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"I was very surprised to see just how stunning the wine has turned out to be. However, this particular wine was absolutely stellar, offering up a d...

"1995 Bahans Haut Brion offers cherry pipe tobacco, earth and berry scents, coupled with soft, easy to like textures and fully mature, light, brigh...

"An impressive effort in the warm 2009 vintage and, as with the 2010, this shows a slightly different profile. Needing a lot of aeration to open up...

 "All Cabernet from Champoux, Klipsun, Palengat and Wallula vineyards, this wine offers aromas of blackberry, incense, blueberry, pencil lead and b...

"Lovely aromas of black and purple fruit, tobacco leaf and sage. Full-bodied with fine, smooth tannins that are soaked in ripe, dark fruit. So much...

"Rich, backwards, structured and massively concentrated, the 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon comes mostly from the Champoux Vineyard (also from, Klipsun, P...

"Coming from the state's first Syrah vineyard, this wine offers aromas of thistle, smoke, blackberry and blue fruit, along with mineral and pomegra...

"Much more Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated, the 2009 Palengat (86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc and 6% Merlot) shows the warmer vintage with ...

"A single-vineyard blend of 59% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot, the 2012 Palengat Vineyard offers a deep, de...

"The flagship wine from the Decoster family, this blend of 80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon has been a hugely successful wi...

"One of the greatest young Cabernet Sauvignons I have ever tasted is the 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To-Kalon Vineyard (which I also rated ...

"Another classic Cabernet Sauvignon from the Golitzin's, the 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Galitzine Vineyard comes from the dry, windswept Red Mountain ...

"Moreover, the '89 Musigny is a wine which is to say more aromatically complex, with more body and richness and even more elegance as well, indeed ...

"The wine is virtually opaque, with a dense purple-red color. The nose is intensely cedarwood in nature with dense, tarry blackcurrant fruit aromas...

"The sweet, juicy, peppery kirsch on the palate hits the spot. Opulent, silky, and fresh with peppery black raspberries, herbs, and spice, along wi...

"Finely perfumed, the wine has ripe tannins and well-crafted textures. The wine's black fruits are forward, showing complex structures and the prom...

"A stunning textural experience with its silky, velvet drenched profiled. Aromatically, you find flowers, black, red and blue fruits, licorice, and...

 "This is a well-made red, blended with 13% Merlot as well as small percentages of Malbec, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Thick and concentrated,...

"Produced from 0.52ha of vines in the centre of Nuits, at the end of the combe, where the cool air from the Hautes Côtes brings freshness and struc...

"Very lush, with warmed plum sauce, cassis and linzer flavors gliding through slowly, but persistently, while cast iron and mesquite notes add rang...

"The appellation 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley is a killer value that should be snatched up by readers. Ripe black fruits, roasted herbs, cho...

"In this wine, the initial acidity gives way to richness and ripe tannins. With freshness and ripe acidity. the wine is balanced and has a great fu...

"The flagship from this great estate is the 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape Boisrenard, which is based on 80% Grenache and small doses of 17 other varieti...

"The 2018 Chambolle Musigny Village is showing very well from bottle, opening in the glass with aromas of raspberries and cherries mingled with hin...

"Packed with notes of flowers, sweet, red fruits, tobacco leaf, cherries, and plums, this gorgeous wine is rich, lush, fresh, round, and complex. Y...

"Velvet tannins and a wealth of fruit, with a purity give this wine its character. Floral, with loads of dark cherry, plum and boysenberry, licoric...

"Darkly pigmented, medium riby-red in color. The aromas are fresh & lifted with a violetey, red-fruit perfume. The whole wine is beautifully ba...

"Clos Sainte Hune is a 1,67 hectares exceptional stony argilo-calcaire, or Muschelkalk, limestone terroir, exclusively planted in Riesling, located...

"Clos Sainte Hune is a 1,67 hectares exceptional stony argilo-calcaire, or Muschelkalk, limestone terroir, exclusively planted in Riesling, located...

"Fonseca is one of the great port lodges, producing the most exotic and most complex port. it excels in its magnificently complex, intense bouquet ...

"The 1985 Fonseca is still youthful in appearance with hardly any ageing on the rim. The nose offers kirsch, sloes and Christmas cake. With time, t...

"This stunning Ducster remains almost entirely primary at present though I sense that the nose will begin to turn toward the secondary in the next ...

"Tasted in Sauternes with Charles Chevalier, the 1988 Rieussec is a vintage that Chevalier himself claimed to be his favorite. I can understand why...

"Like lemon curd on the nose, turning to honey and caramel. Full-bodied and very sweet, with fantastic concentration of ripe and botrytized fruit, ...

"Floral, chalk spiciness, hints of old oak, and flax. On the palate still compact combination of body and acidity, still a very tense silky phenoli...

"The blend is 60% Corvina, 20% Rondinella and the rest Croatina and Oseleta and the wine from raisinated grapes aged in barriques. It has a dense, ...

"Tasted from barrel, the 2021 Screaming Eagle dazzles from start to finish. Dark, savory and explosive, the 2021 deftly marries power and finesse l...

 "Again a fabulous perfume here, massive tobaccoey and ashy background, pure ripe cherry fruit, this is fabulously complex. So much ash and sweetne...

"The vineyard that produces the fruit used in the 2015 Bolgheri Rosso Camarcanda has more limestone than elsewhere in the area and has very white s...

"Good medium red. Perfumed nose combines minerals, rose petal, menthol, spices and herbs. The tightest of these 2008s, but already displaying outst...

"A magnificent vintage, the product of a very Mediterranean yet regular season that was decidedly ‘Bolgheri-esque’. The color is an intense ruby-ga...

"Aromas of baked dark-skinned fruit, cedar, cooking spice and a balsamic note unfold in the glass. A blend ofCabernet SauvignonSangiovese, andCaber...

"These are wines of immense stature and richness. It seems nearly impossible that one could pack so much intensity and flavor into a wine without e...

"This wine blew me away in the tasting, and again, it is another of the absolutely compelling, great, great wines of this vintage. Of course, it is...