Chateau Calon Segur 3CC
This classically-styled claret has a nicely notes of roasted herbs, sweet cherries & currants, & loamy earth, medium-weight, light to moderate tannin & an elegant style.
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Chateau Haut Marbuzet CBE
Read moreThe 2003 Haut-Marbuzet is ripe, fleshy, exotic, and seductive. Dark ruby/plum-colored with sweet black cherry fruit, dried herbs, and plenty of toasty oak, this wine has good ripeness and purity.
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Chateau Lafon Rochet 4CC
Read moreA well-made sleeper of the vintage, Lafon Rochet’s 2011 exhibits a dense ruby/plum color in addition to sweet cassis, earth and spice notes, medium body, excellent depth and light to moderate tannin.
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Chateau Lafon Rochet 4CC
Read moreThis wine seems to be one of the few that has not yet recovered from bottling. In a somewhat monolithic, latched-down style, it has plenty of stuffing, lots of structure and an impressive dark ruby/purple color, but it is very hard to coax from the glass. It is a rather classic St.-Estephe made by the Tesseron family.
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Chateau Lafon Rochet 4CC
Read moreA strong effort for this vintage, the 2008 exhibits a dark plum/purple color, plenty of firm, rugged, austere tannins, copious red and black fruits, admirable flavor intensity and medium body.
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Chateau Marquis de Calon
Read moreTough and unbalanced with too much tannin extraction. Flavours are lurking in the background but the palate is tough and drying.
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Chateau Montrose 2CC
Read moreIt is a dark ruby-hued, pleasant, charming, fruit-forward, but superficial effort. There is an absence of tannic strength, and the acidity seems adequate and unobtrusive. This is a pleasant, straightforward, fluid Montrose.
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Chateau Morin Cru B
Read moreDark purple, this wine exhibits vanilla & cherry cream with subtle notes of cedar, the palate has big blackfruit with medium tannin & acidity.
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Chateau Morin Cru B
Read moreDark purple, this wine exhibits vanilla & cherry cream with subtle notes of cedar, the palate has big blackfruit with medium tannin & acidity.
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Chateau Phelan Segur CB
Read moreA major sleeper of the vintage, the 2010 Phelan-Segur has a dense ruby/purple color, ripe mulberry and black currant fruit intermixed with some floral notes, and a hint of subtle oak as well as touches of lavender and licorice. Layered, opulent, ripe and fleshy, this beauty should drink nicely for 10-15 years.
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La Dame de Montrose
Read moreA superb second wine, opulent and substantively textured, it shares more in common with a flamboyant. Dense purple, its oodles of fruit, luxurious mouthfeel and terrific finish.
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Les Pagodes de Cos
Read moreThis wine exhibits beautiful, silky tannins as well as sweet, rich mulberry and black currant fruit with hints of spring flowers, licorice and subtle toast. A full-bodied, opulent and -ideal- second wine.
