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Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, MerlotDucru Beaucaillou is on top form. Bruno Borie has made some very serious wines at Ducru in recent vintages with many vats previously destined for the grand vin now being used for the second or third labels. Bruno's policy is now to only select fruit from the...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet FrancThe second wine of Léoville Las Cases. The 2022 is a blend of 55.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38.5% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc.The 2022 Petit Lion is rich and sumptuous, but much more than that in terms of its complexity and distinction. Dramati...

Last year EP $50.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc.The 2024 Gloria is soft, fruity and very easy to like. Sweet red cherry/plum fruit, rose petal, lavender and mocha are nicely pushed forward. Gloria is very nicely balanced. It's a real charmer in 2024. 89-9...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot.Very popular chteau that was created in the 1950s by the late Henri Martin. Always good value and a top performer in 2022. The blend this year is 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 9% Petit VerdotThe 2022...

Last year EP $71.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot.The 2024 Branaire-Ducru offers up a pretty and precise bouquet of cassis, violets and pencil shavings. Medium-bodied, supple and suave, with polished tannins and tangy acids, it's a fine-boned, delicate wine...

Last year EP $80.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot.4th Growth.A very well-known chteau throughout the world. Stephane Derenoncourt consults here. Jean-Michel Laporte (formerly of La Conseillante) is now in charge and he is certainly upping the quality.The 2024 Talbot has a...

Last year EP $127.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc.This famous and historic Saint Julien 2nd growth is popular throughout the world. This is a large vineyard of 82 hectare which surrounds the chteau and has changed little in size since the 1855 classification.Gorgeous da...

Last year EP $122.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc.The 2024 Léoville Barton was picked from September 24 to October 5 and contains just a little more Cabernet Sauvignon than previous vintages. Matured in 60% new oak, this has an open bouquet with black fruit, potpourri...

Last year EP $63.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc.The 2024 Langoa-Barton is such a pretty wine. Floral and bright, with lovely mid-weight structure, Langoa is a total charmer. Rose petal, crushed red berry fruit, spice, orange peel and mint are beautifully lifted. Bright...

Last year EP $66.50-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.This chteau is the largest of all the classed growths with 117 hectares of vines. Top quality Saint Julien has been produced here since the late 1980s when it was bought by the Suntory group of Japan.2024 is 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% M...

Last year EP $132.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot.The 2024 Beychevelle was picked from September 24 until October 9 and will mature in 70% new oak. This has a nicely composed, warm and sensual bouquet with plush blackberry, cassis and touches of violet. The 42% Merlot is...

Last year EP $80.00-Second wine of Léoville Las Cases.2024 is 34% Cabernet Sauvignon, 62% Merlot and 4% Cabernet FrancFresh blueberries on the nose. Sappy and lively, this is lightly framed, sleek in terms of tannin finesse - good focus and direction from start to finish - linear in texture but the...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot.2nd Growth 1855.One of the leading "Super-Second" growths of the Médoc. The 55 hectares of vines are situated alongside those of Chteau Latour, just over the St Julien border.2024 is another strongly Cabernet vintage here ever with 84% Cabe...

Last year EP $124.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot (1%).2nd Growth.Like its neighbour Léoville Barton, Poyferré usually offers good value for money. The wines here are more smooth, ripe and fleshy than the seriously structured wines of Barton and Lascases...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet FrancHistoric and very popular Saint Julien 2nd growth - a brilliant wine that ages very well. The 2022 is 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc.Significantly, this is the first year under organic certification. It has an impres...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, MerlotOne of the leading "Super-Second" growths of the Médoc. The 55 hectares of vines are situated alongside those of Chteau Latour, just over the St Julien border. The young Cabernet vines and much of the Merlot is used for the "Petit Lion" seco...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit VerdotThe wines here are more smooth, ripe and fleshy than the seriously structured wines of Barton and Lascases. The result is a delicious St Julien that can usually charm early in its life and can stand the test of time. The 2022 bl...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit VerdotA very well-known chteau throughout the world. The big, 105 hectare, vineyard is planted with 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot. Stephane Derenoncourt consults here. Jean-Michel Laporte (formerly of La Conseillante) is now...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.Such an expressive nose, high toned, floral, a bit wild with some medicinal aspects, coffee, leather and cola notes. The texture is just gorgeous, there's a chewiness that you find in a lot of the St-Julien's but it's soft, generous, round and mouth filling...

Bordeaux Blend: Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet FrancProduced by Léoville Las Cases, but no longer their second wine. Clos du Marquis is a wine of classed growth quality in its own right, produced from a vineyard on the other side of the road near to the vines of Leoville Poyferré. 2022 is a...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit VerdotThe name has recently changed from “Croix de Beaucaillou" to “La Croix Ducru Beaucaillou". Originally a second wine of Ducru, it has been produced since 2005 from a specific vineyard site situated on the opposite side of the road from Ducru...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit VerdotThis 3rd growth chteau is the largest of all the classed growths with 117 hectares of vines. Top quality Saint Julien has been produced here since the late 1980s when it was bought by the Suntory group of Japan. The 2022 is stongly Cabernet Sau...

Last Year EP $498.00-One of the leading "Super-Second" growths of the Médoc. The 55 hectares of vines are situated alongside those of Chteau Latour, just over the St Julien border.Structured and powerful, this is not as forbidding as En Primeur in many vintages of Las Cases, showing both flesh and...

Last Year EP $118.00-2nd wine of Léoville Las Cases.Displays the tannic grip and heft that you hope to get in the 2nd wine of Léoville Las Cases, opening with a great dollop of spice, cocoa bean, espresso, black chocolate, black tea, and bright cassis fruit - will need a few years after bottling t...