Wine Magnums

The 2016 Extra-Brut Avize Grand Cru is another compelling Champagne in this range from Bérêche. Exotic delicate and light on its feet this has so much to offer. Lemon confit graphite sage mint and dried herb inflections reveal... Read More

Fresh and floral nose with tiles vibrant red berries and pomegranate. Stony mineral verve. Pure and expressive with good tension on the medium-bodied palate. Silky very nimble and elegant. Acidic red berries in the finish that... Read More

(63% cabernet sauvignon 30% merlot 4% petit verdot and 3% cabernet franc; 3.79 pH; 12.9% alcohol): Dark ruby with a pale rim. Strong notes of torrefaction initially; with aeration the nose turns richer and more complex with deep... Read More

Tasted ex-chateau and single blind in Southwold. Ronan Laborde has overseen a fantastic Clinet in 2008. It has an attractive floral bouquet with cassis iodine vanilla and crushed violets with fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied... Read More

With a dense purple color and gorgeous levels of fruit especially black raspberry and blackcurrant this full-bodied opulent style of wine is another great success for Clinet a château that has been on top of its game for the... Read More

A blend of 80% Sémillon and 20% Sauvignon Blanc the 2022 d'Yquem is a strong candidate for the title of wine of the vintage. Exhibiting a remarkably delicate complex and energetic bouquet of rose confit citrus exotic fruits... Read More

Tasted blind at the Valandraud vertical at the property the 2012 Valandraud instantly demonstrated the wide gap in quality between itself and the previous vintage. It is a blend of 88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet Franc matured for... 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 2020 Hosanna is rich and sun-kissed in style offering up aromas of berry liqueur figs licorice aniseed and vine smoke followed by a full-bodied ripe and gourmand palate with a generous core of confit fruit polished tannins... Read More

Another sleeper of the vintage this blend of 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc emerges from the limestone soils outside St.-Emilion. An inky/purple color is accompanied by stunningly flamboyant aromas of melted licorice white... Read More

The Château l'Eglise-Clinet 1995 was served from magnum and bottle side-by-side both ex-château with Denis Durantou. To be honest the difference in the bouquet is noticeable but not huge. They both deliver those knockout... 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 2015 Lafon Rochet is a blend of 54% Cabernet Sauvignon 35% Merlot 6% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot picked between 25 September and 9 October. Matured in 40% to 50% new oak from eight coopers including Stockinger since... Read More

Still vibrant color the 2008 Château Larcis Ducasse offers a beautiful bouquet of blackcurrants leafy herbs damp earth and hints of forest floor. This thrilling 2008 is ripe full-bodied has terrific purity of fruit and more flesh... Read More

William Kelley Wine Advocate: From my cellar the 1996 Latour is still a very youthful tightly wound wine unfurling in the glass with notions of blackcurrants loamy soil cigar wrapper and English walnuts. Medium to full-bodied... Read More

The 2000 Latour (a relatively abundant 14000 cases compared to what they produced in 2009 2008 or 2005) is “packed and stacked.� The extremely rich black/purple color to the rim is followed by a wine with some subtle smoke... Read More

"A terrific effort from Administrator Frederic Engerer and owner Francois Pinault the dark ruby/purple-tinged 2004 Latour exhibits a strong cassis character intermixed with notes of crushed rocks earth cedar and forest floor.... Read More

A blend of 91.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8.7% Merlot with just under 14% natural alcohol the 2009 Latour is basically a clone of the super 2003 only more structured and potentially more massive and long lived. An elixir of momentous... Read More

Blended of 97.1% Cabernet Sauvignon 2.6% Merlot and 0.3% Petit Verdot the deep garnet-purple colored 2015 Latour is exquisitely perfumed displaying fragrant notes of crushed black cherries raspberry preserves cassis and black... Read More