Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes Dark plum/garnet, this elegant, medium to full-bodied, beguiling, seductive 2008 is a sleeper of the vintage. Round and silky-smooth with lovely black cherry and black currant fruit imbued with touches of smoke, herbs and earth, this relatively evolved effort is best consumed over the next 15-17 years.(Wine Advocate… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes Made in a pretty, elegant, fruity, dark ruby-hued style, the 2002 offers notes of allspice, plums, and resin, followed by attractive medium-bodied black cherry and currant flavors. Not a big wine, it is a well-balanced, elegant claret for enjoying over the next 7-8 years.(Wine Advocate #158 Apr 2005)… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes Like most recent vintages have been, the 2004 La Tour Carnet is a big time sleeper of the vintage. Owned by Bordeaux visionary Bernard Magrez, this chateau is fashioning beautifully structured wines with superb concentration and intensity. The deep ruby/purple-hued 2004 offers up beautiful aromas of flowers, creme… Read More »
Ratings by Robert Parker 95 Tasting Notes The brilliant 2005 Grand-Puy-Lacoste exhibits classic Pauillac aromas and flavors of creme de cassis along with stony/floral notes. Proprietor Xavier Borie has created a wine that should rival the brilliant 1982, 1990, 1996, and 2000. Full-bodied with sweet tannin and superb length (a 40+ second finish), the purity… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes The deep dark ruby-colored 1999 is an excellent du Tertre. It exhibits aromas of herbs, leather, licorice, red and black currants, sweet fruit on the attack, medium body, and a round, charming, pretty finish. Enjoy it now and over the next 10-12 years. (Wine Advocate #140 Apr 2002)… Read More »
VDT – Castilla y Leon Grape 100% Mencia (old wines with an average age of 50 years) Tasting Notes Beautiful straw yellow colour. On the nose fruity, persistent and elegant aromas. -by Official Website . The 2008 Lagar de Robla Premium Mencia spent 18 months in American oak. It is the most complex of these… Read More »
Robert Parker : 86pts Wine Spectator : 87pts AOC – Margaux Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel Grape 32% Cabernet Sauvignon 52% Merlot 16% Petit Verdot 2% Cabernet Franc Tasting Notes Raspberries and red fruit, straightforward/correct in the mouth, powerful, slightly linear, gentlysweet, smooth/velvety, fine fruit in the finish, lovely persistence. From a particularly warm month of July,… Read More »