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Grape100% Shiraz

AOC – Margaux Grand Cru Classe – 3eme Grape Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot , Petit Verdot Ratings Robert Parker 90Wine Spectator 94 Tasting NotesThe inky color has purple highlights.Aromatically it explodes with blackcurrants, blackberries, figs, prunes, gingerbread, sandalwood, mint, cedar, leather, and truffle?-The attack shows a flamboyantly gothic architecture: opulent fruit, an elegant tannic structure, ideal… Read More »

Grape100% ShirazRatings & Awards/ Gold Medal – Challenge du Vin France 2009/ Rated 4 stars by WINESTATE/ Silver Medal – Finger Lake International Wine Competition 2009Tasting NotesColour: Intense red purpleBouquet: Huge lifted fresh flavours of spice and pepper with ripe cherry berry fruit balance with cedar oakPalate: Big long intense mouthful of ripe berry fruit,… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes This hedonistic, luscious, sexy, opulently-textured Pichon-Lalande is a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot, and 5% Cabernet Franc. Exhibiting a dark ruby color with purple nuances, it is open-knit, with plentiful quantities of roasted herbs, smoky oak, vanillin, and creamy black currant fruit. A… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 94? Tasting Notes Another prodigious, but brutally tannic, offering from the affable Anthony Barton, the inky/blue/black-hued 2005 Leoville Barton exhibits a sensational perfume of charcoal, burning embers, underbrush, cedar, creme de cassis, and subtle toasty oak. Painfully concentrated (much like the 2000 was at the same stage), with full body, admirable… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes Notes of tapenade, red currant, earth, and underbrush jump from the glass of this moderately dark ruby-colored wine. Elegant, medium-bodied restrained, with good acidity, this wine should develop quickly and drink well for 10-15 years. Anticipated maturity: 2005-2014. Last tasted, 3/02.(Bordeaux Book, 4th Edition Jan 2003) By Robert… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 94 Tasting Notes Now consistently one of the great wines of the appellation, d??Issan has produced a dense purple-colored wine with a beautiful set of aromatics offering a smorgasbord of aromas such as perfumed flowers, incense, graphite, licorice, blueberry, and black currant. The wine is seamlessly constructed, like a fine dress… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes Among the finest Cantenac-Browns of the last three decades, the saturated purple-colored 2000 is a sleeper of the vintage. Loaded with chocolatey black currants intermixed with sweet earth, cedar, and spice box, it exhibits medium to full body, surprisingly ripe tannin for a wine from this estate, a… Read More »

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Ratings By Robert Parker 89 Tasting Notes A very good effort for the vintage, this inky ruby/purple-colored 2002 boasts sweet, dusty black cherry fruit intermixed with hints of forest floor and barnyard. Medium to full-bodied, chewy, with high tannins and classic structure, this wine, like most St.-Pierres, will require discipline. Anticipated maturity:2010-2023.(Wine Advocate #158 Apr… Read More »