Premier

The 2017 Chateau Beychevelle is another beautiful wine from this estate, which is being run with incredible talent and passion by Romain Ducolomb, who was hired away from Chateau Clinet. This St-Julien wine is lively, elegant notes of green tobacco, lead pencil, flowers, mint, and blueberries all emerge from the glass, and it’s medium to full-bodied, with a classic, elegant texture, ripe tannins, and a great finish. This 2017 Chateau Beychevelle is up with the top wines in the vintage and will evolve for 2+ decades.

The 2017 Chateau Beychevelle wine is based on 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petit Verdot, and the rest Cabernet Franc a selection of just 52% of the production and spent 18 months in 60% new French oak.

95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
93 points James Suckling

The 2015 Chateau Bourgneuf wine is a plump, juicy Pomerol that will drink well upon release. This Chateau Bourgneuf wine is maintaining the success that this estate showed en primeur, and reflecting the positive changes made at the property under a new generation led by Frederic Vayron.

This 2015 Pomerol wine is featuring a medium garnet purple color and aromas of smoked meats, black truffles, tapenade and charcoal with a fruity core of black and red cherries, plum preserves and blueberry coulis plus a waft of aniseed. This Bordeaux wine is medium to full-bodied, delicately structured and with lively fruit expression. This 2015 Bourgneuf wine finishes on an earthy note.

The 2015 Chateau Bourgneuf wine is composed of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc.

95 points James Suckling
93 points Decanter
92 points Wine Spectator

The 2014 Chateau Branaire Ducru wine is soft, polished and super-inviting. This 2014 Branaire Ducru offers a mixture of red and black fruit on the nose, suffused with tobacco and pleasant undergrowth aromas, perhaps just missing the precision of the Beychevelle at the moment. The palate is supple on the entry with a slightly grainy texture, the acidity well judged, a little edginess towards the finish that just needs to must more depth, more drive. The 2014 Chateau Branaire Ducru wine should drink well with minimal cellaring. Today, it is among the most accessible of the Saint-Julien’s.

The 2014 Chateau Branaire Ducru wine is a blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc picked between 24 September with the early-ripening Merlot, and finishing on 11 October.

94 points Wine Enthusiast
93 points James Suckling
93 points Wine Spectator

The 2019 Chateau Brane de Cantenac wine is one of the standout Margaux. This 2019 Chateau Brane Cantenac shows more elegance and finesse in its tannins and structure than most. Giving up a beautifully complex nose of cassis and black raspberry fruits as well as cedary spice and spring flowers, it’s medium to full-bodied on the palate, has a seamless mouthfeel, beautiful purity and precision, and a great finish.

This 2019 Chateau Brane de Cantenac wine is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, 1% Carmenère, 1% Petit Verdot.

This 2019 Chateau Brane de Cantenac wine is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes. At the same time this Red wine is a perfect match with Asian dishes, hearty fish courses like tuna, salmon, mushrooms and pasta as well as cheese.

97 points Wine Advocate
97 points Vinous
96 points Decanter

The 2014 Chateau Canon wine has a very well defined and has a precise bouquet with ebullient raspberry and wild strawberry scents infused with minerals. This St-Emilion wine has aromatics which are utterly captivating. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and very well-judged acidity. There is tension and poise to this Saint Emilion wine, gently fanning out with a delicate spicy finish that lingers long in the mouth.

Though surely destined to be over-shadowed by the extraordinary 2015, this Canon wine deserves a berth in your cellar. This 2014 Chateau Canon is outstanding for the vintage, a sublime wine that might dare rank alongside the 2009 and 2010.

The 2014 Chateau Canon wine is a blend of 72% Merlot and 28% Cabernet Franc, the estate moving towards the latter in terms of its new plantings, which will possibly see 40% in 15 or 20 years time. It was picked from 22 September until 6 October for the Merlot and three days later for the Cabernet Franc, matured in around 80% new oak. Drink date 2020 – 2050.

96 points James Suckling
95 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
93 points Wine Spectator

The 2018 Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere wine is bright, punchy and full of character, just as it was from barrel. This 2018 Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere wine has a fantastic depth and richness to the nose with plums, mushrooms, bark and some mahogany. The red wine has a full-bodied, tight and focused with very fine tannins and a long, creamy finish. Sage, blood orange, mocha and spice add pretty aromatic top notes to a core of inky red purplish berry fruit. This 2018 Chateau Canon La Gaffelière wine has all the elements are so well balanced in this super-expressive Saint-Émilion. Bright floral and savory Franc notes punctuate the salivating finish, mineral-drenched finish.

Another beautiful vintage for this cuvée, the 2018 Château Canon La Gaffeliere is based on 50% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon, brought up in 50% new French oak, with the balance all in used barrels.

A prestigious Premier Grand Cru Classe of Saint-Emilion, Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere has produced in 2018 another successful vintage. Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere enjoys an exceptional location, at the foot of a hill, south of the village of Saint-Emilion, on the right bank of Bordeaux.

96 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Spectator
96 points Wine Enthusiast

A rich, exotic wine, the 2015 Chateau Cantenac Brown is simply stunning. This 2015 Chateau Cantenac Brown wine has a fresh, perfumed bouquet of raspberry, wild strawberry and cedar aromas that feel very focused and cohesive. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit and gentle grip, and quite saline in the mouth, leading into a spicy, vivacious. There is breeding interwoven into this Margaux, palpable sophistication, and it finishes with panache, fanning out with lightly spiced red and black fruit. The 2015 Chateau Cantenac Brown wine is quite concentrated and extracted in style, and yet all the elements are wonderfully fused together. This impressed in barrel just as it does here. Highly recommended. Best from 2022 through 2035.

96 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Decanter
94 points James Suckling

The 2019 Chateau Carbonnieux wine has a deep purplish ruby hue to go with a brilliant nose of red and black currants, spring flowers, spicy oak, and hints of tobacco. This Chateau Carbonnieux wine is beautiful on the palate as well and is medium to full-bodied, has a seamless, elegant texture, ripe tannins, and a great finish. It’s the finest wine I’ve tasted from this estate.

Founded in the 13th century, Chateau Carbonnieux is located in the Pessac-Léognan appellation and is one of the oldest wine estates in Bordeaux. In 1956, Marc Perrin acquired the chateau, which became a Classified Growth in 1959 for its Red and White wines.

This 2019 Chateau Carbonnieux wine has a blend Cabernet sauvignon (60%), merlot (30%), cabernet franc (5%), petit verdot (5%).

94 points Jeb Dunnuck
94 points James Suckling
93 points Wine Enthusiast

The 2012 Chateau Cheval Blanc wine has a medium to deep garnet colored. This Saint-Emilion wine reveals lovely cassis, warm black cherries and redcurrant jelly notions with underlying hints of cedar chest, garrigue, Indian spices and damp soil. The Chateau Cheval Blanc wine has a medium to full-bodied, it possesses wonderful energy and freshness on the palate with a beautifully poised ethereal nature and long mineral-tinged finish.

The Chateau Cheval Blanc 1er grand cru classé A is elegantly crafted beauty should enter its drinking window in a couple of years and cellar gracefully for another 20+ years.

The 2012 Chateau Cheval Blanc wine is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes. This Premier Grand Cru Classé “A”, wine is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms and pasta.

96 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
95 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Wine Spectator

The 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine has a deep garnet-purple in color. This Cos d’Estournel wine offers up black currants, spice cake, warm cherries and plum preserves with touches of chargrill and forest floor. This 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is medium-bodied and very firm with ripe, grainy tannins, it has a good core of earthy fruit, finishing with loads of layers and freshness.

The 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is backward and broody on the nose, just like the Pagodes de Cos, but it unfurls nicely in the glass to reveal intense blackberry, graphite and light tobacco aromas. The oak is nicely integrated here. This 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is medium-bodied with impressive depth, well-judged acidity and plenty of tobacco-infused black fruit. This is a fine Cos d’Estournel wine that should give 20 to 25 years of drinking pleasure.
Anticipated maturity: 2020 – 2040.

The 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is composed of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23.5% Merlot and 1.5% Cabernet Franc.

98 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Decanter

An extraordinary star of the Saint-Estephe appellation, the magnificent Chateau Cos D’Estournel really shone brightly in the beautiful 2018 vintage. The 2018 Chateau Cos D’Estournel wine was, in fact, the only Cru Classe of Medoc to be twice awarded 100 points by both Vinous and Wine Advocate. The 2018 Chateau Cos D’Estournel wine thus stands as a reward for the efforts of the property’s technical teams, who finally triumphed, through constant attention and intense soil work, over the challenges posed by this difficult vintage.

A beautiful vintage, the 2018 Chateau Cos D’Estournel wine promises a rare experience indeed. This spectacular vintage is endowed with the unique and inimitable signature style of Chateau Cos D’Estournel. With great precision, straight-forward and vibrating with a fantastic energy, the Cos D’Estournel 2018 offers an intense aromatic expression and a great richness on a palate structured by deliciously silky and perfectly molten tannins.

Balanced and powerful, the Cos D’Estournel 2018 brings together all the elements of a vintage that will be remembered as one of the best of Saint-Estephe in particular and Bordeaux in general. Radiating among the greatest wines of the appellation, the 2018 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is destined for age, with a tremendous potential for guard.

98 points James Suckling
98 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
97 points Decanter

The 2015 Chateau Croizet Bages wine has a bouquet of plums, cassis, earth and tobacco. This Chateau Croizet Bages wine has a medium-bodied with better weight and fruit concentration. The oak is neatly integrated and there is an attractive spicy edge on the finish. This Bordeaux wine is a vibrant and pure Pauillac exhibiting dark fruits, graphite and a touch of spice on the nose and attractive fruit expression on the palate.

The 2015 is the best vintage of Chateau Croizet Bages. Great value for its quality.

Chateau Croizet Bages is a wine estate located on the Left Bank in Pauillac, rated a fifth growth in the 1855 Classification of Médoc and Graves. Its grand vin is based on the classic Bordeaux blend, with Cabernet Sauvignon in the starring role.

90 points Wine Enthusiast

The 2018 Chateau d’Aiguilhe wine has a medium to deep garnet-purple in color. This Chateau d’Aiguilhe jumps up out of the glass with exuberant notes of plum preserves, Black Forest cake and blackberry pie, plus hints of potpourri, hoisin and forest floor. The medium to full-bodied palate has a soft texture and oodles of freshness supporting the mouth-coating black fruit preserves, finishing with loads of exotic spice layers.

A magnificent expression of the superb terroirs of Castillon, on the right bank of Bordeaux, the 2018 Chateau d’Aiguilhe wine from Castillon-Côtes de Bordeaux is one of the most beautiful references of its appellation.

The product of a very good vintage for the Bordeaux region, the 2018 Chateau d’Aiguilhe wine is made from a blend of Merlot (80%), supplemented by Cabernet Franc (20%).

93 points James Suckling
93 points Jeb Dunnuck
92 points Decanter

The top wine, the 2018 Chateau D’Issan offers a beautiful, singular bouquet of blackcurrants, new leather, smoked tobacco, scorched earth, and camphor. This 2018 Chateau D’Issan wine carries to a medium to full-bodied, seamless Margaux with wonderful tannins, beautifully integrated acidity, and just a flawlessly balanced, elegant, layered style that’s going to evolve for 20-25 years. It’s one classy 2018 that has loads to love.

A great vintage for the Bordeaux region, 2018 will be remembered at Chateau d’Issan, a magnificent Grand Cru Classé of Margaux. Blending Cabernet Sauvignon (60%) and Merlot (40%), the Chateau d’Issan 2018 seduces with its intense aromas and precision. Each grape variety brings a touch of personality to this wine.

96 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Advocate
96 points Wine Advocate

The 2014 Chateau Dame de Trotte Vieille wine offers an intense, deep and almost purple color. The nose expresses large and generous aromas of black fruits. This Saint-Emilion wine has vivacity, a dense tannic structure and a fine and meticulous grain. This Chateau Dame de Trotte Vieille wine has notes of freshly picked blackberries coupled with a touch of fresh liquorice show the strengh and the structure of this wine. This charming classified growth of Saint-Emilion is one of the great classics of this vintage.

The Dame de Trotte Vieille (La Vieille Dame de Trotte Vieille until 2010), is Château Trotte Vieille 1st GCC Saint-Émilion’s second wine. The first vintage appeared in 2002. Produced then from mainly the young vines (total of 12 ha of vines), this second wine is elaborated with the same care as for a “Grand Vin”. The wine is characterized by a generous fruit brought by the softness of Merlot, associated with a high percentage of Cabernet Franc, adding mineral and aromatic hints to the intense fruit.

The 2016 Chateau De Fieuzal Grand Cru Classe wine displays a purple tinted dense red colour with shiny highlights. This Chateau De Fieuzal wine has aromatic expression is pure and elegant. This Grand Cru Classe wine shows that the richness of the texture will blend in with the wood. On the palate, this Pessac-Leognan Cru Classé from Graves seduces by its finesse and unctuousness. This Chateau de Fieuzal wine is very refined, with exceptional tension on the palate and great concentration. Balanced, elegant and deep, this French red wine still needs to age to express its full potential.

A Grand Cru Classé of Graves, the Chateau de Fieuzal Red wine is produced in the Pessac-Léognan appellation. With an area of 68 hectares, the vineyard planted with red varieties has been converted to Organic Agriculture since 2016. The vines benefit from the characteristic terroir of Pessac-Léognan with gravelly soils.

The 2016 Chateau de Fieuzal Red wine consists of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, and 10% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot.

95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points James Suckling
94 points Wine Spectator