Ratings By Robert Parker 97 Tasting Notes The 2005 Ducru Beaucaillou is a 10,000-case blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon and 33% Merlot (they used to produce 18,000-20,000 cases). It 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… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes The dark ruby-colored 1999 Cos is a supremely elegant effort. The wine offers notes of dried Provencal herbs, smoke, licorice, black cherries, and cassis. This medium to full-bodied St.-Estephe is cerebral, intellectual, and refined, but lacking soul and hedonism. Anticipated maturity: 2004-2018.(Wine Advocate #140 Apr 2002) By Robert… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 91 Tasting Notes A brilliant effort for the vintage, the 2007 Lascombes is an impressive, larger-scaled wine with beautiful notes of incense, spring flowers, blackberries, cassis, and subtle spicy oak. Full-bodied, rich, and concentrated, with no hard edges, this voluptuously textured Margaux can be drunk now or cellared for 15 years.(Wine… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes A deep ruby/purple color is followed by classic notes of black currants, cedar, tobacco leaf, and spice box. Displaying better integration of new oak as well as more elegance and finesse than usual (Lagrange tends to be blatantly oaky in many vintages), it possesses sweet fruit, pretty flavors,… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes The product of a very hot, dry summer, but with rain during the critical month of September, this structured, concentrated wine seems to be very closed down and dense, with a healthy garnet/purple color and a big nose of mineral, underbrush, compost, and black fruits. Relatively powerful, but… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes At present, this structured, backward 2005 is dominated by the vintage??s substantial tannins. It exhibits a saturated ruby/purple color, a reticent but promising bouquet of sweet black fruits intermixed with weedy tobacco, licorice, and leather characteristics. Medium-bodied and powerful, with excruciating tannin, but promising potential, patience is most… Read More »
Ratings by Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes An evolved, already complex nose of cedarwood, roasted herbs, black currants, and plums jumps from the glass of the elegant, mid-weight, somewhat superficial, but very endearing 2007 Grand Puy Ducasse. Drink it over the next 7-8 years.(Wine Advocate #188 Apr 2010) By Robert Parker