Ratings By Robert Parker 93 Tasting Notes Along with Leoville Las Cases and a few others, this is among the stars of the appellation. Made in a more floral, supple, Margaux-like style, the deep ruby/purple-hued 2004 Leoville Poyferre exhibits sweet, broad flavors, and plenty of tannin lurking beneath the surface. However, the abundant cherry, black… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 83 Tasting Notes The light-styled 1998 Lascombes offers sweet cherry fruit intermixed with cedar, spice box, and dried herbs. Although it lacks depth, this offering is symmetrical, well-balanced, and elegant. Enjoy it over the next 10-12 years.(Wine Advocate #134 Apr 2001) By Robert Parker
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 »
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 »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes One of the sleepers of the 1996 vintage, Lafon-Rochet has turned out an atypically powerful, rich, and concentrated wine bursting with black currant fruit. The opaque purple color gives way to a medium to full-bodied, tannic, backward wine with terrific purity, a sweet, concentrated mid-palate, and a long,… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90+ Tasting Notes Backward and powerful for the vintage, this blue/purple-colored 2004 exhibits classic creme de cassis, smoke, incense, and spring flower characteristics. Medium to full-bodied, dense, and excruciatingly tannic, this impressively endowed Pauillac is built for the long haul. However, patience will be required. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2025+.(Wine Advocate #171 Jun… Read More »
Ratings by Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes Black fruits dominate the moderately intense nose of this saturated ruby/purple-colored 1998. Medium-bodied, savory, and user-friendly, it suffers only from a lack of complexity. Drink it over the next 10-12 years. (Wine Advocate #134 Apr 2001) By Robert Parker
Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes Herbaceous, sweet, cedary notes intermixed with black currant and barrique smells as well as some autumnal, foresty notes are followed by a medium-bodied wine that tails off in the mouth and finishes with some aggressive tannins.(Wine Advocate #181 Feb 2009) By Robert Parker