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The 2020 Cos d'Estournel is a bold demonstrative wine bursting with aromas of cassis dark berries and plum liqueur mingled with exotic spices burning embers and petals framed by a generous application of creamy new oak. Full-bodied... Read More

The 2020 Ducru-Beaucaillou unwinds in the glass with aromas of dark berries pencil shavings violets and pipe tobacco all framed by creamy new oak. On the palate it's medium to full-bodied fleshy and concentrated with a deep... Read More

Composed of 73% Cabernet Sauvignon and 27% Merlot and aged for 14 months in barrels, 50% new, the 2015 Duhart-Milon has a medium to deep garnet-purple color and an open, expressive nose of warm red currants, black raspberries... Read More

"The 2014 Haut Bailly has a charming quite intense bouquet with layers of blackberry raspberry coulis black olive and melted tar scents that soar from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin well-judged acidity... Read More

The quintessential elegant style of Pomerol the 2011 La Conseillante offers copious aromas of raspberries mulberries and spring flowers. Medium-bodied with pure fruit seamlessly integrated tannin acidity and wood and a soft velvety... Read More

Tasted at the château the 2011 Montrose is a blend of 63% Cabernet Sauvignon 22% Merlot 12% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot picked between 2-27 September. The nose does not possess the exuberance of the 2008 a little conservative... Read More

"By no means the strongest of the first-growths in 2003 in fact the 2003 Mouton is probably the weakest. The selection process that was implemented by new administrator Philippe Dhalluin a few years later had not yet gone into... Read More

The 2014 Mouton-Rothschild was closed at first when I tasted the wine in bottle with winemaker Philippe Dhalluin. But as it transpires this First Growth is just toying with you. Initially quite understated it responds to aeration... Read More

The 2017 Mouton Rothschild is a blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon 9% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet-purple in color it slowly unfurls to reveal notes of warm black plums baked black cherries kirsch and freshly crushed... Read More

Quite vivid aromatics on the nose deep and heady blue fruit peppercorns liquorice and cocoa powder. Fruity and really quite dense in terms of chewiness and flavour. Stands out in the line up for being forward lifted intense and... Read More

Aromas of raspberries cassis and cherries mingle with hints of violets raw cocoa and hints of truffle in a perfumed bouquet. The 2020 Palmer is a full-bodied layered and seamless wine that's deep and concentrated with a vibrant... Read More

My impression is that the 2011 Pichon Lalande will have its day one day. For now big burly tannins give the 2011 a decidedly monolithic feel. To be sure there is plenty of fruit density and power lurking in the glass but the 2011... Read More

The 2020 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is very demonstrative out of the gates bursting from the glass without any coaxing to exhibit aromas of sweet cassis and blueberries mingled with notions of clove violets and lilac.... Read More

Deep garnet-brick colored the 2001 Rauzan-Ségla rolls out of the glass with open expressive mature notes of potpourri star anise incense and cigar box with a pretty core of kirsch redcurrant jelly and dried figs. The light to... Read More

A cool summer and a beautiful autumn resulted in the grapes being left on the vines for a long time to fully ripen with picking commencing in October. Packed full of Médoc character this has cedar menthol leather and cigar box... Read More

A tasting of the various constituent lieux-dits revealed that the Bachesson parcel had a peppery side and its characteristic rose scent and an unmistakably granitic texture. The Chalaix lieu-dit was precise fine with no huge concentration... Read More

Notes of violet chocolate iris and flowers emerge from the 2022 Saint-Joseph a medium to full-bodied sweet and sappy wine with a concentrated structured palate framed by an assertive tannic frame culminating in a long introverted... Read More

The opaque purple-colored 1996 Harlan Estate reveals extraordinary intensity a spicy black currant tobacco cedar and fruit cake-scented bouquet full body a texture oozing with glycerin and concentrated fruit and moderate tannin... Read More

Deep purple-black the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Vin State Lane Vineyard rockets out of the glass with intense notes of blackcurrant cordial plum preserves and blueberry pie plus hints of Chinese five spice dusty soil menthol... Read More

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Hartwell XX is another perfect wine in this lineup. From vines around the estate in Stags Leap, its saturated purple hue is followed by a deep, majestic, massively concentrated Cabernet Sauvignon offering... Read More

The Ornellaia 2022 Bolgheri Rosso Le Serre Nuove dell'Ornellaia is a blend of 65% Merlot 25% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Cabernet Franc that saw 15 months in barrique with one-third new oak. Following in the general Ornellaia... Read More

The 2019 Palazzi is a classic Trinoro wine with maybe a bit less bombastic intensity than some of the earlier wines but all of the seamless elegance that has long made these reds so compelling. All the elements are wonderfully... Read More

Made with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon the Tenuta San Guido 2022 Guidalberto gives you a good taste of the same DNA that brings us one of Italy's greatest wines Sassicaia but it's offered in a more immediate style here... Read More

2023 was a very good year for the Cabernets, according to Priscilla Incisa della Rocchetta, who added that a very hot start to August made it more difficult for early-ripening Merlot. As a result, Merlot has been reduced in the... Read More