French

"A heady, exotic wine, the 2003 Mouton Rothschild takes hold of all the senses. The ripeness and exuberance of the year comes through in spades as ...

"Deep plum in colour, holding its Pauillac character perfectly at 25 years old, opening up to show cedar, pencil shavings, tobacco, graphite, cass...

"The 1975 Haut Brion is fully mature, yet is certainly one of the finest wines in the vintage. Its plummy color is followed by a classic Haut Brion...

"The 1983 Château Margaux is a fantastic wine that heralded the true return of the First Growth. This bottle came directly from the château's cella...

"Super-refined 1983 Bordeaux with an excellent deep ruby color and intense cigar-box, plum and berry aromas and flavors; there's even a hint of min...

"In terms of the brilliant complexity and nobility of the aromatics, scorched earth, black currants, plums, charcoal, cedar, and spices, the 1990 o...

"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...

"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...

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

"Charming, elegant soft, silky, and fresh, this was quite a nice surprise. The fruits are ripe, refined, sweet, and vibrant. Medium-bodied, with a ...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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, ...

"Ripe, lush red berry and plummy character. Medium-bodied, quite soft and delicious now, adding a seductive lead-pencil, mint, currant character an...

The blend consists mainly of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, complemented by a touch of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot for harmony. The wine is ele...

"The 1990 is opaque in color, with a huge, peppery, spicy, black cherry nose intermingled with aromas of Provencal herbs. In the mouth, there is ex...

"Very pretty, intense purple colour. Beautiful complexity of olfaction, followed by a fleshy, round and balanced. The end of the mouth is long and ...

"Saturated ruby-red. Pure, highly perfumed aromas of black cherry, currant, plum, minerals, tobacco, leather and fresh herbs. Very ripe, suave and ...

"The finest bottle I’ve had of this wine (which came from the estate), the 1982 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou continues to drink brilliantly and is a m...

"Terroirs: Plateau made up of chestnut-coloured and red clays over asteria limestone with east-facing terraces and west-facing slopes of very chalk...

One of Bordeaux's esteemed Second Growths, located in Margaux. The estate's vineyards unique, three distinct soil types—gravelly mound planted with...