AOC – Champagne Cuvee des Sacres Grape 60% Chardonnay 40% Pinot Noir Tasting Notes A beautiful bright golden robe A wide nose, notes of viennoiserie, gingerbread and dried fruits. A fresh and molten attack. This vintage reveals a champagne that is both light and expressive from the aromatic point of view. –by Official Website *A… Read More »
AOC – Paulliac Grand Cru Classes – 1eme Ratings Robert Parker 99 Wine Spectator 94 Tasting Notes A beauty, the opaque dense purple-colored 1995 exhibits jammy cassis, vanillin, and minerals in its fragrant but still youthful aromatics. Medium to full-bodied, with exceptional purity, superb concentration, and a long, intense, ripe, 40-second finish, this is a… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 95 Tasting Notes The brilliant, opulent, fleshy 2003 Pichon Lalande (65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot) possesses a high pH of 3.8 as well as 13% alcohol. Reminiscent of the 1982 Pichon Lalande (which never shut down and continues to go from strength to strength), the dense plum/purple-colored… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes Medium ruby with purple nuances, this ripe St.-Julien exhibits delicious, sweet cassis fruit mixed with high quality toasty oak. The wine possesses fat, accessible fruit flavors, attractive glycerin, and no hardness. Neither big nor muscular, it is a medium-bodied, elegant, savory, charming, and delicious effort to be enjoyed… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes This dark ruby-colored, elegant, attractive effort offers spicy new oak, medium body, excellent concentration as well as depth, surprising softness, and early appeal. As with many Medocs, Lagrange??s tannins have become much friendlier after bottling. Anticipated maturity: Now-2015. Last tasted, 3/02.(Bordeaux Book, 4th Edition Jan 2003) By Robert… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker (90-92) Tasting Notes New owner, Syrian Simon Halabi, has instituted a severe selection process (only 35% of the production was utilized), resulting in what may be the finest Cantenac-Brown I have ever tasted. Halabi has given his staff carte blanche in order to get this estate back on track after a… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 93 Tasting Notes As I predicted from barrel, this stunning effort is a wine to buy by the case. Its opaque ruby/purple color is followed by aromas of graphite, barbecue smoke, blackberries and black currants. The full-bodied, textured 2008 Saint-Pierre reveals a skyscraper-like mouthfeel along with tremendous viscosity and unctuosity. One… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes Dark ruby/purple with a pleasant, straightforward nose of plums, flowers, underbrush, and licorice, the medium-bodied 2002 possesses a good attack and mid-palate, but then finishes abruptly. Drink it over the next 6-7 years.(Wine Advocate #158 Apr 2005) By Robert Parker