Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes This dark ruby/plum-colored, easy-going Margaux reveals a touch of herbaceousness along with too much new oak on the nose. Light to medium-bodied, well-balanced, and silky, it should be drunk over the next 6-7 years.(Wine Advocate #153 Jun 2004) By Robert Parker
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes The only vintage after 1996 that merits attention from serious wine lovers, the 2000 Marquis de Terme has a dense, murky ruby/purple color and a sweet nose of berry fruit, earth, licorice, and new oak. Medium-weight with good concentration and purity, it is much more developed than most… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 89+ Tasting Notes A very tannic, structured wine with an opaque purple color and a sweet creme de cassis nose intermixed with damp earth, vanilla, and licorice, this relatively massive wine has mouth-searing levels of tannin, medium body, and a very backward style that will require considerable patience from its buyers.… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes This wine has completely shut down after being in bottle for several years. It still has an impressively saturated ruby/purple color and a nose of sweet berry fruit intermixed with licorice, tapenade, mineral, and herbs. The wine is deep, medium-bodied, with excellent purity and some relatively elevated and… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes A sleeper of the vintage, this is a pure sexpot of a Margaux with lots of spring flower, jammy black cherry, black currant, graphite and smoky characteristics. With loads of fruit, a round, opulent texture and outstanding purity, this up-front, evolved, classic, medium to full-bodied Margaux can be… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes An attractive effort, this 2007 offers notes of black raspberries, black cherries, incense, licorice, and roasted herbs, a dark purple color, sweet, medium-bodied flavors, lots of spice, and velvety tannin. Drink it over the next decade.(Wine Advocate #188 Apr 2010) By Robert Parker
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes With the highly respected Right Bank consultant Stephane Derenoncourt providing advice, Prieure-Lichine has moved to a complete, savory, and for lack of a better description, broad, lush, sexy style. This has always been a wine that was drinkable at an early age, but I think they are building… Read More »