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"This is dark, winey and well-built for the vintage, with dark currant and black cherry reduction notes showing admirable depth. Offers ample grip ...

"What a nose for a second wine! Lovely cassis and delicately leafy/earthy aromas. It’s a rare beast: a really mineral red Bordeaux. This has excell...

"Ripe, exotic even, boasting steeped cherry, raspberry, violet, sandalwood and stone flavors allied to a silky texture. Bracing acidity keeps this ...

"This 2011 Smith Haut Lafitte has elements of tobacco, spring flowers, black cherries and blackberries. Intense and elegant. This carries to a powe...

"Saturated with blackberry, black currant and bilberry fruit, this red adds depth with licorice, violet and spice elements. Fluid, vibrant and harm...

"On the softer side for St.-Julien, but with an ample core of blackberry and black currant fruit, an energetic structure and lively licorice snap a...

The 2020 Rully has a fragrant bouquet with white peach and light tangerine aromas, clean and pure. The palate is well balanced with quite a plump o...

"The 2020 Château La Fleur-Petrus is a sensational, powerful Pomerol that brings serious depth and richness. Displaying a deep, inky color, it offe...

"One of the gems in the vintage is the 2020 Châteauneuf Du Pape Barbe Rac, a 100% Grenache that was destemmed and brought up all in concrete tanks....

"This is a very powerful Petit Mouton with so much rich fruit and power. Full-bodied, tannic yet polished and long. Muscular for the second wine of...

"A beautifully complex, dark version, humming with texture and energy. Mostly silky, but there’s a hint of pleasing chewiness to the warm currant a...

"Coming from the old Gripa vines, the 2020 Ermitage Ex-Voto is a massive, powerful wine offering loads of cassis, graphite, crushed stone, and inte...

"The 2022 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru has a refined and harmonious bouquet with red berry fruit, wild hedgerow and light oyster shell notes, ameliora...

"Deep purple-colored, the 2017 Côte Rôtie La Mordorée is another incredibly concentrated, yet elegant and ethereal wine from Chapoutier. Rock star ...

"This red is packed with effusive cherry, raspberry, black currant and blueberry fruit that’s aligned with a lush texture and supports flavors of e...

"The wild and rocky landscape of the Northern Rhone is beautifully expressed in this wine that screams violets, wild blackberries, smoked bacon and...

"The 2022 Montrachet Grand Cru is habitually never the most expressive at this stage, eventually unfolding with green apples, freshly sliced pear a...

"Another perfect wine in the lineup is the 2020 Ermitage L’Ermite Blanc, and white wine simply doesn’t get any better. I’ve never found another whi...

"Pungent aromas of moderate reduction and wood toast render the nose tough to evaluate today. More interesting are the caressing yet intensely mine...

"Descend into this labyrinth of spices and you may never return. The black fruit and the most perfect violets will take you prisoner and never rele...

"Based on earlier visits, I thought this cuvee would not be produced again as the Chaves were embarrassed by all the attention previous offerings r...

"I always loved the 1988 and this is a pretty bottle with finesse and wonderful length, showing the uniqueness of Lafite. Medium body, ultra-fine t...

"This 1998 Vosne Romanee les Beaux-Monts has a fabulous bouquet with wonderful delineation, hints of bay leaf and rose-petals infusing the mulberry...

"As I wrote last year, the 1995 Montrose is beginning to drink brilliantly, and this most recent example only confirms that. Wafting from the glass...

"Deep ruby-red. Highly perfumed black fruit nose hints at a faint roasted quality. Less voluminous and sweet than the above, but still has terrific...