Pauillac Wine

This vintage was ideal for the rich style that this estate has made its own. This wine is full bodied and ripe with black-currant and dark berry fruits. The tannins fall into the cushioned wine with ease and richness. Of course... Read More

"The second wine which has soared in quality over the last decade is an outstanding effort displaying a character similar to that of Lafite without the size depth and aging potential of that wine. The 2006 Carruades de Lafite... Read More

Of course the wine to buy in order to get a look at the Lafite Rothschild style and personality is their second wine Carruades de Lafite which has become very fashionable in Asia causing the prices to soar. A very strong effort... Read More

The 2018 Clerc Milon is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon 27% Merlot 9% Cabernet Franc 3% Petit Verdot and 1% Carménère. Medium to deep garnet-purple in color it has a very pure beautifully delineated nose of crushed blackcurrants... Read More

The 2019 Clerc Milon is a real success. At more than 70% this blend contains one of the highest proportions of Cabernet Sauvignon in the property's recent history and the result is a wine of real nobility. Offering up aromas... Read More

Gorgeous aromas of crushed currant flowers and Indian spice. Full-bodied with fine tannins. A little tight still. Give this time to show what it really has.--'95/'96 Bordeaux retrospective. Best after 2007. 21000 cases... Read More

Issue Web Only - 2016

"The finest d'Armailhac I have tasted to date the 2009 is largely Cabernet Sauvignon (60%) blended with a big wallop of Merlot (25%) and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Its dense purple color is followed by a big... Read More

"An outstanding Duhart certainly one of the best produced at this estate since the 1996 1986 and 1982 this blend of 80.5% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19.5% Merlot reveals a deep ruby/purple color as well as notes of lead pencil intermixed... 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

\"This is unquestionably a profound Grand-Puy-Lacoste it reveals an essence of creme de cassis character which sets it apart from other Pauillacs. The wine is displaying plenty of tannin huge body and sweet black currant fruit... 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

Always somewhat atypical (which I suspect will be the case with the more modern day 2003) the 1982 Latour has been the most opulent flamboyant and precocious of the northern Medocs especially the St.-Juliens Pauillacs and St.-Estephes.... Read More

Tasted blind at The Arches. Poured from magnum the 1990 Latour is a tour de force. It displays immense purity and precision on the nose with graphite and tobacco scents a hint of dried rose petal and mahogany bureau developing... 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

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

Deep garnet colored with a touch of brick the nose offers notes of cassis tobacco leaf and tar with hints of tree bark and earth. The palate is taut and savory / minerally with very firm chewy tannins somewhat dominating the restrained... 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 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