Grape 100% Shiraz Ratings James Halliday 90Tasting Notes Deep red in colour, with bright blackberry/liquorice fruit, spice and pepper notes with integrated vanillin oak. The palate is medium weight with complex flavours of dark berry and earth giving a long peppery finish with firm tannins. Particularly well balanced and perfumed typical of the 2006 vintage.… Read More »
AOC – Pomerol Grape 80% Merlot 20% Cabernet Franc Ratings & Awards Robert Parker 83 ~85 Rated top 40 in Pomerol by various wine critics. Tasting Notes Licorice and berry aromas and flavors follow through to a medium body, with chewy tannins and a medium finish. Turns austere on the finish. Little too much. –by… Read More »
AOC – Paulliac Grand Cru Classes – 1 eme Ratings Robert Parker 98+ Wine Spectator 94 Tasting Notes A sensational effort, the 2006 Mouton Rothschild exhibits an opaque purple color as well as a classic Mouton perfume of creme de cassis, flowers, blueberries, and only a hint of oak. Dalhuin told me that in whisky… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 96 Tasting Notes Sitting next to my former colleague, Pierre Antoine Rovani, at one of the tastings, he commented that he didn’t detect at all, and a subsequent bottle at another tasting did not reveal it either. I do think there is a hint of bay leaf and a meatiness to… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 92 Tasting Notes Typically extracted and powerful (which is atypical in a vintage such as 2008), this offering may lack charm, but it is ????locked and loaded?? with plenty of background oak, huge black cherry and black currant fruit, medium to full body and a boatload of tannin. Forget it for… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes This property continues to reassert itself, with a renewed commitment to quality. The 1996 d’Issan has turned out beautifully in bottle. It exhibits a dark ruby/purple color as well as an elegant, floral, blackberry, and smoky-scented nose. The wine is medium-bodied and complex in the mouth, with subtle… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes Although one of the appellation??s more tannic 2004s, the tannin is beautifully balanced by sweet black currant fruit, spring flower, camphor, and licorice notes. This impeccably well-made, medium-bodied Margaux reveals a lovely integration of acidity, tannin, and wood. Give it 2-3 years of bottle age, and drink it… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker78 Tasting Notes This estate has been under the same ownership as Labegorce and Labegorce-Zede since 2006, but I do not believe the new owners were in charge of the viticultural management or winemaking in this vintage (the other two estates produced far superior wines in this vintage). This is a low-keyed,… Read More »