48 items found
Chateau Pavie St. Emilion Grand Cru
FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT EMILION
Size750MLVintage2004SKU7260
A brilliant effort this is a surprisingly soft, forward style for this hallowed terroir, full-bodied, and concentrated creme de cassis flavors intermixed with cherries, truffles, and subtle smoky wood notes. 95+RP Wine Advocate (2004)Chateau Montrose Saint Estephe
FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT ESTEPHE
Size750MLVintage2005SKU4967
Fashioned from a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, the 2005 Montrose exhibits huge tannin, powerful floral, blueberry, and cassis flavors, and more weight as well as richness than last year. This blockbuster will need a decade or more of cellaring. 95 Pts Wine Advocate (2005)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT EMILION
Size750MLVintage2003SKU3728
Like a professional wrestler in a cashmere jumpsuit this combines power and silkiness on a monumental level. Drink this now. Alone. In the dark. By yourself.FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - POMEROL
Size750MLVintage2005SKU4972
A huge, sweet nose of creme brulee intermixed with black cherry liqueur, blackberries, tar, caramel, and mocha/coffee soars from the glass. Opulence, superb intensity, abundant quantities of sweet toasty oak, a full-bodied richness, and excellent purity as well as depth suggest it will age effortlessly for over two decades. 96pts Wine Advocate (2005)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT EMILION
Size750MLVintage2000SKU7540
Aromas of espresso roast, blueberry liqueur, smoke, and graphite. It is thick and unctuously-textured with impressive purity and depth as well as full bodied power and richness. Only 500cases produced. 96pts RP Wine Advocate (2000)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT ESTEPHE
Size750MLVintage2003SKU3832
It boasts a dense black purple color in addition to an extraordinary bouquet of scorched earth, blackberries, and cassis, fabulous purity, and substantial tannin in the finish. This superb, huge, ripe wine is one of the vintageFRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT JULIEN
Size750MLVintage1995SKU14212
This wine is of first-growth quality, not only from an intellectual perspective, but in its hedonistic characteristics.It is a classic, compelling example of Ducru-Beaucaillou that should not be missed. 95pts Wine Advocate (1995)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - PESSAC-LEOGNAN
Size750MLVintage2005SKU5020
Probably the greatest Pape-Clement ever made, the dense purple-colored 2005 exhibits sumptuous notes of smoky scorched earth, graphite, melted licorice, and blackberries. Once past the exquisite perfume, the wine reveals full body, extraordinary concentration, plenty of chocolate, smoke, cassis, and blackberry flavors. 98 points Robert ParkerChateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Pauillac
FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - PAUILLAC
Size750MLVintage2009SKU13110
A beautiful effort, the 2009 Pichon Lalande, possesses copious mocha, black currant, forest floor and herbaceous characteristics. It is a charming, surprisingly open knit Pauillac with wonderful freshness, a plump, fleshy mouthfeel, opulence and unctuosity, and a well-delineated, luscious style. 95pts Wine Advocate (2009)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT JULIEN
Size750MLVintage2005SKU5019
This is an exceptionally powerful wine with a dense purple color, superb intensity, and a beautiful, sweet nose of spring flowers, raspberries, blueberries, graphite, and creme de cassis. Full-bodied with fabulous concentration, exceptionally high tannin, good acidity, and massive layers of richness that build incrementally on the palate. 97 pts Wine Advocate (2005)Chateau Valandraud St. Emilion Grand Cru
FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT EMILION
Size750MLVintage2001SKU5941
Full bodied, opulent, voluptuously textured, pure, rich, and seriously endowed, this is a brilliant effort from BordeauxFRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT ESTEPHE
Size750MLVintage1995SKU14209
Opulent, with forward aromatics (gobs of black fruits intermixed with toasty pain grille scents and a boatload of spice), this terrific Cos possesses remarkable intensity, full body, and layers of jammy fruit nicely framed by the wine's new oak. 95pts Wine Advocate (1995)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT EMILION
Size750MLVintage2005SKU4974
A black/purple color is accompanied by aromas of charcoal, burning embers, crushed rocks, sweet, pure, blueberries and blackberries, chocolaty creme de cassis, and licorice. It possesses massive concentration, phenomenal levels of tannin, and good acidity. A modern day elixir that should prove to be monumental in 15-20 years. 98pts Wine Advocate (2008)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT ESTEPHE
Size750MLVintage2006SKU11549
Revealing superb intensity for a 2006 as well as an inky/blue/purple color, and a sweet bouquet of blue and black fruits, licorice, graphite, and charcoal, this full-bodied 2006 possesses high levels of sweet tannin. 94 pts Wine Advocate (2006)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT ESTEPHE
Size750MLVintage2003SKU3731
The prodigious, fantastic 2003 Cos d'Estournel is a candidate for wine of the vintage. A compelling perfume of black fruits, subtle smoke, and flowers with extraordinary richness, full body, and remarkable freshness, elegance, and persistence. 98 pts RP Wine Advocate (2003)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT ESTEPHE
Size750MLVintage2005SKU5016
Made from an unusually high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon (78%) and the balance mostly Merlot with a tiny dollop of Cabernet Franc, this superb effort requires plenty of time in the bottle. It boasts an inky/purple color as well as a glorious perfume of licorice, Asian spices, creme de cassis, blackberries, and toasty oak. This full-bodied St.-Estephe is exceptionally powerful, pure, and dense with a layered mid-palate that builds like a skyscraper. While there are massive tannins, they are remarkably velvety and well-integrated in this big, backstrapping effort that should enjoy an unusually long life.Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognon
FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - PESSAC-LEOGNAN
Size750MLVintage2002SKU3047
This boasts strikingly elegant aromatics of crushed stones, plums, black cherries, currants, figs, and earth. The wine possesses impressively measured power and elegance offered in a medium bodied, nicely structured, exceptionally pure format. 92-94pts RP Wine Advocate (2002)Chateau Pavie St. Emilion Grand Cru
FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT EMILION
Size750MLVintage2005SKU8571
An exquisite perfume of blackberry liqueur, unsmoked cigar tobacco, crushed rocks, damp earth, and hints of truffles and incense. The vineyard's soils have provided massive concentration, a laser like precision, fresh, zesty acidity, and massive tannin. Despite the wine's enormous concentration and intensity, there is a lightness to its style. 98+pts RP Wine Advocate (2005)Chateau Pavie St. Emilion Grand Cru
FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT EMILION
Size750MLVintage2006SKU11586
An extraordinary perfume of crushed black currants, licorice, wet stones, and subtle background oak are found in this tannic, dense, masculine-styled 2006. Backward and extraordinarily pure, with exceptional focus, depth, texture, and length. 96 points RP Wine Advocate (2006)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT EMILION
Size750MLVintage2004SKU4934
An extraordinary effort, and a candidate for wine of the vintage, the 2004 Ausone boasts an inky/blue/purple color as well as a prodigious nose of crushed rocks, white flowers, sweet truffles, black raspberries, cherries, and graphite. Although possessing huge richness as well as medium to full body, it is incredibly light on its feet..FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - PESSAC-LEOGNAN
Size750MLVintage2006SKU11583
This utterly profound, exceptionally rich, full bodied, thick La Mission is undeniably one of the candidates for the wine of the vintage. It possesses sweet blue and black fruit notes intertwined with notions of burning embers and flowers. Unctuous, massively fruity, and thick, this is a great La Mission! 95pts RP Wine Advocate (2006)FRANCE: BORDEAUX - RED - SAINT EMILION
Size750MLVintage2006SKU11546
Boasting an inky/blue/purple color as well as an extraordinary, precise bouquet of minerals, flowers, blueberry liqueur, and black currants, this wine possesses fabulous fruit and great intensity, but what makes it so special is its precision, focus, and almost ethereal lightness despite substantial flavor intensity and depth. It is a ballerina with density and power. 98 pts Wine Advocate (2006)






















