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The 2021 La Fleur-Pétrus has realized all the potential it showed in barrel and stands out as a real success on the Right Bank. Wafting from the glass with notes of cherries dark berries licorice anise violets and baking chocolate... Read More

The epitome of elegance and finesse this delicate yet flavorful St.-Emilion offers a provocative display of sweet cherries raspberries and flowers in an aromatic as well as flavor profile that builds incrementally. The antithesis... Read More

Two recent tastings of the 2000 La Gomerie both reinforced my comments of seven years ago. An interesting thing about this 100% Merlot is how well it ages. Perhaps it deserves more attention. Its dense purple color is followed... Read More

"More saturated ruby-red. Deep enticing aromas of black raspberry dark chocolate and spicy oak; shows an almost roasted ripeness. Big sweet and rich; a rather powerful style of La Lagune with urgent intensity of flavor. Lovely... Read More

Medium to dark ruby-red color. Aromas are of delicate leafy cassis fruit. Leafy cassis & mulberry fruit on the palate is lifted by high acidity. The wine has light to medium body with angular tannins. The oak is beautifully handled... Read More

A monumental wine this historic La Mission-Haut-Brion was the last vintage made by the descendants of the Woltner family who had owned this estate for decades prior to selling it to their neighbors the Dillon family (the American... Read More

A somewhat under-the-radar La Mission the 2006 was generally overlooked following the brilliance of the 2005. A young dense purple-hued wine that is developing beautifully it exhibits notes of Asian plum sauce charcoal barbecue... Read More

The 2020 La Mission Haut-Brion is a brilliant effort that exhibits a level of balance and integration that are impressive in such a powerful young Bordeaux. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries and plums mingled... Read More

The 2016 La Mondotte is a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc this year picked between 29 September and 15 October and matured in 70% new oak. The alcohol level is around 14.5%. It has a lucid purple hue in the glass. The... Read More

This American-owned estate produces one of the most impressive wines made in Fronsac. Fashioned primarily from Merlot the saturated ruby/purple-colored 2006 reveals superb sweet kirsch black currant licorice forest floor and earth... Read More

"Tasted at the château the 1986 Lafite-Rothschild continues to offer an exquisite bouquet at 30 years of age. This is beautifully defined still full of energy with copious blackberry clove leather and graphite aromas that seem... Read More

"Since I gave this wine a perfect score I suppose some could see this as a downgrade. I found everything still there for a perfect rating but I was just struck by how tight and backward the wine was. A blend of 93.3% Cabernet... Read More

The main reason the 2009 Lafite Rothschild did not receive a perfect score is because the wine has closed down slightly but it is unquestionably another profound Lafite their greatest wine since the amazing 2003. Among the most... Read More

The 2022 Les Perrières de Lafleur shows just how adapted this higher-altitude site on the plateau of Fronsac is to warmer vintages. Wafting from the glass with aromas of mulberries and raspberries sweet spices and rose petals... Read More

Tasted from an ex-chateau bottle at the Lafleur vertical dinner at Attersee in Austria. I have only tasted this 1990 once before. Almost as deep in colour as the 1989 there is perhaps a touch more limpidity to this example. The... Read More

As I suspected the 1996 Lafleur is a painfully backward austere wine that represents a modern day clone of this estate's 1966. It possesses a backward tannic Medoc-like character with none of Pomerol's hallmark generosity.... Read More