length, elegance, and purity. This little-known gem still sells for a song. But, not for long. The estate was recently purchased by Ronan Laborde of Chateau Clinet, so you can expect the quality to rise, as well as the price. The wine blends 75% Merlot with 15% Cabernet Franc, with 10% Cabernet Sauvignon.14.% ABV. Drink from 2027-2042. 91-93 Pts. 928 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Léoville Barton (St. Julien)
Black cherries, mint, cigar box, flowers, and cassis form the core of the perfume here. On the palate, the concentrated wine offers a big, chewy mouthful of black currants, spice, peppery herbs, and sea-salt. The finish has real staying power. The wine is the quintessential description of a modern version of a classic vintage. The wine is a blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, and 3% Cabernet Franc, 13% ABV. The harvest took place September 9 - October 2. The length of picking is the key to the success of the vintage here. Drink from 2028-2060. 93-95 Pts. 5,859 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Léoville Las Cases (St. Julien)
Cigar wrapper, creme de cassis, flowers, cherries, mint, and blackberries produce the bouquet. The palate is intense, full-bodied, concentrated, racy, and vibrant. The fruit has lift, length, purity, and a creamy edge to the racy-mouth-feel. The finish lingers, with layers of perfectly, ripe, berries that build, and expand in the mid-palate, through to the juicy, sapid finish. As always, Leoville Las Cases requires bottle aging. But for Las Cases, it is going to be a pleasure to taste relatively early, with just a decade of age. Produced from a blend 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Merlot. 13.10% ABV. 3.79 pH. Harvesting took place September 9 - October 2. This is not only the third time in the history of the estate with more Cabernet Franc than Merlot in the blend. It is also the smallest amount of Merlot ever placed into the Grand Vin. It is also interesting to note that LLC was the first major wine to be released in the 2023 campaign, setting the stage for what could take place this year. Drink from 2030-2065. 96-98 Pts. 4,665 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Léoville Poyferré (St. Julien)
Flowers, cherry pipe tobacco, herbs, currants, black raspberries, licorice, and smoke open the perfume. On the palate, the wine is silky, vibrant, rich, and refined. There is freshness, with ample fruit, which allows you to focus on the finish which is all about the sweet, clean, and pure red fruits with their lift, and energy. This is interestingly light on its feet, yet it is no featherweight wine. Holding its own, this is quite fresh, almost vivacious on the palate. and in the red berry finish. The oak already feels well integrated into the wine. The wine blends 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot. 13% ABV, Drink from 2028-2055. 95-97 Pts. 4,898 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Pavillon de Léoville Poyferré (St. Julien)
Black cherries, tobacco leaf, licorice, currants, and spice are on display in the nose. The palate offers its medium-bodied pleasures with ease, allowing you to find fresh, bright, peppery, red fruits with a soft, supple edge. This is ready to enjoy on release, and for at least a decade after that. The wine blends 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc, and 6% Petit Verdot. 13%, ABV. Drink from 2026-2037. 90-92 Pts. 1,073 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Leroy-Beauval (Entre-Deux-Mers)
Ripe, sweet, white peach, lemons, oranges, and green apples make up the nose, and the palate here, in this delicious, ready-to-go, vibrant, white wine. Drink from 2025-2029. 89 Pts. 989 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion Le C des Carmes Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
Dark berries with smoke, herbs, salt crusted rocks, oceanic influences, black currants, and cherries, and blackberries open the wines aromatics. Medium-bodied, crisp, fresh, and juicy, the wine delivers intense minerality, racy tannins, vibrant, floral-tinted fruits, and a spicy, refreshing, sapid endnote. Using 25% whole bunches the wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot, 13% ABV, 3.6%. The wine is aged in 20% new, French oak barrels, with amphora. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,444 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
Deep in color, the wine is equally deep, sporting nuances of blackberries, black cherries, flowers, blueberries, tar, herbs, and spices. On the palate, the wine is rich, full-bodied, supple, and deep. There is intensity, purity, length, and vibrancy. The wine is rich, and concentrated, yet, the cool part of the tasting is that the wine is also light on its feet. With all the obvious density, the wine never feels heavy. Although it is mouthcoating, its also elegant, leaving you with layers of crushed stones, herbs, and a wealth of ripe, sweet, dark fruits, with a touch of salty chocolate in the finish. The wine was made using 60% whole bunch clusters, blending 50% Cabernet Franc, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Merlot, 13.5% ABV, pH 3.6. The wine is aging in a combination of 70% new, French oak, 20% foudres and 10% amphora. Picking took place September 11- September 23. Drink from 2025-2050. 96-98 Pts. 7,414 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Les Charmes-Godard Blanc (Francs Côtes de Bordeaux)
White peach, yellow tropical fruit, honeysuckle, mango, and white flowers, create the nose. The palate is even better with its opulent, creamy-textured display of white, and yellow fruits, with a touch of honey on the backend. The wine blends 73% Semillon 18% Sauvignon Blanc and 9% Sauvignon Gris. Drink from 2026-2031. 92 Pts. 1,096 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Flowers, plums, cocoa, and black cherries show easily in the nose. Medium-bodied, elegant, and fresh, with energy, refinement, layers of sweet, cocoa-infused plums. The finish is creamy, vibrant, and fruity. You can enjoy this Pomerol look-alike on release if you prefer creamy, youthful fruits, or age it for its secondary characteristics. The wine blends 80% Merlot, with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2038. 92-94 Pts. 1,530 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Les Grands Chênes (Médoc)
Smoky red fruits flowers, tobacco, and cherries with hints licorice fill the nose. On the palate, the wine is fresh, fruity, and clean, with more focus than in previous vintages due to a reduction in the amount of oak used in the aging process. 60% Merlot, with 40% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 987 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Les Gravières (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Chocolate-covered black cherries, plums, flowers, with a strong mineral essence, the wine is medium-bodied, fresh, forward, and fruity, finishing with licorice, dark cocoa, and red pit fruits from start to finish. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,034 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Les Hauts-Conseillants (Lalande de Pomerol)
Dark red fruits with cocoa define the nose, and the medium-bodied, soft fresh, and fruity, elegant palate. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release and over the next decade. The wine is produced from blending 95% Merlot with 5% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2035. 90-92 Pts. 992 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Les Trois Croix (Fronsac)
Kicking off with crushed rocks, marine influences, dark, red fruits and spice in the nose, the wine is supple, fresh, fruity, and complex, finishing with salty, cherries, raspberries, and plums. Drink from 2026-2038. 92-94 Pts. 1,027 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lespault Martillac (Pessac-Léognan)
Lush, round, chocolatey, and creamy, this is loaded with loads of dark, ripe, black, with fresh, red fruits backed with equally dark chocolate, and smoke. This is going to be delicious on release, and will be even better with some time in the cellar, as it will easily age for at least a decade or more. The wine blends 55% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2039. 91-93 Pts. 1,049 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lespault Martillac Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Honeysuckle, white peaches, flowers, pineapples, orange rind, and vanilla show in the nose, as well as on the sweet, ripe, and creamy, round palate, finishing with a sweet touch of honey on top of the citrus in the finish. The wine blends 70%, old vine, Sauvignon Blanc with 30% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2030 92 Pts. 947 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lestage (Listrac-Médoc)
Creamy, soft, round cherries, licorice, and chocolate form the core of this wine. This is going to be delicious on release, and is perfect for value seekers looking for Left Bank wines with character, that won't break the bank. Drink from 2026-2038. 89-92 Pts. 934 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lilian Ladouys (St. Estèphe)
Herbs, cherries, spice, tobacco, and red currants show in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, fresh, soft, brisk, spicy, chewy, red berry palate. The wine blends 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, and 1% Cabernet Franc. 12.9% ABV, 3.81 pH. Drink from 2028-2042. 91-93 Pts. 2,167 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Louis (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, spearmint, cherry blossoms, and raspberries are on display in the nose, and on the palate. Medium-bodied, elegant, and fresh, this is going to be good-to-go on release. Drink from 2026-2035. 89-91 Pts. 879 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lousteauneuf (Médoc)
Loads of ripe fresh, chewy, red fruits, licorice, spice, and tobacco leaf with a savory edge, and a chalky finish. Give it a year or two in the bottle, and enjoy it for a decade or so, after that. Drink from 2026-2036. 88-90 Pts. 878 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lucia (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, black cherries, chocolate, espresso, and a sprig of mint produce the core of the nose, and palate here. The wine is round, medium-bodied, and polished,, with loads of chocolate-covered fruits in the finish. The wine is made from 90% Merlot, with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2036. 91-93 Pts 877 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lynch-Bages (Pauillac)
Blackberries, black cherries, licorice, mint, flowers, camphor, and cigar wrappers produce an attention-seeking perfume. On the palate, the wine is racy, fruity, intense, long, and deep. There is a strong beginning, middle, and end, with a finish that lasts. This is a true Pauillac. The wine blends 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot. 13.7% ABV. 3.75 pH. The harvest took place September 13 - October 4. Drink from 2028-2060. 94-96 Pts. 4,014 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lynch-Moussas (Pauillac)
Tobacco leaf, licorice, espresso currants, cherries, and flowers. The medium-bodied palate is loaded with soft, fresh, ripe, round, black cherries, and juicy, currants. There is length, freshness, complexity, and loads of classic character here. The wine blends 78% Cabernet Sauvignon with 22% Merlot. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2050. 92-94 Pts. 1,522 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Les Hauts de Lynch-Moussas (Haut-Médoc)
Wet earth, cigar box, and red berries define the wine with ease. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, fruity and fresh, with sweetness to the soft, red currants in the finish. It is interesting to note that the wine is produced using fruit from 2 appellations, Pauillac and Haut-Medoc. Drink from 2026-2032. 88-90 Pts. 1,001 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Magnan La Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Forward, juicy, fresh, medium-bodied, lighter-styled, elegant, cherry-filled charmer that is ready for pleasure on release. The wine blends 75% Merlot with 25% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2033. 88-90 Pts. 898 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Maillet (Pomerol)
Flowers, smoke, charcoal, black cherries, licorice, and black cherries form the nose, and the core of the wine's character on the palate. Forward, creamy, fresh, and uplifted, with a brightness to the red fruits, silky, soft, creamy textures, and cherries infused with licorice in the finish. Drink from 2027-2038. 92-94 Pts. 1,097 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Malartic-Lagravière (Pessac-Léognan)
Black cherries, flowers, licorice, smoke, and blackberries form the nucleus of the wine. Fresh, bright, and with a string sense of salt-crusted minerality on the palate, the wine finishes with a vibrant, chewy, spicy, character with an accent of garrigue accompanying the peppy red berries in the endnotes. The wine is a blend of 53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, and 1% Cabernet Franc. 13.2% ABV. Drink from 2028-2050. 92-94 Pts. 2,189 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Malescasse (Haut-Médoc)
Juicy, vibrant, forward, and fresh, the blackberries, strawberries, and currants, with their licorice, and tobacco edge are ripe, chewy, and vibrant. This is one of those top value Left Bank wines with character that sell for a song. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,247 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Malescot St. Exupéry (Margaux)
Black cherries, blackberries, licorice, chocolate, and flowers create an opulent, deep, dark, styled wine. The fruits are ripe, soft, polished, sweet, clean, and pure. There is weight, with ample lift, making it fresh, as well as fruity. he amount of new. French oak for the aging has been reduced from 80% to 60%, which has added more complexity to the wine. The wine is a blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot. 14% ABV. Harvesting took place September 19-October 10. Drink from 2029-2055. 93-95 Pts. 3,116 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Mangot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Chocolate mint, with dark red berries is what you initially notice before you find the blackberries, black raspberries, and licorice in the nose. Lively, fresh, and pure on the palate, with lift to the dark chocolate overtones, crushed rocks, and juicy plums, the wine is more elegant than robust, with a refreshing, spearmint accented backend. Give it just a year, or two of aging, and enjoy it over the next 15 or more years with pleasure. The wine is produced from a blend of 65% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,839 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château (Margaux)
In competition for wine of the vintage, with a single swirl, you find roses violets, lilacs, black, with red cherries, espresso, cocoa, and boysenberries in the haunting aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is silky, velvety, energetic, and lively. Instead of the weight and intensity found in the 2022, the 2023 focuses on its purity, refinement, length, vivacity, and sensual textures. The seamless finish resonates for 60 seconds, leaving you with lingering waves of incredibly sweet, and pure cherries. Part of the reason for the success of the vintage at Margaux is due to the combination of the amount of rain, and even more importantly, the timing of the rains, which helped the vines reach a better level of maturity. It is interesting to note that macerations were slow, and easy, with some vats taking 28 days due to the lower ABV levels. The wine blends 89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot. 13.1% ABV. 3.61 pH, 15% press wine. 41% of the crop was placed into the Grand Vin. Picking took place September 11-October 6. The length of the harvest was due to intermittent periods of rain during the harvest, so picking stopped and started, which is another key to the success in 2023. Drink from 2030-2065. 98-100 Pts. 3,119 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Marjosse (Bordeaux)
Fruity, forward, soft, round, and already delicious, the wine offers a lot of bang for the buck, as it is an easy pleasure to drink, and it sells for a song. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 1,384 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Marjosse Blanc (Entre-Deux-Mers)
Lemons, grapefruit, and green apples crowd into the nose. On the palate, the wine is fresh, bright, and crisp, with a crunchy bite of green apples, and lemon juice in the finish. Easy to drink, this is a great summer wine for seafood, or just easy drinking pleasure. Drink from 2025-2030. 90 Pts. 1,228 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Marquis d'Alesme (Margaux)
The perfume pops with flowers, cherries, mint, tobacco, smoke, mocha, and cedar. On the palate, the wine is elegant, soft, and lifted, with a spicy edge to the red berries. There is a chalky, marine influence that comes through on the back end of the finish. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV. 3.5 pH. The harvest took place from September 16 - October 6. Yields were only 32 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2028-2055. 93-95 Pts. 1,760 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Marquis de Terme (Margaux)
Tobacco, mint-leaf, cigar box, flowers, and red fruit aromatics open the perfume. Medium-bodied, soft, and silky, with a refined character from start to finish, this is quite nice, and will only improve with aging. Drink from 2027-2050. 92-94 Pts 1,738 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Maucaillou (Moulis en Médoc)
Flowers, cherries, licorice, currants, and tobacco come together in this round, soft, easy-to-like wine, with its creamy, soft-textured, chocolate-accented, cherry-filled finish. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,126 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Mauvesin Barton (Moulis en Médoc)
On the fruity side with a focus on blackberries and cherries, the medium-bodied wine is fresh, chewy, savory, and chalky with a nice, red berry note that comes in at the end. The wine will be easy to enjoy on release. The wine blends 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 1% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-90 Pts. 1,325 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Mayne Lalande (Listrac-Médoc)
Currants, orange rind, tobacco leaf and herbs are easy to spot in the nose, and on the palate of this forward, medium-bodied, bright, chewy, firm, savory-edged wine. Drink from 2026-2037. 88-90 Pts. 921 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Mazeyres (Pomerol)
Black cherries, espresso, plums, and chocolate show easily here in the perfume. The wine is medium-bodied, forward, fresh, round, edgy, and vibrant, with a bright, red pit fruit, and chocolate note, with a refreshing touch of spearmint in the finish. Drink from 2027-2035. 89-91 Pts. 1,073 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Meyney (St. Estèphe)
Black currants, flowers, tobacco, and mint add to the perfume. The fruits are chewy, dense, ripe, and lifted. There is a vibrance in the blackberry, tobacco, and herb-filled finish. Drink from 2028-2045. 91-93 Pts. 2,644 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Monbousquet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, licorice, black raspberries, and black cherries open the perfume. The wine has a depth of flavor, the fruits are fresh, as well as ripe, sweet, and long, with lift and vibrance in the finish, which allows the cream-textured wine to linger. The wine blends 65% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Franc and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.15% ABV. Drink from 2028-2040-2042. 92-94 Pts. 1,335 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Monbrison (Margaux)
Black currants, espresso, and spearmint form the character here. The wine is medium-bodied, forward, soft, and fruity, with an easy-going-charm. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,011 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Moncets (Lalande de Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, fresh, and fruity, the wine shows off its core of sweet cherries with chocolate to produce a firm, but charming wine that can provide pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2036. 88-90 Pts. 1,075 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Monlot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, cherries, and licorice form the core of the wine. Medium-bodied, crisp, and almost crunchy, with its citrus accents blended with sweet, and tart red fruits. The finish is slightly drying, so give it time to soften. Drink from 2027-2037. 89-91 Pts. 926 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Monregard La Croix (Pomerol)
Flowers, black raspberries, and cherries with an oaky edge show in the perfume with little effort. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, soft, and fruity, with vibrancy, and a bright edge to the red berries in the finish. The wine is always produced from 100% Merlot. Only 500 cases are made each vintage. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts. 983 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Croix Montlabert (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Juicy, fresh, round, and ripe, with a core of sweet black cherries, hints of chocolate, and a touch of mint in the finish. You can enjoy this on release with pleasure, and over the next few years, while waiting for the Grand Vin to develop. The wine is a parcel selection that blends 85% Merlot, with 15% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2034. 88-90 Pts. 1,006 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Montlabert (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The nose pops with mint, truffle, licorice, black cherry, and smoke in the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is elegant, soft, fresh, and vibrant. There is a refined touch to the mid-palate, and in the black-cherry oriented finish, with a nice, cocoa-filled endnote. The wine blends 75% Merlot, with 25% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,024 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Montlandrie (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Tobacco, flowers, spices, cherries, and mint form the aromatic profile. The medium-bodied palate balances between its vibrant energy, and its sweet, and spicy, bright, red fruit side. There is elegance, and length in the red, pit fruit finish. Give it a year or two in the cellar, and enjoy it for 15 or more years. The wine blends 55% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 20% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,763 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Montlisse (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Vibrant, black cherries, flowers, spice, and plums pop with little effort. The soft, lush, mineral-driven palate is vibrant, with an oaky-edge at the moment, so give it a year or two, and it should come together nicely. You can enjoy this in its youth, as well as age it for more complexities. 2026-2038. 91-93 Pts. 968 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Montrose (St. Estèphe)
The complex perfume displays its flowers, crushed rock, black raspberry, and currants with just a swirl or two. There is freshness, with a sense of purity, lift, and elegance on the palate. The wine is long, complex, and refined. This is not a blockbuster styled vintage. Instead, it is focused, harmonious, balanced, and long, with sweetness, spice, and energy that lingers in the finish. The wine is a blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, and 4% Cabernet Franc. 13.6% ABV, pH 3.7. Harvesting took place September 5 - September 28. Drink from 2030-2065. 96-98 Pts. 4,728 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Montviel (Pomerol)
Sweet, juicy, fresh, black cherries, with licorice, and a touch of cocoa in the nose and on the palate. Medium-bodied, bright, and vibrant, with a soft, elegant touch in the finish. The wine will offer pleasure on release. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV. Drink from 2026-2037. 90-92 Pts. 1,108 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Moulin de Blanchon (Haut-Médoc)
Medium-bodied, forward, fresh, crisp, and juicy, the wine serves up with bright, chewy, red berries with ease. You can enjoy this on release. Drink from 2026-2033. 86-88 Pts. 926 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Moulin du Cadet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, plums, spice, plums and floral notes are all over the place here. On the palate, the wine is silky, lush, and polished. There is sweetness, as well as lift, with an energetic, luscious finish. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 1,020 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Moulin Eyquem (Bordeaux)
Earthy, tobacco, and meaty, dark red fruits with a rustic, herbal charm and a spicy, chewy edge is what you find here. Drink from 2026-2031. 86-88 Pts, 1,055 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Moulin Haut-Laroque (Fronsac)
Black raspberries, cherries, licorice, and chocolate create the core of this charming, easy-to-like, and easy-to-drink wine. This should deliver pleasure for at least 10- 12 years. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,223 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Moulin Riche (St. Julien)
Cherries, licorice, plums, and blackberries are on display in the floral-oriented nose. The wine is medium-bodied, soft, fresh, fruity, lively, and round. The finish delivers a nice polish to the end notes. You can enjoy this on release, and for at least a decade, or more after that. The wine is a blend of 49% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, and 18% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2026-2037. 90-92 Pts. 1,113 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Moulin Saint-Georges (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, cherries, black raspberries, and plums offer the wines fragrant profile. The wine is elegant, silky, fresh, medium-bodied, and energetic, with a soft, supple, creamy, black cherry, licorice, and earthy finish, with just hint of cocoa on the backend. 85% percent Merlot, with 15% Cabernet Franc create the blend. Drink from 2027-2042. 92-94 Pts. 1,215 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Mouton Rothschild (Pauillac)
Cuban cigars, blackberries, flowers, smoke, espresso, spice, fruitcake, licorice, roasted nuts, and currants are a treat in the perfume. The palate offers layers of energetic, long, deep, fruits with a racy edge. The wine builds as it lingers with the fruit moving from red, to black, and back to red, with a refreshing sprig of mint, a touch of chocolate, and a dash of spice, adding to the complexity. The key to the vintage initial heat spell in August helped propel the grapes to phenolic ripeness. The ability to wait for the moment of their choice, allowing for a longer hangtime for the Cabernet played a major role this year. The wine blends 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 7% Merlot. Only 2010 had more Cabernet in the blend. 13.3% ABV, 3.79 pH. The harvest took place September 7 - September 30. Drink from 2030-2065. 98-100 Pts. 3,980 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Mouton Rothschild Aile D'Argent Blanc (Bordeaux)
Honeysuckle, white peaches, orange rind, and vanilla aromatics pop in the nose. Vivacious, energetic, and creamy, with the perfect honey accent that adds complexity to all the sweet, ripe, juicy, fresh, yellow citrus and pineapple. You can enjoy this on release. The wine was made from a blend of 50% Sauvignon Blanc, 44% Semillon, 5% Sauvignon Gris and 0.5% Muscadelle. Drink from 2025-2033. 94 Pts. 1,241 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Moya (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Bright, juicy, and fresh, with a core of sweet, crisp, plummy fruit, and a touch of minerality that adds a refreshing complexity to the the forward, medium-bodied palate, and finish. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 936 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Nenin (Pomerol)
Red, and white flowers, cherries, plums, and black raspberries create the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, elegant, soft, sweet, and fresh, with silky textures, and purity to the fruits in the elegant, chalky finish. The wine blends 67% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon. This is the first vintage with Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend.13.4% ABV. Drink from 2027-2042. 92-94 Pts. 1,233 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Noaillac (Médoc)
Located in the far north of the appellation, this early-drinking charmer is loaded with supple, round, cherries, cocoa, and leafy herbs. Medium-bodied, forward, fruity and read to drink, this is going to be charming on release. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,327 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Olivier (Pessac-Léognan)
Black cherries stained with tobacco leaves, flowers, licorice, and smoke are what you initially notice. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, vibrant, chewy, and brisk, with bright red berries, hint of cocoa, and spice in the juicy, finish. The wine blends 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot, 13.8% ABV. Drink from 202702040. 92-94 Pts. 1,281 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Ormes de Pez (St. Estèphe)
Cedar, mint, tobacco and currants come to the front of the wine with ease. The medium-bodied palate is soft, chewy, and fresh, with a peppery edge to the red cherries, and currants in the finish. Give it a year or two in the bottle, and this should be quite nice. The wine is a blend of 55% Merlot, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Petit Verdot. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2042. 90-92 Pts. 1,194 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pabus (Bordeaux)
Forward and fresh, with a wealth of cherries, cocoa, licorice, plums and chocolate in the nose, and on the palate. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 937 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Palmer (Margaux)
Violets, tobacco, blackberries, cigar box, spice, and black cherries form the perfume. On the palate, the wine is silky, lush, polished, and fresh. There is length, purity, velvety tannins, and a racy, energetic, fruit-packed finish, with an exotic touch of cardamon in the backend that adds even more of an edge. The almost seamless finish resonates for 50 seconds. The wine blends 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 46% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot. 14% ABV, 3.75 pH. The harvest took place September 11 - October 5. Waiting the few extra days in September made the difference in the wine this year. Yields are a scant 32 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2029-2065. 97-99 Pts. 2,289 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Paloma (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Medium-bodied, soft, fresh, and fruity, with a core of licorice, espresso, cherries, and plums, with a touch of salt at the end is the perfect setting for this easy-to-like, wine. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2033. 89-91 Pts 958 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Paloumey (Haut-Médoc)
Forward, soft, round, and creamy, the wine is packed with sweet, bright, chalky red berries, licorice, mint, tobacco and chocolate. Round, sweet, and forward, you can enjoy. Drink from 2026-2038. 89-91 Pts. 976 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pape Clément (Pessac-Léognan)
Quite floral in nature, with lemon rind, tangerine, vanilla, honeysuckle, pineapple, and white peach with a dab of honey are a pleasure in your glass. Fresh, vibrant, racy, clean, and pure, with a salty-honeyed note accompanying all of the sweet, ripe, orange, and yellow tropical fruits really works here in the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 60% Sauvignon Blanc, 35% Semillon, 4% Sauvignon Gris, and 1% Muscadelle. Picking took place August 23 - September 7. Drink from 2025-2035. 95 Pts. 31 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Paveil de Luze (Margaux)
Soft, fresh, elegant, refined, and loaded with sweet, ripe fruits, and flowers, this is one of the best vintage of Paveil de Luze I have ever tasted. Drink from 2027-2040. 89-91 Pts. 1,133 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pavie (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
With its black purple color, and just a single swirl you find blackberries, black cherries, cassis, mint, tobacco leaves, spice, and oceanic influences. The palate is even better with its layers of black, and red fruits with their gorgeous sense of purity. The wine is concentrated, deep, long, and intense, as is the minerality. There is an electric vibrance providing a racy mouthfeel that energizes the fruit in the long, expansive finish, buttressed with its aromatics on the palate. The key to the vintage was the ability to wait for the right moments to pick each varietal. To illustrate that point, some of the oldest Merlot vines were harvested after the Cabernet. The wine blends 51% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Franc, and 17% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.25% ABV, pH 3.66. Harvesting took place September 18 - October 5. Drink from 2030-2065. 97-99 Pts. 2,174 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pavie Macquin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, red berries, spice, licorice, lavender, and sea-salt are featured in the perfume. The wine on the palate is electric, edgy, fresh, and fruity. The berries are ripe, sweet, and pure, with a strong essence of minerality that you really sense as the wine lingers on your palate. The key to the wine this year is two fold. First, the newer plantings from 2013-2016 have started maturing. In the cellars, the aging program is more gentle, with close to half the amount of punch downs, so you have less extractions which allows the wine to feel more relaxed on the palate. Clearly, this is in contention for the best vintage of Pavie Mac, (As it is affectionally known) ever produced. The wine blends 82% Merlot, 17% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14.1% ABV, 3.5 pH. The harvest took place September 18 - October 3. Drink from 2029-2055. 97-99 Pts. 3,465 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pavillon Beauregard (Lalande de Pomerol)
Medium-bodied,, bright, fresh, and crisp the wine focuses on its red cherries, raspberries, strawberries, and orang rind, with just a hint of cocoa in the finish. The wine is produced in an early drinking style, so you can enjoy it on release. The wine blends 75% Merlot, with 25% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 1,040 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Péby Faugères (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Smoke, truffle, crushed rocks, licorice, chocolate, black cherries, espresso, and blackberries are everywhere here, in the nose, and on the palate. The wine is concentrated, lush, creamy, polished, dark, and deep. One of the more opulent wines of the vintage, the finish lingers with its layers of fruit. The amount of oak used used in the aging process has declined, which is a good thing here, allowing the fruit to show more purity, and freshness. The wine is produced from 100% old vine Merlot. Harvesting took place September 8. Drink from 2029-2050. 95-97 Pts. 1,192 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Péby Faugères Le Merle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Soft, supple, creamy, sweet, and fresh, the wine is going to provide a delicious tasting experience on release due to all of its ripe, round, polished, dark, red fruits, spice, and chocolate. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 951 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pedesclaux (Pauillac)
Flowers, blackberries, chocolate, and black, red, and blue fruits create the complex aromatic profile. The fruits are as ripe as they are energetic on the palate. The berries are clean, fresh, vibrant, and long, with sweetness, length, and elegance in the fragrant finish. Give it a few years in the cellar, and enjoy it over the following 2 or more decades. The wine is blended using 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, and 10% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV. Harvesting took place September 13 - October 4, making this the longest harvest in the history of Pedesclaux. Drink from 2028-2050. 93-95 Pts. 2,227 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pedesclaux Fleur de Pedesclaux (Pauillac)
Blackberries, spice, and juicy red currants are the name of the game here. The wine is medium-bodied, fresh, forward, and frankly, already delicious, leaving you with a nice blast of juicy red berries in the finish. You can enjoy this on release, and for a decade or so after that. Drink from 2026-2035. 88-90 Pts. 1,055 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Petit Bocq (St. Estèphe)
Medium-bodied, fresh, and fruity, with a core of ripe, red, with black currants, tobacco, and herbs. The wine is fresh, spicy, and tinted with cedar, and savory herbs. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,132 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Petit Faurie de Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, red fruits, licorice, and spice with cherries, black raspberries, and chocolate nuances are all over the place here, in the nose, and on the palate. The finish is rich, lush, lifted, dark, fruity, and creamy. This is going to be delicious just about on release. Drink from 2026-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,019 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Petit Gravet Ainé (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, orange rind, crushed stone, bright red fruits, and spice, with a hint of espresso, cherries, and red plums create the complex character here. This is quite salty, and vibrant, with ripeness, energy, and volume, but, the character remains reserved. This is going to be a gem if you give it time. Produced from 90% Cabernet Franc and 10% Merlot, making this one of the heaviest concentrations of Cabernet Franc in Bordeaux. Drink from 2029-2050. 93-95 Pts. 1,189 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Petit Val (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Lush, round, fruity, floral, and polished, there is loads of sweet, ripe, dark, red berries with the perfect chocolatey accent on the mid-palate, and in the finish. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,037 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Petit Val Muse de Val (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Lush, round, fruity, and polished, with layers of sweet, black, with red fruits, licorice, cocoa, and plums that carry through from start to finish. Drink from 2026-2037. 91-93 Pts. 952 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Petit Village (Pomerol)
Lilacs, wet earth, spice, mint, cocoa, cherries, black plums, and smoke create the nose. On the palate, the wine the is medium-bodied, brisk, bright, and crisp, with a vibrant edging to the fruits bringing you lift, and energy. The wine blends 65% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon.13.5% ABV. Drink from 2026-2055. 93-95 Pts. 1,237 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Petit Village Le Petit Petit Village (Pomerol)
Forward, fresh, and fruity, with soft-textures, a medium-bodied, with a layer of chocolate-edged, black raspberries that stay with you from start to finish. The wine is produced by blending 88% Merlot with 12% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2034. 88-90 Pts. 987 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pey La Tour Réserve du Château (Bordeaux Supérieur)
Espresso, with smoky black cherries shine in the nose and on the fresh, fruity, soft-palate. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 970 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Peymouton (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, mint, and licorice form the core of the wine here. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, sweet, fresh, vibrant, and slightly chewy in the finish. The wine blends 89% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,264 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Peyrabon (Haut-Médoc)
Forward, crisp, red currants shine in this medium-bodied, crunchy, vibrant, floral wine. This well-priced charmer should deliver a lot of please with just a year or so of aging. The wine blends, 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2027-2037 89-91 Pts. 1,209 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Peyredon Lagravette (Haut-Médoc)
Cedar, herbs, red fruits, and tobacco form the core of this wine in the nose, and on the palate. Soft, and supple, with freshness and vivacity, this is a well-priced, Left Bank value that is worth seeking out. This is going to be easy to taste on release, but it will age for a decade or so as well. Drink from 2026-2038. 89-91 Pts. 1,009 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Peyredon Lagravette Chardonneret (Bordeaux)
Pomelo, flowers, citrus, and white peach notes are in the nose, and on the palate. The wine offers lift, freshness, and loads of crisp, fresh, yellow citrus in the finish. Drink from 2025-2030. 89 Pts. 976 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Phélan Ségur (St. Estèphe)
Flowers, black raspberries, cherries, mint, and Asian spices fill the nose. There is richness, freshness, balance, and complexity. The wine finishes with minerality, red berries, and a touch of minty, chalk on the back end. This should be quite nice shortly after release. Drink from 2027-2047. 92-94 Pts. 2,225 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Phélan Ségur Frank Phelan (St. Estèphe)
Medium-bodied, forward, and charming, the wine focuses on its core of minty, red fruits, spice, and leafy herbs from start to finish. Drink this on release. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts 1,064 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pibran (Pauillac)
Savory-edged, bright red fruits, tobacco, cigar box, and currants form the core of this wine. The classic palate is fresh, chewy, reserved, and peppery, with a spicy, red currant endnote. The wine is made by blending 54% Cabernet Sauvignon with 46% Merlot. This is the highest percentage of Cabernet ever used in the blend at Pibran. 13.1% ABV, 3.7 pH. Drink from 2028-2040. 89-91 Pts. 1,530 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande (Pauillac)
Cuban cigars, cocoa, espresso, currants, blackberries, flowers, truffles, and smoke. On the palate, the wine is as complex as the nose. This gem is silky, sensuous, polished, fresh, and alive. The cherries, and currants, are pure. There is depth and sweetness. The wine is medium-bodied, but not light. According to the chateau, the 2023 represents their version of Back to the Future. I see their point. The wine will age effortlessly for decades, yet it is going to be fabulous to drink, even in its youth. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, and 3% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV, 3.67 pH. The harvest took place September 6 - September 27. Yields were 30 hectoliters per hectare. Only 50% of the harvest goes into the Grand Vin. Drink from 2029-2065. 96-98 Pts. 4,629 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pichon-Longueville Baron (Pauillac)
If you like a great cigar, you came to the right place as the first thing you notice is the cigar box, and tobacco wrapper nuances before moving to the smoke, leafy herb, creme de cassis, blackberries, spice, flowers, and forest floor in the perfume. The palate is even better with its multiple layers of black, with red fruits, mouthfuls of fresh, ripe, chewy, red berries, Indian spice, and a lingering finish that holds your focus for at least 50 seconds. The key to the vintage was patience during harvesting to achieve phenolic ripeness. This is the quintessential example of a classic, modern Bordeaux. The wine blends 80% Cabernet Sauvignon with 20% Merlot. 13.2% ABV, 3.7 pH. The harvest took place September 17 for the Merlot, ending October 4 with the Cabernet. 44% of the harvest went into the Grand Vin. Drink from 2030-2065. 96-98 Pts. 2,345 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pierhem (Pomerol)
Floral in nature, it is easy to find all of the chocolate, strawberries, black raspberries and licorice in the perfume. Medium-bodied, fresh, soft, forward, and fruity this is going to be fun to enjoy on release. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 999 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pierre 1er (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Floral in nature, the wine pops with cherries, licorice, plums, and spice fill the perfume. The palate is soft, supple, creamy, chocolatey, and fresh. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,214 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Plince (Pomerol)
Incense, flowers, cherries, and spice fill nose, while the medium-bodied, palate is filled with bright, fresh, vibrant, red cherries, plums, and raspberries. This is a fresh, crisp styled, bright Pomerol. Drink from 2026-2036. 88-90 Pts. 1,123 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Poesia (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, black raspberries, oceanic nuances, and just a hint of cocoa pops in the perfume. There is a vibrancy to the salty, red fruits on the palate, with a hint of orange citrus that adds to the complexity in the mildly, peppery, elegant, long, energetic finish. The wine blends 70% Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV, 3.4 pH. Drink from 2027-2047. 93-95 Pts. 1,227 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Poitevin (Médoc)
Leafy herbs, tobacco leaf, cedar, and red currants come through easily in the nose, and on the palate. Medium-bodied, forward, bright, and crisp, you can enjoy this on the young side. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,041 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pontet-Canet (Pauillac)
Flowers, cedar, tobacco leaf, black with red currants, and a hint of smoke create the perfume. The palate is full-bodied, ripe, round, and loaded with sweet, fresh, elegant, juicy, pure, black cherries, and blackberries. The wine is relaxed. Nothing is forced. Everything is in the right place. The tannins are long, there is sweetness, length, and nuances of black currants, chocolate, licorice, and mint that make an appearance in the lengthy finish. The wine blends 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot.13.8% ABV, pH 3.75. Harvesting took place September 7 - October 10. This is the earliest, as well as the longest harvest in the history of the estate. The success of the vintage is due to the ability to wait for maturity on a parcel-by-parcel basis. The wine is aging in a combination of 50% new, French oak barrels, and 35% Amphora. Drink from 2029-2060. 95-97 Pts. 14,720 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Porte-Chic (Pomerol)
Flowers, cherries, licorice and black raspberries are easy to find in the nose. On the palate, the wine is soft, supple, bright, fresh, and fruity, with a crisp, vibrant, red berry finish. This is going to be easy to enjoy on release. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts 1,110 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Potensac (Médoc)
Medium-bodied, with a floral edge to the red with black currants, tobacco, and savory herbs round out the character here, The wine is bright, sweet, savory, and crisp, in its chewy finish. The wine was produced from blending 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, and 17% Cabernet Franc.13.4% ABV. Drink from 2027-2045. 91-93 Pts. 1,777 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Poujeaux (Moulis en Médoc)
Licorice, black currants, mint, tobacco, and cedar, with flowers open the perfume. On the palate, the wine is fresh, and filled with chewy black, with red currant, anise, spice, and flowers. There is a vibrancy that lingers on the palate, and in the finish that give the wine a real upbeat nuance. The wine blends 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, and 10% Petit Verdot, 12.5% ABV, 3.8 pH. Drink from 2028-2042. 91-93 Pts. 1,833 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Preuillac (Médoc)
Flowers, tobacco cedar, and black currants already express their character in this sweet, ripe, juicy currant filled, chewy wine. This is another example of a solid, Bordeaux value wine that consumers looking for deals should take a look at. Drink from 2027-2037. 90-92 Pts. 1,020 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Prieuré Sainte-Anne (Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux)
Blended from 90% Merlot, with 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine is forward, floral, fruity, and round, with a soft-textured, easy-to-enjoy finish. Drink from 2025-2030. 89-91 Pts. 992 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Prieuré-Lichine (Margaux)
Currants, tobacco, cocoa, currants, black cherries, spice, and flowers shine in the nose. On the palate, the wine is soft, silky, and fresh with sweetness, energy, and touches of licorice, chocolate, mint, and black cherries. The finish, with its lift, and fruit is quite nice this vintage. The wine blends 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2029-2055. 92-94 Pts. 2,536 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Puygueraud (Francs Côtes de Bordeaux)
Flowers, sea salt, red fruits, and licorice already show in the nose, The wine is medium-bodied, bright, fresh, fruity, and juicy, with lift, chewiness on the palate, and vibrancy in the finish. The wine blends 90% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Malbec. Drink from 2026-2035. 89-91 Pts. 2,185 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Puygueraud Blanc (Francs Côtes de Bordeaux)
Green apples, white peach, orange rind, apricot, and pineapple nuances are at the core of this, bright, fresh, juicy, white Bordeaux. Lemon rind, white peach, and flowers on the nose get the wine going. The wine is sweet, juicy, creamy, and fresh on the palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 79% Sauvignon Blanc with 21% Sauvignon Gris. Drink from 2026-2030. 91 Pts. 1,171 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Quinault L'Enclos (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, black cherries, flowers, and plums pop in the nose. On the palate, the wine is lush, round, and forward, with sweetness, as well as lift to the fruits on the mid-palate, and in the finish. There is a nice sensation of lift that shows in the back of the finish, with all of its sweet, ripe, black cherries. The wine blends 67% Merlot, 17% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2042. 93-95 Pts. 1,302 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Quintus Le Dragon de Quintus (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, tobacco leaves, bay leaf, cherries, licorice, and cocoa fill the core of this medium-bodied, soft, fresh, and refined, red berry-filled wine with a savory edge. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. The wine blends 71.6% Merlot, and 28.4% Cabernet Franc, 14.1% ABV. Drink from 2026-2033. 91-93 Pts. 1,354 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Quintus St Emilion de Quintus (St. Émilion)
Fruity, forward, soft, and sweet, the wine is medium-bodied, with an easy-to-enjoy charm making this perfect for early-drinking pleasure. The wine blends 81.4% Merlot, with 18.6% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2032. 88-90 Pts. 968 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Rauzan-Gassies (Margaux)
Freshness, flowers, ripe, fruits, soft-tannins, and a relaxed approach work well here. The wine is medium-bodied, with vibrancy in the fruits, and lift in the currant, chocolate, espresso, and licorice-filled finish. Drink from 2028-2043. 91-93 Pts. 1,277 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Rauzan-Ségla (Margaux)
Dark in color, the array of floral notes shoot out with violets, lilacs, and roses. From there you find truffle, red and black fruits, cigar box and cedar also come IT is It is the striking nose powered by violets, and lilacs that gets the wine going, before finding all the currants, black cherries, mint, and spice in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is lush, energetic, long, deep, and rich. There is purity, paired with opulence in the long, vibrant, velvet-textured finish, with just a hint of chalk that appears on the backend. The wine is a blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13.5% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot. Once aging, this is a new, record-setting percentage of Cabernet in the blend. 14% Press wine. 13.5% ABV, 3.6 pH. The harvest took place September 7 - September 20. Yields were 30 hectoliters per hectare. The Grand Vin was produced from 50% of the harvest. Drink from 2029-2065. 96-98 Pts. 3,310 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Ripeau (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, orange rind, smoke, chocolate, and cherries show in the nose, and on the lush, round, deep, palate. The wine is polished, fruity, and already delicious . The wine blends 65% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 1,088 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Roc de Bécot (Puisseguin-St. Émilion)
Medium-bodied, black raspberry-filled, soft, fruity, early drinking charmer which will be fun to enjoy on release. This is the second wine for Brenon Becot. Drink from 2026-2030. 86-88 Pts 955 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Rochebelle (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Floral, with black raspberries, cherries, licorice, and plums that show effortlessly in the nose, and on the palate. The medium-bodied wine is lifted, vibrant, fresh, and bright, but, also complex, floral, and long. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,041 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Rocheyron (St. Émilion)
Red, and white flowers, black raspberries, licorice, espresso, black cherries, and crushed rocks pop in the perfume. On the palate, the wine manages to provide a wealth of ripe, sensuous, creamy black cherries, plums, spice, and dark chocolate with energy, length, and lift from the mid-palate, all the way through to the fruit, and chocolate finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2028-2050. 94-96 Pts. 1,484 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Rol Valentin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, black cherries, licorice, and chocolatey espresso open the perfume. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, soft, creamy, and fresh, with sweetness to the fruits, lift, and energy on the backend. The wine blends 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Malbec. Drink from 2027-2039. 91-93 Pts. 1,138 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Rouget (Pomerol)
Flowers, spice, black raspberries, cherries, and herbs create the nose. The wine is supple, creamy, fresh, and vibrant on the medium-bodied, palate. The energetic finish leaves you with loads of sweet, ripe, red fruits with a sprig of mint on the backend. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 1,568 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Roylland (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherry, licorice, flowers, cocoa, cinnamon, and plums come through in the nose, and on the palate. The wine is round, lush, chocolatey, and creamy in the mid-palate, which carries through to the finish. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 1,058 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Sacre Coeur (Pomerol)
White flowers, hints of chocolate, and plums are what you initially notice. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, soft, fresh, clean, and pure, with elegance, and lift to the sweet, cherries, cocoa, and mint in the finish. The wine was produced from 100% Merlot. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,012 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Saint-Pierre (St. Julien)
Lilacs, vanilla, cherry blossoms, and spice show along with chocolate-covered cherries, with a hint of Bourbon in the nose. Medium-bodied, elegant, racy, and refined, the wine focuses on its purity, length, and lift, instead of power, leaving you with a delicate touch of mint on the backend. The wine blends 90% Merlot, with 10% Cabernet Franc. 13.5% ABV. 10% of the wine is whole bunch fermented. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,512 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Saint-Georges Côte Pavie (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Savory black cherries, herbs, and licorice with a floral edge in the nose deftly moves to a vibrant, medium-bodied, sweet, chewy, round center of sweet, red berries, chocolate, and espresso. The wine offers an open, forward approach. The wine blends 80% Merlot, with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2038. 92-94 Pts. 1,135 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Sainte Marie Blanc Vieilles Vignes (Entre-Deux-Mers)
Lemon peels, flowers, and orange nuances for the character here, in this fresh, fruity, forward, easy-drinking white Bordeaux. Drink from 2025-2029. 88 Pts 1,032 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Sainte Marie Vieilles Vignes (Bordeaux Supérieur)
Medium-bodied, forward, fresh, fruity, easy-to-like, and easy-to-drink, as well as charming. This will be perfect to enjoy on release. Drink from 2026-2032. 965 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Sanctus (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Dark red fruits, chocolate, and licorice, with a nice touch of minerality, the wine is juicy, fruity vibrant, and round, with soft, black cherry, and salty espresso note in the finish. Drink from 2026-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,033 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Sansonnet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
I like the freshness here, which is exacerbated by its notes of citrus, red fruits, flowers, licorice, smoke, and cocoa. On the palate, the wine is equally complex with its opulent, lush, polished, silky-textures, and crush-rock accents. There is length, and purity here. The change in the in barrel aging program has allowed for more freshness, elegance, and purity to express itself in the wine. The wine blends 87% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14.5% ABV. Harvesting took place September 20 - October 3. Drink from 2028-2045. 94-96 Pts. 1,324 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Saransot-Dupré (Listrac-Médoc)
Lush, dark cherries, and even darker chocolate create the initial sensation on the palate. Creamy, and fresh, the soft, fruity, vibrant finish lingers. Drink from 2026-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,271 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Seguin (Pessac-Léognan)
Fresh, soft, round, chewy red fruits with accents of tobacco leaf, flowers, and a touch of smoke. The wine is forward, medium-bodied, and smoky in the mid-palate, as well as in the fruit-filled, soft finish. The wine blends 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, with 42% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,246 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Sénéjac (Haut-Médoc)
Medium-bodied, bright, vibrant, and fresh, with a crispness to the fruits that are competently edged with tobacco leaves, cocoa, spice, and a touch of mint. Drink from 2027-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,506 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Siaurac (Lalande de Pomerol)
Plums, flowers, cocoa, and mint pop in the nose with just a bit of air, and swirling. The palate is medium-bodied, fresh, elegant, and already accessible. It is easy to find the freshness in the plums, and cherries with their chocolate accent, and soft-textures in the mid-palate, and in the finish. You can open this with pleasure om release ,and for more than a decade. The wine is a blend of 65% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Franc, and 7% Malbec. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,397 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Sigalas Rabaud (Sauternes)
Juicy, ripe, and overripe pineapples, apricots, candied white peaches, caramel, flowers, and honey are all over the place. The finish is all about the honey-slathered, ripe, and over ripe, sweet tropical fruits with their racy edge. You can enjoy this early as well as age it. Drink from 2026-2045. 92-94 Pts. 1,258 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Simard (St. Émilion)
Mint, flowers, spice, and black raspberries fill the perfume. The wine is forward, medium-bodied, soft, fresh, and lifted, with a hint of herbs, and spice on the open, fruity palate. You can enjoy this now, or age it for a few years. The wine blends 55% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2026-2037. 90-92 Pts. 1,155 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Siran (Margaux)
Soft, lush, lifted, and vibrant, the red, and black fruits are sweet, ripe, juicy, and long. There is concentration, and energy here, with a silky edge to the ripe, poloshed berries in the finish. Drink from 2028-2045. 91-93 Pts. 1,852 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Smith Haut Lafitte (Pessac-Léognan)
The nose shoots out its tobacco, smoke, camphor, spice, floral, and black, with red fruits with only a swirl or two. The palate is even better with its fresh, energetic, black, with red fruit profile, along with its array of spices, chewy tannins, blue fruits, smoke, and dark chocolate. The wine is long, intense, focused, and complex, with a nice aromatic display in the mouth in the finish, which sticks with you for almost 50 seconds. The key to the vintage was finding the right dates to harvest coupled with a soft, gentle extraction. Picking took place from September 22 - October 5. The wine is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, and is aging in 60% New, French oak barrels for 18 months. 14% ABV. pH 3.65. Drink from 2028-2055. 96-98 Pts. 3,380 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Smith Haut Lafitte Le Petit (Pessac-Léognan)
Cigar wrapper, mesquite, spearmint, and black with red currants are in the nose, and on the palate. The wine is vibrant sweet, lifted, long, and almost racy, finishing with a long, spicy, energetic, medium-bodied, fruity finish. The wine is made from a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 40% Merlot. 14% ABV, 3.65 pH. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,518 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Sociando-Mallet (Haut-Médoc)
Chewy black currants, blackberries, herbs, cedar, and tobacco show easily. The palate is juicy, and sweet, and chewy. The fruits are sweet, bright, and fresh, with lift, concentration, and energy in the fruit-filled, chalky finish. Drink from 2029-2055. 92-94 Pts. 2,763 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Soutard (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, flowers, black cherries, and chocolate define the core of this wine. The wine is elegant, creamy, fresh, pure, and precise, The finish combines silky tannins, crushed stones, and fresh, red fruits. Drink from 2026-2047. 93-95 Pts. 1,306 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Soutard-Cadet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Inky in color, the wine is equally dark on the palate with its waves of rich, supple, creamy, chocolate-infused, plums, and black cherries. The wine is full, rich, and deep, finishing with a blast of black pit fruits, polished tannins, mint, dark cocoa, and espresso. The wine blends 90% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Petit Verdot. 14.5% ABV. The wine is aging in a combination of new, French oak barrels and amphora. Drink from 2026-2042. 93-95 Pts. 1,345 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Suduiraut (Sauternes)
Intensity is the keyword here. The wealth of ripe, and overripe white peaches, pineapples, pears, roasted cashews, apricots, spice, and vanilla is off the hook! The wine is rich, opulent, and seductive, but there is ample racy acidity giving this sweet treat the lift it needs. Long, and seamless, this is a true, decadent treat, that lovers of sweet wines should have in their cellars. It will age for decades. The wine was made from 100% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2060. 97-99 Pts. 3,782 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Suduiraut Vieilles Vignes Grand Vin Blanc Sec (Bordeaux)
Honeysuckle, white peach, lemon chiffon, and orange blossoms are all over the nose. Vibrant, juicy, crisp, and loaded with racy, sweet, citrus, and spice, this is ready to go on release and for up to a decade after that. The wine blends 57% Semillon with 43% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2025-2035. 93 Pts. 1,365 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Suduiraut Grand Vin Blanc Sec Pur Sémillon (Bordeaux)
Mango, honeysuckle, lemon meringue, white flowers, and saffron aromatics pop in the perfume. Vibrant, fresh, and with a strong sense of minerality that adds to the orange tropical fruits, roasted nuts, and pineapples, this is richness, balanced with vibrancy, and opulence. Not much is produced, as the production is roughly 200 cases per vintage. Drink from 2025-2037. 93 Pts 1,266 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Suduiraut Lions de Suduiraut Blanc Sec (Bordeaux)
Flowers, green apples, white peach, grapefruit, and spice fill the perfume. The wine is fresh, crisp, refreshing and juicy. You can enjoy this as soon as it hits the stores. The wine blends 57% Semillon, 30% Sauvignon Blanc, and 13% Sauvignon Gris. Drink from 2025-2030. 91-91 Pts. 1,240 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Taillefer (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, you find a wealth of flowers, plums, and cherries, with bitter chocolate in the nose, and on the palate. Bright, fresh, and almost crisp, there is a refreshing touch of citrus on the backend that adds lift, and complexity. Drink from 2027-2038. 88-90 Pts. 1,148 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Talbot (St. Julien)
Licorice, blackberries, black cherries, flowers, and tobacco create the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is round, creamy, and soft, with a touch of salinity in the fresh, and fruity finish, that makes you want to take another sip. Drink from 2028-2045. 92-94 Pts. 2,781 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Teyssier (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black raspberries, flowers, and red fruits fill the core of the wine in the nose, and on the medium-bodied palate. Forward, fresh, and already fun to drink, this is going to be charming to enjoy on release. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2037. 89-91 Pts. 1,366 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Teyssier (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Medium-bodied, fresh, earthy, and fruity, with a minerality essence that accompanies the chewy, dark red fruits in the nose, and on the palate. Drink it over the following decade. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 1,135 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Tour Baladoz (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Chocolate covered, black cherries, licorice, espresso, and black raspberries are readily apparent in the perfume, and on the palate. Medium-bodied, creamy, and vibrant, the fruits are a bit extracted, leaving you with a lot of juice, but a sense of dryness in the finish as well. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 1,095 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Tour Bayard (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Medium-bodied, forward, and loaded with sweet, vibrant, black cherries, plums, and a hint of espresso. The round, creamy wine finishes with more of those sweet, dark, red pit fruits, with a hint of chocolate on the backend. Drink from 2026-2037. 89-91 Pts. 1,082 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Tour Saint-Christophe (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black raspberries, flowers, black cherries, licorice, and plums pack the perfume. The palate is vivacious, with layers of sweet, black, and red plums, cherries, and raspberries. Texturally, the wine is perfectly poised between its energetic and soft, polished side, finishing with accents of salt, and spice that complement its sweet, red fruits. The wine is made from blending 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. 14.8% ABV, 3.35 pH. The harvest took place from September 18 to October 7. Drink from 2028-2048.94-96 Pts. 2,419 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Tour Saint-Fort (St. Estèphe)
Bright, crisp, juicy, spicy, red fruits shine in this medium-bodied, vibrant, crisp, chewy wine. Drink from 2026-2037. 87-89 Pts 1,056 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Tournefeuille La Cure (Lalande de Pomerol)
Produced from a blend of 70% Merlot, and 30% Cabernet Franc, the wine pops with chocolate-covered cherries, mint, and flowers. Forward, soft, round, and supple, this is long, ripe, and lush, with a bitter chocolate, and spicy cherry finish. There is a lot to like here with this Pomerol look-alike. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,055 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Trianon (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Espresso, mint, bright red fruits, and licorice show in the perfume. Medium-bodied, vibrant, fresh, and forward, the finish is all about the black-raspberries, dipped in chocolate that you find from the mid-palate, through to the finish. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,097 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Trigant (Pessac-Léognan)
Medium-bodied, soft, fresh, and vibrant, with sweetness to the fruits, elegance in the creamy textures, and bright red fruits in the finish. You can enjoy this with ease on release. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, with 40% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,103 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Tronquoy Blanc (Bordeaux)
Flowers, green apples, orange rind, and white peach aromas jump from the glass. The palate is lush, round, and fruity, expressing its tropical nature with ripe, vibrant, pineapple, white peach, mango, and tangerine. The wine is an equal blend of Semillon and Sauvignon Gris. Drink from 2025-2031. 92 Pts. 1,282 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Troplong Mondot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Deeply colored, the wine is rich, deep, full-bodied, concentrated and intense. The wine is silky, lush, with its creamy textures which come across as gentle, vibrant, and elegant, with depth, and width. The lingering finish displays sweet, red, and black fruits, salted oranges, and a beautiful chalky character on the backend. The key for the vintage here was the terroir which allowed for ample water retention during the heatwaves, and the ability to harvest at their own pace. The wine blends 84% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 3% Cabernet Franc. 14.1% ABV, 3.45 pH. Harvesting started September 5 - October 9. Drink from 2029-2060. 96-98 Pts. 3,248 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Troplong Mondot Mondot (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Cherries, flowers, and dark chocolate fill the aromatics. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, vibrant, fresh, and juicy, with black cherries, plums. and chocolate, with a salty edge in the round-textured finish. This is going to be a pleasure to enjoy on release. The wine, is a parcel selection blending 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,432 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Trotanoy (Pomerol)
The essence of violets, roses, black cherries, black raspberries, spice, smoke, espresso, chocolate, and licorice nuances provide the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, rich, supple, creamy, vibrant. There is lift, intensity, length, and sensuality, with silky tannins. The fruits are ripe, deep, and penetrating. The berries come in layers, that build in intensity, as they linger. The seamless finish remains with you for over 50 seconds! Edouard Moueix feels 2023 provides the essence of each parcels terroir. However, he was not always sure about the vintage. In fact, it took until harvest time before he slowly became confident of the quality here. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. 14.5% ABV, 3.85 pH. The harvest took place September 7 - September 19. Drink from 2029-2060. 97-99 Pts. 2,653 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Trotte Vieille (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Plum liqueur, flowers, licorice, and black cherries, with dark chocolate notes open the perfume. On the palate, the wine is plush, opulent, ripe, and deep. The fruits are bright, fresh, and most importantly, express a touch of minerality with its salty-edged fruits. There is lift, as well as purity, length and creamy tannins in the finish. The wine blends 53% Cabernet Franc, 44% Merlot, and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon.15% ABV. The harvest took place September 8 - October 4. The extended harvest is due to a parcel by parcel selection process, waiting for each block to achieve phenolic ripeness. Drink from 2028-2055. 94-96 Pts. 2,085 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Dame de Trotte Vieille (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Forward, fresh, and fruity, with softenss to the fruits on the palate, leaving you with an already accessible, charming, medium-bodied, vibrant wine that is ready-to-go on release. The wine blends 57% Merlot, with 43% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2035. 89-91 Pts. 1,075 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Valandraud (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, black raspberries, licorice, smoke, espresso, black cherries, and chocolate aromas create the complex aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is supple, creamy, and more importantly, energetic, with freshness, and elegant, creamy tannins. Long, intense, and concentrated, yet, light on its feet, the lingering finish keeps on going with its layers of ripe, sweet, fruits, salty chocolate, and espresso notes. Blending 84% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% ABV, 3.5 pH. Harvesting took place September 21 - October 15. Drink from 2029-2055. 96-98 Pts. 1,814 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Valois (Pomerol)
With flowers, and cherries defining its aromatics, the wine is soft, medium-bodied, elegant, and refined, with a silky, chocolate, and cherry-edged finish. You can enjoy this on release. Drink from 2026-2036. 88-90 Pts 1,128 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Valois L'Eclat de Valentin (Pomerol)
With strong notes of espresso, black coffee, dark chocolate, smoke and deep red fruits, the wine is lively, round, and vibrant, on the palate, with a bit too much oak in the finish. If the oak better integrates, this will be a better wine. Let it age a bit to allow the wood to better integrate. The wine is a blend of 65% Merlot, with 35% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 1,056 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Vieux Maillet (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, fresh, vibrant, floral, and forward, it will take no time at all until all the sweet, ripe plums, cherries, and cocoa begin offering their pleasures. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 1,118 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Villa Carmin (Médoc)
Medium-bodied, fresh, fruity, vibrant, and forward, the wine is going to be delicious on release with its layers of black cherries, plums, chocolate, and licorice. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,072 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Villemaurine (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Silky, fresh, lush, polished, and concentrated with layers of sweet, ripe, black, and red cherries, flowers, spice, and incense in the nose, and on the palate. The wine is refined, polished, long and pure, with a sweetness to the berries in the finish. The wine blends 70% Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2042. 93-95 Pts. 1,141 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Vray Croix de Gay (Pomerol)
Violets, chocolate, truffle, black cherries, and licorice form the perfume. On the palate, the medium-bodied wine is elegant, supple, soft, and silky. The wine is fresh, vibrant, clean, and pure, finishing with chocolate-covered cherries, black raspberries, and a hint of peppery spice, that only shows up at the end of the finish. The wine blends 98% Merlot with 2% Cabernet Franc, 14.5% ABV. This is the second vintage produced by the same team that also makes Calon Segur. Drink from 2026-2042. 91-93 Pts. 1,229 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Yon-Figeac (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Cherry blossoms, licorice, and cocoa come together nicely in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, soft, fresh, chewy, palate, finishing with a touch of salt on the cherries, and licorice on the backend. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,189 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clarendelle (Bordeaux)
Flowers, and red fruits work together perfectly in the nose, and on the medium-bodied palate. This is perfect for early-drinking pleasure. Drink from 2025-2032. 88-90 Pts 1,156 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clarendelle Blanc (Bordeaux)
Honeysuckle, and yellow citrus are already available here. The wine is crisp, fresh, and fruity, making this perfect to enjoy for uncomplicated tasting over the next few years. Drink from 2025-2028. 88 Pts. 1,145 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clarendelle (Médoc)
Tobacco leaves, and bright red fruits form the core of this wine. It is soft, forward, fruity, medium-bodied, and ready to go on release. For ordering in an easy restaurant, this is a nice choice. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 1,242 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clarendelle (St. Émilion)
Forward, fresh, lively red fruits focusing on cherries, currants and red plums. The wine is soft- already delicious for early-drinking, uncomplicated pleasure. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 1,098 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Lardière (St. Émilion)
Ripe, round, forward, and fruity, with a licorice edge, and hints of chocolate will provide pleasure on release and over the next few years. Drink from 2026-2031. 89-91 Pts. 1,068 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine Bouyer Clos 56 (Pomerol)
Produced from 100% old vine Merlot, the wine pops with chocolate, flowers, cherries, citrus, and licorice. There is a charming, lush, round, creamy quality to the earthy, black cherries, chocolate, and espresso in the finish that resonates. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,131 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Badon Thunevin (St. Émilion)
Flowers, crushed rocks, cherries, licorice, smoke, and black raspberries are easy to find, in the nose, and on the palate. Firm, and fresh, with a mineralistic-edge to the sweet, ripe, red fruits on the palate, and in the finish Give this just a year or two to soften, and come together and enjoy it over the next 12 or more years. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,184 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clos Bel Air (Pomerol)
Round, forward, soft, and polished, with a sweetness to the lifted, red, with black fruits, and a touch of cocoa on the mid-palate that sticks with you through to the finish. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,132 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos de Boüard Dame de Boüard (Montagne-St. Émilion)
If you are seeking a soft-textured, elegant, medium-bodied wine with charm, and character, packed with sweet, ripe fruits that you can enjoy with pleasure on release, that sells for a song, this is for you. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 1,163 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos de l'Oratoire (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, black raspberries, incense, and licorice fill the nose. On the palate, the wine is supple, creamy, fresh, and vibrant. The fruits show the influence of the Cabernet Franc with their spice, and floral edge. There is lift to the sweet, ripe, round berries on the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 75% Merlot, with 25% Cabernet Franc. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2042. 93-95 Pts. 2,037 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos De La Molenie (Bordeaux)
Produced from 100% Merlot, the wine is round, forward and loaded with ripe, black cherries. This is perfect for easy, uncomplicated easy drinking over the next few years, and it sells for a song! The wine is an exclusive from Signature Selections. Drink from 2025-2028. 87 Pts. 1,084 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos De La Molenie Blanc (Bordeaux Supérieur)
White peach, and pineapples with a touch of mango on the nose and palate. Fresh, crisp, and fruity, the wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. . Drink from 2025-2028. 89 Pts. 1,077 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos De La Molenie Michelot (Bordeaux Supérieur)
Ripe black cherries, with a hint of cocoa, and espresso show easily in this forward, round, easy-like wine. This is a Signature Selections exclusive. Produced from 60% Merlot, and 40% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2030. 89-91 Pts. 1,088 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos de la Vieille Église (Pomerol)
Flowers, black raspberries, licorice, and earth in the nose lead the way to a bright, fresh, vibrant, medium-bodied wine loaded with cherries, raspberries, and chocolate-coated strawberries. Drink from 2026-2039. 90-92 Pts. 1,281 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos des Jacobins (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Quite chocolatey, with an oaky edge that gives richness, as well as an espresso, dusty-edge to all of the sweet, dark red berries on the palate, and in the finish. Drink from 2026-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,251 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos des Lunes Lune d'Or (Bordeaux)
Honeysuckle, pineapples, green apples, mango, and pears show nicely in the nose, and on the creamy, fresh, and fruity palate. This is the first vintage produced from 100% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2031. 93 Pts. 1,168 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos du Marquis (St. Julien)
Cigar box, blackberries, dark red pit fruits, flowers, and tobacco leaves, along with black currants fill the perfume. The wine is concentrated, juicy, sweet, and ripe. The tannins are soft, ripe, and round. The fruit has a creamy edge in the finish, with just a bit of chewiness to the berries, making it deceptively easy to drink. Yet this can age for 2 decades. The wine was made from a blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc. 13.25% ABV. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 1,713 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Dubreuil (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black cherries, licorice, espresso, chocolate, flowers, and ripe strawberries show with ease in the perfume. Lush, creamy, polished, and sweet, with concentration, and silky tannins, you can enjoy this with pleasure on release, or age it for more earthy complexity. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,204 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Fourtet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Floral in nature, with only a swirl you find black raspberries, red plums, cherries, spice, and crushed stones in the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is balanced between its sweet, bright, red pit fruits, and salty, oceanic influences. The fruits are clean, precise, and energetic. There is length, purity, and refinement, with a lingering sensation of minerality that adds to the sweetness of the berries. This is the second vintage where the parcels of Grandes Murailles were integrated into Clos Fourtet. The wine blends 87% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.5% ABV, 3.54 pH. The harvest took place, September 14 - October 3. Drink from 2028-2055. 95-97 Pts. 2,246 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
La Closerie de Fourtet (St. Émilion)
Sweet cherries with flowers forms the character here. On the palate, the medium-bodied charming wine is forward, fresh, and sweet, making this simply delicious on release, making it easy to enjoy in a bistro, or cafe. The wine was made from blending 85% Merlot, with 15% Cabernet Franc. The wine comes from a parcel selection. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 1,196 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Hédoné (St. Émilion)
Black cherries, flowers, and plums show in the nose, and on the round, supple, fruit-filled palate. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2038. 89-91 Pts 1,171 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos l'Église (Pomerol) (Pomerol)
Chocolate mint, flowers, plums, truffle, black cherries, licorice, and herbs create the aromatic profile. The palate is even better with its layers of silky, sensuous, velvety fruits that linger. The finish is all about the sexy, chocolate-drenched, sweet, elegant plums. The wine is deep, concentrated, opulent, and sexy. Picture molten dark chocolate-coated, black plums coating your palate with lingering, sweet, fresh, lifted fruits that stick with you. The harvest took place September 12-13 for the Merlot and October 1 for the Cabernet Franc. The blend is 70% Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc, making this the highest percentage of Cabernet Franc ever used in the blend. 14% ABV 3.7 pH. Drink from 2028-2050. 94-96 Pts. 2,487 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Lunelles (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Flowers, licorice, spice, chocolate-coated black cherries, mint, and black plums get the aromatics going. On the palate, the wine is concentrated, with a salty, black with red fruit core of ripe, sweet, fresh berries. The salty-chocolate fruits linger on the palate, and in the finish with their mineral-driven essence. The wine was made from blending 70% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 10% Cabernet Franc, 14.42% ABV, 3.63 pH. Drink from 2028-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,317 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Manou (Médoc)
Espresso, black cherries, blackberries, licorice, and tobacco form the core of the wine in the nose, and on the palate, with layers of cherries, and currants in the supple, fresh finish. While this is easy to enjoy in its youth, with age, this is going to be even better. Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,543 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Marsalette (Pessac-Léognan)
Tobacco, blackberries, and barbecue smoke open the nose. Medium-bodied, forward, soft, ripe, and accessible, the wine is sweet, round, and fruity. The wine blends 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and 2% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,381 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Marsalette Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, green apples, white, with spicy accents of ginger, and peppery spice, the wine is bright, fresh and crisp, with a citrus, chalk, and green apple finish. The wine blends 56% Sauvignon Blanc with 44% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2030. 91 Pts. 1,200 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Puy Arnaud (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Flowers, chalk, and vibrant red fruits with a salty edge come through easily. The palate is energetic, with a liberal dose of crushed stones, and black cherries, leaving you with ample fruit, and mint in the finish. The wine blends 55% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 1,313 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos René (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, soft, silky, and fresh, the fruit delivers a vibrancy, elegance, and creamy character that allows the earthy, cherries, and chocolate to express their essence. The wine blends 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Malbec. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,344 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Romanile (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Flowers, licorice, espresso, incense, cherries, and smoke create the character here. The wine is medium-bodied, bright, fresh. and juicy, with a vibrant endnote. This will be fun to enjoy in its youth. Drink from 2026-2034. 90-92 Pts. 1,190 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Clos St. Martin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Plums, chocolate, flowers, and black raspberries show with little effort in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, elegant, upbeat, and fresh. The fruits are clean, pure, and long, with a juicy refreshing finish packed with with lingering dark chocolate, espresso, and black cherries, a touch of mint, and chalk in the finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a new style for Clos Saint Martin, with much less new oak, and a larger percentage of the wine aging in amphora. Drink from 2028-2041. 93-95 Pts. 1,291 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos Vieux Taillefer (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, with a strong floral character, the wine is fruity, with red cherries, red plums, and licorice. The medium-bodied wine is fresh, forward, fruity, and lifted, with a red pit fruit filled finish. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,291 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Couvent des Jacobins Calicem (St. Émilion)
Black raspberries, flowers, licorice, and cherries form the perfume. On the palate, the wine is lush, creamy, and fresh. Here you find minerality, along with mint that accents the layers of ripe, dark red berries. The long creamy, fruit-filled finish wraps everything up nicely. The wine is made from 100% old vine Merlot planted in 1961. Drink from 2027-2043. 93-95 Pts. 1,206 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Couvent des Jacobins (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Round, fruity rich, and dark, with loads of chocolate covered black cherries, licorice, flowers, and spice. The ripe, sweet, round, creamy finish really works this year. The wine blends 84% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,302 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Croix Canon (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Black raspberries, flowers, mint, cedar, and tobacco produce the aromatic profile. Medium-bodied, elegant, fresh, refined, and bright, the red fruits are vibrant, with a refreshing spearmint edge to the finish. The wine blends 54% Merlot with 46% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,287 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Peyfaures Dame de Coeur (Bordeaux Supérieur)
oft, supple, early-drinking charmer with a core of accessible, chocolate-covered cherries, and plums that will be a pleasure to enjoy on release. Drink from 2026-2031. 87-89 Pts 1,146 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine de Cambes (Bordeaux)
Herbs, spearmint, tobacco, licorice, and red berries are on display in the nose, and on the palate. The fruits are vibrant, sweet, chewy, and fresh with a savory, salty accent in the finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2037. 90-92 Pts. 1,478 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine de Chevalier (Pessac-Léognan)
Blackberries, back cherries, barbecue smoke, cedar, smoked mint, and cigar box aromatics create the perfume. The wine is chewy, fresh, long, concentrated, and complex. The finish is like eating peppery currants dripped over Cuban cigars. Long, spicy, and intense, this is a vintage that will benefit from time in the cellar. The wine blends 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV, 3.68 pH. The harvest took place September 7 - September 30. Yields are among the lowest in the appellation at 31 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2029-2055. 95-97 Pts. 4,251 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine de Chevalier Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Juicy lemons, white flowers, pomelo, green apples, and a hint of pineapples crowd into the perfume. The palate is packed with ripe, sweet, creamy, yellow citrus, green apples, honeysuckle , crushed stones, and vanilla-tinted orange rinds. You can enjoy this in its youth, or age it for more complexity. Either way, it is a treat. The wine blends 70% Sauvignon Blanc with 30% Semillon, 14% ABV, 3.21 pH. The harvest took place August 28 - September 6. Drink from 2026-2037. 95 Pts. 2,186 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
L'Esprit de Chevalier Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, pomelo, green apples, and honeysuckle fills the perfume. Round, lush, creamy, and yet fresh, there is wealth of ripe, pineapple, mango, tangerine, and lemon curd nuances on the palate that already taste, and show great. The wine blends 65% Sauvignon Blanc, and 35% Semillon, 14% ABV. Drink from 2025-2032. 92 Pts. 1,332 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine de Chevalier L'Esprit de Chevalier (Pessac-Léognan)
Fresh, bright, red berries, flowers, and cocoa show in the nose. Medium-bodied, the wine is elegant, soft, polished, silky, and vibrant, with sweet, ripe, red berries in the finish. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot. 14% ABV. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,365 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine de L'Aurage (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)
Black raspberries, licorice, espresso, and floral aromatics fill the core of the wine on the nose, and on the palate. Sweet, vibrant, earthy, and fresh, with good energy, and lift in the chalky, edged, savory finish. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2026-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,539 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine de la Solitude (Pessac-Léognan)
Smoke, tobacco leaf, and cherries with a touch of spice show up in the nose. The palate is where this shines, with its wealth of rich, supple, smoky, red fruits, and cigar wrappers that linger from start to finish. Give it only a year or two in the cellar and it will be even better. In part, due to low yields, as well as their new cellars, this is clearly the finest vintage of Domaine de la Solitude ever produced. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc. 14%ABV. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,344 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine de la Solitude Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Pineapple, vanilla, green apples, spice, pears, and white peach pop with little effort. The palate is juicy, creamy, and fresh, with sweet, yellow citrus from start to finish. The wine blends 65% Sauvignon Blanc, and 35% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2030. 91 Pts. 1,216 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine Simon Blanchard Guitard (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Flowers, citrus, truffle, and cherries already show in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, sweet, round, fruit-filled palate. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release, or age it for more secondary nuances. The wine blends 86% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, with 4% Malbec. Drink from 2026-2036. 91-93 Pts. 1,202 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine Simon Blanchard Au Champ de la Fenêtre (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Black cherries, juicy plums, licorice, chocolate, and herbs, the wine is fresh, filled with dark, red berries, chocolate, black plums, and crushed stones in the finish, with a touch of spice on the backend. The wine is produced from blending 94% old vine Merlot with 6% Malbec. The wine comes from Simon Blanchard, a member of the Stephane Derenoncourt team. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts. 1,189 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Domaine Virginie Thunevin (Bordeaux)
Flowers, cherries, licorice and espresso already show in the nose. Medium-bodied, forward, soft, fresh, energetic, and fruity, this is going to be delicious on release. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 1,224 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Echo de Lynch-Bages (Pauillac)
Flowers, currants, and cedar pop in the nose. Medium-bodied, soft, zesty, round, fresh, and vibrant, the savory-edged finish is loaded with ripe, sweet, red fruits, with a touch of herbs, dark chocolate, and spice. Drink from 2027-2040. 89-91 Pts. 1,573 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Enclos de Viaud (Lalande de Pomerol)
Flowers, herbs, licorice, cocoa, and pit fruits define the core of the wine. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, bright, fresh, and almost brisk, with a refined edge to the soft-textured, sweet berries that get even better with their hint of chocolate in the finish. This is going to be delicious on release. The wine blends 80% Merlot, with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts. 1,262 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Enclos Tourmaline (Pomerol)
Incense, flowers, cherries, cocoa, and black raspberries fill the bouquet. Silky, elegant, and medium-bodied, this discreet wine is pure, refreshing, and long with a refined character to the red berries, and chocolate-mint nuances in the finish. The wine is a blend of 97% and 3% Cabernet Franc. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2047. 93-95 Pts. 1,337 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Marquis d'Alesme Saam Long (Vin de France)
The striking nose pops with flowers, orange rind, ginger, pineapple, white peach with a touch of Indian, peppery spice. The wine is sweet, fruity, creamy, and complex. There is richness as well as lift. It is a unique profile. Its uniqueness comes from its blend of Petit Manseng, and Albarino. The wine was vinified in stainless steel and aged in used French oak barrels. Drink from 2024-2030. 91 Pts. 1,046 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Fugue de Nénin (Pomerol)
Medium-bodied, fresh, sweet, bright, and juicy, the wine is on the red berry side of the style range, and will deliver its cherry filled pleasure on release, and for close to a decade after that. Drink from 2026-2034. 89-91 Pts. 1,287 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
G d'Estournel (Médoc)
Blackberries, black cherries, chocolate, and licorice pop effortlessly. The medium-bodied palate is easy-to-like, forward, fresh, and mildly chalky, with a fun, peppery accent in the finish. This is the first vintage to include their new parcels, bringing the vineyard to 24 hectares of vines. You can enjoy this on release. The wine blends 64% Merlot, 26% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2026-2034. 90-92 Pts. 1,306 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Haut-Carles (Fronsac)
Licorice, black cherries, chocolate, and flowers show in the nose. On the palate, the wine is lush, polished, sweet, and fresh, with ripe, chocolate, and plums in the finish. Drink from 2026-2037. 91-93 Pts. 1,222 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château L'Archange (St. Émilion)
Soft, supple, silky, and fresh, the fruits are vibrant, with a red, raspberry edge to the berries, letting the purity, and energy shine this year in the nose, and on the medium-bodied palate. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot. This should be ready to go on release. Drink from 2027-2036. 90-92 Pts. 1,203 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
L'if (St. Émilion)
Quite floral in its nature, the wine is spicy, fresh, floral, and exuberant in the nose. On the palate, it is easy to see all the lift, and energy in the wine. The red berries have a vibrancy that gives energy, and length, paired with purity, and a refreshing, spicy endnote. This remains one of the new stars of St. Emilion and is a wine to follow before prices jump. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc, 14.1% ABV, pH 3.37. The harvest took place September 18-October 2. Drink from 2028-2050 95-97 Pts. 1,732 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Mission Haut-Brion La Chapelle de La Mission Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
Cigar box, smoke, currants, and dark red pit fruits show with ease. On the palate, the wine is dark in fruit, with the essence of tobacco, black currants, spice, and chalk, with a chewy, lifted, finish. Enjoy it while waiting for the Grand Vin to develop. The wine blends 48% Merlot, 39.4% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 12.3% Cabernet Franc, 14.3% ABV. 3.7 pH. Drink from 2025-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,791 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
La Clarté de Haut-Brion Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Green apples, flowers, spice, and white peach notes create the core of this wine. Juicy, sweet, and fresh, with a lemon rind, and white peach palate, this will offer its charms on release. The wine blends 56.3% Semillon, with 43.7% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2037. 93 Pts. 1,473 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou La Croix Ducru-Beaucaillou (St. Julien)
Cinnamon, espresso, roses, cherries, and currants pop in the nose, The palate is medium-bodied, fresh, silky, vibrant, and expansive. You find blackberries, currants, creamy textures, and loads of freshness in the finish. The wine is a blend of 58% Merlot, and 42% Cabernet Sauvignon. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2025-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,716 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
La Dame de Montrose (St. Estèphe)
Orange blossoms, flowers, red berries, and black cherry aromas show up with ease. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, vibrant, fresh, long, and spicy. The fruits are clean, energized, and lively. This is going to offer its significant charms shortly after release. The wine blends 61% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot, and 2% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 Pts. 1,720 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
La Petite Eglise (Pomerol)
Flowers, boysenberries, black cherries, cocoa, and plums are unmistakable in the nose. The palate is creamy, lifted, sweet, and fresh, with ripe, black cherries, freshness, dark chocolate, and the aftertaste aromas of spring flowers. Enjoy this while waiting for the Grand Vin to develop. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. 14.4% ABV. Drink from 2027-2042. 92-94 Pts. 1,480 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Sergue (Lalande de Pomerol)
Dark, lush, and creamy, with layers of sweet, ripe, black plums black cherries, dark chocolate, licorice, flowers, and spice. There is richness, and lift from start to finish. The wine blends 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Malbec. Drink from 2027-2038. 89-91 Pts. 1,517 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
La Sirène de Giscours (Margaux)
Flowers and black cherries get the wine going in the nose and on the palate. The wine is fresh, vibrant, chewy, and energetic, with a nice blast of spicy, black cherries, and peppery currants that show in the endnote. Drink from 2026-2038. 1,427 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Lacoste Borie (Pauillac)
Vibrant red fruits, cedar, tobacco, and herbs open the nose. The wine is medium-bodied, crisp, bright, and forward, with a charming, spicy red currant finish. The wine blends 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts 1,476 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Clarence de Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, red with black currants, smoke, cigar wrappers, and Indian spice create the aromatic profile. Medium-bodied, elegant, smoky, and loaded with tobacco, leafy herbs, juicy plums, and cherries, the wine is bright, long, and energetic, with a smoked herb, currant, and cigar oriented finish. This is definitely a baby Haut Brion that will drink well, quite early in life. The wine blends 55.5% Merlot, 40.9% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 3.6% Cabernet Franc. 14.2% ABV, 3.7 pH. Drink 2027-2045. 92-94 Pts. 1,640 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Clos du Beau Père Blanc du Beau-Père (Bordeaux)
White peach, lemon curd, flowers, orange rind, and mango, with a touch of spice shine in this exotic, crisp, and fruity white wine from Bordeaux. Produced from blending 60% Sauvignon Blanc, and 40% Sauvignon Gris. The first white wine from Pomerol in over 100 years could only come from Jean-Luc Thunevin and Murielle Andraud. Good luck finding any as the production is limited to about 200 cases. Drink from 2025-2030. 90 Pts. 1,355 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Clos du Beau Père (Pomerol)
Truffle, black cherry, smoke, and licorice in a forward style, with a crisp, firm, fruity finish is made even better with its shaved, dark chocolate endnote. For those seeking something unique, check out the white wine from Le Clos du Beau Pere! Drink from 2026-2038. 90-92 Pts. 1,687 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Malartic-Lagravière Le Comte de Malartic (Pessac-Léognan)
Medium-bodied, b right, fresh, raspberries, and red cherries blend together to create a forward, soft, early-drinking charmer. If you do not already know, Le Comte de Malartic is the new name for the second wine of Malartic La Graviere. The wine blends 77% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 1% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2031. 88-90 Pts 1,508 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Malartic-Lagravière Le Comte de Malartic Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Honeysuckle, lemon rind, and crisp, green apples pop in the nose and on the palate in this juicy, fresh, ready-to-go white Bordeaux wine. Enjoy this over the next few years. Drink from 2025-2029. 90 Pts. 1,506 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Marquis de Calon (St. Estèphe)
Supple, creamy, energetic layers of black, and red berries taste as good as they feel. As the fruit lingers, the wine expands and intensifies. There is a nice depth of flavor, with vibrancy here, made even better with its freshness. The wine is a blend of 50% Merlot, 48% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. 14.6% ABV, 3.6 pH. Drink from 2026-2040. 91-93 Pts. 2,335 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Nardian Blanc (Bordeaux)
Pineapples, flowers, white peach, and honeysuckle notes are easy to spot in the nose, and on the sweet,, fruity, racy palate. The wine is a blend of 70% Sauvignon Blanc, 15% Muscadelle, and 15% Semillon. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2025-2029. 92 Pts. 1,606 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Le Petit Ducru (St. Julien)
Flowers, black with blue fruits, and tobacco leaf gets the wine started. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, round, supple, and fresh, with a creamy, spicy, black cherry finish. The wine blends 72% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 4% Petit Verdot. 13.7% ABV. Drink from 2026-2037. 91-93 Pts. 1,814 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Petit Lion du Marquis de Las Cases (St. Julien)
Creme de cassis pops with your initial sniff before you find the flowers, blackberries, and tobacco notes. The wine is forward, with ample layers of blackberries, and creamy-textured, red currants to age for 12-15 years. This is a perfect introduction to Leoville Las Cases. The wine blends 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, and 8% Cabernet Franc. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2039. 90-92 Pts. 1,988 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild (Pauillac)
Cigar box, tobacco, flowers, smoke, truffle, mint, and creme de cassis form the nose. On the palate, the wine is packed with ripe, juicy, flavorful currants, herbs, spice, and black raspberries. There is length, purity, and freshness. Perhaps, most importantly, you have lift, sweetness, and creamy textures on the mid-palate, and finish. The wine blends 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12.% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot.13.3% ABV, 3.74 pH. Drink from 2028-2050. 92-94 Pts. 1,925 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Les Brulières de Beychevelle (Haut-Médoc)
Round, plummy, forward, and fresh, this is perfect for early-drinking Bordeaux charm, with ample fruit, and a nice chewy finish. This is going to be delicious on release. The wine is produced from 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 40% Merlot. Drink from 2026-2034. 88-90 Pts. 1,651 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Les Forts de Latour (Pauillac)
Smoke, blackberries, licorice, cigar wrapper, cedar, and currants permeate the nose. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, fresh, forward, and supple. The fruits are clean, fresh, and vibrant, leaving you with a juicy, red with black currant finish. This should drink well early, yet provide pleasure for at least 2 or more decades. The wine was produced from blending 55.8% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40.2% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot. 13.7% ABV, 3.7 pH. The wine represents 41% of the harvest. Drink from 2028-2045. 94-96 Pts. 2,332 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pichon-Longueville Baron Les Griffons de Pichon Baron (Pauillac)
On the floral side, with accents of espresso, mint, chocolate, cassis, and blackberries for the core of the perfume. On the medium-bodied palate, the wine is elegant, fresh, and chewy, The red berries are soft, refined, bright, crisp, and chewy. This is a perfect example of a modern, styled classic Pauillac, focused on its vibrancy, length, and freshness. The wine was created from a blend of 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot. This is the highest percentage of Cabernet ever used in the blend.13.2% ABV, 3.8 pH. Drink from 2028-2042. 92-94 Pts. 2,004 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Smith Haut Lafitte Les Hauts de Smith (Pessac-Léognan)
Cigar wrapper, flowers, black raspberries, and a dab of cocoa pop in the nose. Fresh, and fruity, the round-textured palate showcases its espresso, dark chocolate, and bright, red fruits with their spicy side. This should be close to ready-to-go on release, or with just a year or two of aging. The wine is a blend of 60% Merlot with 40% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2025-2038. 91-93 Pts. 1,814 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Smith Haut Lafitte Les Hauts de Smith Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Flowers, lemon rind, honeysuckle, mango, white peach, vanilla, and sweet pineapples are all over the aromatics. The wine is juicy, fresh, and packed with yellow citrus, along with just a dab of honey in the finish. This is perfect for early-drinking pleasure. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2024-2030. 92 Pts. 1,870 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Les Pagodes de Cos (St. Estèphe)
Licorice, flowers, cherries, and a hint of chocolate create the perfume. The palate is medium-bodied, elegant, and focused on freshness over volume. This is a refined vintage for Les Pagodes de Cos, finishing with fresh, red, and dark red fruits, a touch of spice, and just a hint of cocoa in the finish. This is going to be delicious if tasted early, and it will age well too. The wine blends 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV, 3.74 pH. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 2,327 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Les Perrières de Lafleur (Bordeaux Supérieur)
Cigar box, mint, spice, crushed rocks, black raspberries, sea salt, and red plums fill the perfume. The fruit is bright, fresh, crisp, and racy, The marine influence is quite strong, adding its salt-crusted nuances to the red berries on the mid-palate, and in the finish. This is the only vintage featuring 100% Cabernet Franc. The property has not decided if this is a trend, or a one-time-only wine. So, if you are a Cabernet Franc fan, get it while it is hot! The harvest took place September 20-September 27. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 2,387 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Les Tourelles de Longueville (Pauillac)
Dark chocolate-covered cherries, currants, cigar box, and spearmint aromas fill the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is lifted, energetic, fresh, sweet, and round, with a supple, cherry, and plum finish. While you can enjoy this on release, it promises to be better with age. The wine blends 72% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 8% Cabernet Franc. 13.5% ABV, 3.7 pH. Drink from 2028-2040. 90-92 Pts. 1,902 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Loudenne Le Château (Médoc)
Tobacco, cedar, and currants form the character here in this fruity, dark, chewy, and slightly oaky, so give it some time to age, and it will be a delicious, value-priced, Left Bank Bordeaux wine filled with juicy, sweet, black currants. Drink from 2026-2038. 89-91 Pts. 1,734 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Lynsolence (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Chocolate covered black cherries, licorice, truffle, and espresso pop in the perfume. The palate is lush, round, and polished, with a spicy edge to the layers of ripe, sweet, back with red pit fruits. 2023 is the first vintage produced without the previous owner, Denis Barraud who passed after making the 22s. Drink from 2026-2042. 91-93 Pts. 1,759 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou Madame de Beaucaillou (Haut-Médoc)
Flowers, currants, spice, and mint fill the perfume. Forward, easy-to-like, medium-bodied, fresh, and fruity, with a dab of cocoa in the finish, this is a perfect easy, drinking charmer. The wine blends 59% Merlot, 37% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 4% Petit Verdot.13% ABV. Drink from 2026-2033. 89-91 Pts. 1,874 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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Flowers, peppery, leafy herbs, and black raspberries form the core of this medium-bodied, ripe, dark, meaty, fresh, and spicy wine. The creamy textured finish is loaded with peppery, red fruits. Jean Luc Thunevin is the only vintner in Bordeaux producing this fun to drink, 100% Syrah. This will be best enjoyed in its youth. Drink from 2026-2032. 89-91 Pts 1,524 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos De La Molenie Pas de la Colline (Vin de France)
One of few, or the only Bordeaux produced from blending Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Franc, and Sauvignon Blanc is fresh, round, fruity, and polished, with a bright finish. Clearly, an interesting wine, and blend. Signature Selections Exclusive. This is going to be quite easy to enjoy on release. Drink from 2026-3031. 1,579 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Clos De La Molenie Pas de la Colline Blanc (Vin de France)
Winning the award for the most unusual blend in Bordeaux, the wine is bright, crisp, and citrusy, but lacking in character. One of few, or the only Bordeaux produced from blending Merlot, Malbec, Cabernet Franc, and Sauvignon Blanc is fresh, round, fruity, and polished, with a bright finish. The wine blends 65% Sauvignon Blanc, 25% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2026-3031. 85 Pts. 1,519 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Pauillac de Latour (Pauillac)
Blackberries, currants, licorice, and flowers are on display in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is fresh, supple, creamy, and offers its charming, creme de cassis filled core with ease. The wine was produced from a blend of 61.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34.1% Merlot, and 4.7% Petit Verdot.13.5% Abv. Drink 2028-2040. 92-94 Pts. 2,021 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Pauillac par Pascale Peyrone (Pauillac)
Dark in color, the perfume blasts its blackberries, licorice, chocolate, flowers, and spice notes. The palate is even better with its wealth of dark black, richly-textured, creamy, black, with dark red fruits. The vibrant finish lingers as it builds in intensity. Drink from 2027-2050. 92-94 Pts 1,911 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux (Bordeaux)
White flowers, pomelo, white peach, green apples, and tangerine create the perfume. The palate continues with that theme. It takes a second before the fruits sneak up on you and starts to pop in the finish, leaving with you layers of sweet, vibrant, crisp, juicy, citrus, and green apples, with a complicating touch of chalk on the the backend. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc.13. ABV. 3.15 pH. Harvesting took place only in the mornings, from August 23 - August 30. Drink from 2025-2038. 95 Pts. 2,060 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Pavillon Rouge du Château (Margaux)
Flowers, and spice, along with black cherries, tobacco wrapper, and plums spring from the glass. Elegant, refined, soft-textured, and fresh, the silky-textured, cherries are vibrant, bright, and lifted, with length, and purity. The wine was made from blending 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, and 3% Cabernet Franc. 13.3% ABV. Drink from 2027-2043. 92-94 Pts. 2,371 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Lafleur Les Pensées (Pomerol)
Quite floral in nature, you also find cherries, plums, chocolate, and a hint of citrus that is with you from the attack through to the backend. The wine is medium-bodied, ripe, round, and vibrant, with sweetness to the red pit fruits accompanied by a cocoa-infused edge, with drops of tangerine skins that you find on the palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 70% Merlot with 30% Cabernet Franc. The harvest took place September 9- September 17. Drink from 2028-2045. 92-94 Pts. 2,161 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Pétrus (Pomerol)
Flowers, chocolate, dried raspberries, cherries, spice, citrus, and a background note of truffle create the aromatic profile. On the palate, it is interesting to note the viscosity, coupled with freshness, length, and purity. There is an elegance that allows the purity in the berries to already express themselves. The velvet-textured finish, with its spices, chocolate, plums, and cherries stays with you for at least 60 seconds. The wine is perfectly balanced, seamless, and well, prefect. The success of the vintage is due in large part to waiting for the right moment to harvest, as well as taking their time to pick. With their deep, blue clay, they harvested September 11 - September 20, 14.5 ABV%, 3.65 pH. It is interesting to note that even though the wine has 30% more tannins, the wine feels soft, and silky. Drink from 2030-2065. 98-100 Pts. 2,728 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Réserve de la Comtesse (Pauillac)
Chocolate, flowers, cherries, mint, and cigar wrapper opens the perfume. The medium-bodied palate is even better with its silky, fresh, soft, expression of Cabernet. The wine finishes with a touch of salt, which only makes you want to take another sip. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot, and 5% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV. Drink from 2025-2040. 92-94 Pts. 2,897 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Reignac (Bordeaux Supérieur)
Fresh, fruity, soft, and supple, the wine is forward, vibrant, and offers a nice blast of red fruits, mint and spice. Drink from 2026-2035. 90-92 Pts. 1,998 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Reignac Blanc (Bordeaux)
Crisp, bright, juicy, and fresh, with a focus on its lemons, grapefruit, honeysuckle, and touch of crushed stones from start to finish. Drink from 2025-2028. 91 Pts. 1,911 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Roc de Cambes (Côtes de Bourg)
Concentrated, round, and juicy, with depth, lift, energy, and vibrance which allows the layers of dark, red berries, spice, and herbs to shine. The finish displays the sweetness, as well as the brightness in the fruit in the mid-palate, which carries all the way though to the chewy, red berry finish. The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14.5% ABV. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 2,466 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Saintayme (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
On the floral side of the style range, the wine also displays cocoa, cherry, herbs, spices, and walnuts. The palate is medium-bodied, with soft, silky and vibrant, red plums, cherries, and chocolate in the finish. This will be ready-to-go on release and age for more than a decade after that. The wine is produced from 100% Merlot, 14.6% ABV. Drink from 2026-2037. 90-92 Pts. 2,228 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Ségla (Margaux)
Spicy mint, cedar, tobacco, and black currant aromas focuses on what is to come. The palate offers its sweet, black cherries, smoke,, licorice, and spice easily. Soft, supple, and creamy, it is easy to see, this is going to be simply fabulous to enjoy on release while waiting for the Grand Vin to develop. The wine blends 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot, setting a record for the highest proportion of Cabernet ever used in the blend. 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2026-2040. 91-93 Pts. 2,232 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Smith Haut Lafitte Le Petit Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Honeysuckle, tangerine, mango, citrus rind, and lemon grass notes dominate the nose. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, fresh, and refreshing with a nice display of citrus, and floral notes in the finish. The wine is a blend of 80% Sauvignon Blanc, with 20% Semillon, 14% ABV. Drink from 2025-2034. 93 Pts. 2,321 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Tertre Rôteboeuf (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Licorice, black raspberries, flowers, smoke, truffle, and cherries are all the place in the nose, and on the palate. The wine is balanced between its freshness, concentration, depth, and energy. The fruit offers an almost racy profile, with its mint-accented, dark red berries, peppery spice, and licorice on the palate. The finish continues with more of those sweet, spicy, and fresh black raspberries. The blend is 85% Merlot, with 15% Cabernet Franc, 14.5% ABV. Harvesting took place on one day, September 26. Drink from 2028-2050. 94-96 Pts. 2,713 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Valandraud 3 de Valandraud (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Medium-bodied, bright, creamy, and sweet, the wine is loaded with red cherries, mint leaf, and a hint of crushed stones. The energetic finish, with its ripe, sweet red berries, and pinch of salt is straight, and juicy. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 5% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14% ABV, 3.7 pH. Drink from 2026-2034. 91-93 Pts. 2,010 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Vieux Château Certan (Pomerol)
Black cherries, flowers, chocolate, truffles, blackberries and a touch of cinnamon produce the aromatic profile. Elegance and power do not always go together. But with 2023 VCC, this is exactly what you find. There is intensity, richness, velvety-tannins, chalky accents, and layers of chocolate-infused, dark pit fruits, with wet earth, and spice. The wine is rich, full, and deep, with uplifting acidities providing energy to the long, sensuous finish. The temperate conditions of the growing season, without extreme variances is what allowed the vintage to develop its characteristics. In the cellars, the extractions were slow, soft, and easy. Pump overs were reduced by 30% this year as well. The wine blends 82% Merlot, and 18% Cabernet Franc. 14% ABV, 3.74 pH. The harvest took place September 18 - September 29. Drink from 2029-2060. 97-99 Pts. 4,066 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Vieux Château Palon (Montagne-St. Émilion)
Round, fruity, forward, fresh, and creamy, this ready-to-go, well-priced charmer already offers its licorice, cherry, and chocolate character with just a swirl or two. You can enjoy this with pleasure on release and for at least 10-12 years after that. Drink from 2026-2035. 90-92 Pts. 2,133 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Virginie de Valandraud Blanc (Bordeaux)
Flowers, lemons, grapefruit, vanilla, green apples, and orange rind scents pop in the perfume. Bright, fresh, and juicy, with a brisk, yellow citrus, and pineapple, finish, this is going to be great on release for all of its fruit, and freshness. The wine blends 70% Sauvignon Blanc, with 30% Semillon. Drink from 2025-2031. 93 Pts. 2,176 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Blanc de Fontenil (Vin de France)
White peaches, flowers, lemon peels, orange rind, and spice are presented in a bright, crisp, fresh vibrant style with ample, fruit, and complexity that offers the ability to be enjoyed young, or with age for more aromatic complexity. Drink from 2025-2032. 93 Pts. 1,931 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château La Chenade (Lalande de Pomerol)
Sweet cherries, flowers, and chocolate show in the nose. On the palate, the wine is soft, elegant, silky, and fresh. The fruit is sweet, ripe, and pure, with vibrance, and a touch of cocoa in the finish. Produced from 100% Merlot, 14.3% ABV. Drink from 2026-2036. 90-92 Pts. 2,479 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Pape Clément Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Quite floral in nature, with lemon rind, tangerine, vanilla, honeysuckle, pineapple, and white peach with a dab of honey are a pleasure in your glass. Fresh, vibrant, racy, clean, and pure, with a salty-honeyed note accompanying all of the sweet, ripe, orange, and yellow tropical fruits really works here in the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 60% Sauvignon Blanc, 35% Semillon, 4% Sauvignon Gris, and 1% Muscadelle. Picking took place August 23 - September 7. Drink from 2025-2035. 95 Pts. 2,448 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château d'Aiguilhe Le Chardonnay d'Aiguilhe (Vin de Pays Pyrénees-Atlantiques)
Pears, green apples, flowers, and tropical fruits shine in the nose, and on the fresh, sweet, juicy, crisp, citrus-oriented, fruity, vibrant palate. The wine is produced from 100% Chardonnay. Drink from 2025-2030. 92 Pts. 1,988 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le de Giscours (Haut-Médoc)
Herbal, earthy, spicy, minty, and floral with a core of currants works well in the nose, and on the chewy, spicy, palate. blends 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, and 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2036. 89-91 Pts 2,188 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Malartic-Lagravière Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
White peach, flowers, pineapple, lemon curd, papaya, and orange skin create the bouquet. The palate carries that same theme even further with its bright, zesty, creamy, sweet, yellow citrus, pineapples, and Granny Smith apples with a dash of chalk on the backend. The wine blends 80% Sauvignon Blanc, with 20% Semillon. 13.2% ABV, 3.18 pH. Drink from 2025-2035. 94 Pts. 2,905 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Guinaudeau (Lafleur) Les Champs Libres (Bordeaux)
Green apples, lemons, pomelo, pineapples, and white flowers create the perfume. The wine is bright, and energetic, the fruit, and freshness of a ripe Meyer lemon on the palate. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc, picked August 28-August 30. Drink from 2025-2034. 94 Pts. 2,130 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Saint-Pierre (Pomerol) (Pomerol)
Lilacs, vanilla, cherry blossoms, and spice show along with chocolate-covered cherries, with a hint of Bourbon in the nose. Medium-bodied, elegant, racy, and refined, the wine focuses on its purity, length, and lift, instead of power, leaving you with a delicate touch of mint on the backend. The wine blends 90% Merlot, with 10% Cabernet Franc. 13.5% ABV. 10% of the wine is whole bunch fermented. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,749 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Bourgneuf (Pomerol)
Flowers, cherries, and truffle, with nuances of chocolate are a treat in the nose. The medium-bodied palate, is vibrant, fresh, and juicy, finishing with black raspberries, cocoa, and a hint of spice that comes in on the backend of the finish. The wine blends 85% Merlot with 15% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2040. 92-94 Pts. 1,849 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château Larrivet-Haut-Brion Blanc (Pessac-Léognan)
Yellow citrus, pomelo, white peach, flowers, and Granny Smith apple aromatics shoot from the glass. On the palate, the wine is sweet, vibrant, ripe, round, and fruity, finishing with a blend of ripe, grapefruits, white peaches, mango, and just a hint of spice that shows on the backend of the finish. The wine is produced from 86% Sauvignon Blanc, and 14% Semillon. Drink from 2026-2033. 94 Pts. 1,610 Views Tasted Jun 4, 2024 |
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2023
Château de Pez (St. Estèphe)
Tobacco leaves, black currants, citrus, a drop of espresso, and flowers open the nose. Round, fruity, soft, and vibrant, the spiciness in the sweet black currants, with its licorice accent, comes through on the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 61% Cabernet 38% Merlot, and 1% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2038. 13.5% ABV. 92-94 Pts. 1,456 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2023
Le Benjamin de Beauregard (Pomerol)
Bright red fruits, with a touch of spice, cocoa, and back raspberries. The wine is forward, medium-bodied, soft, fresh, and fruity with a savory-edge in the backend. The wine blends 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2032. 1,324 Views Tasted Sep 8, 2024 |
