Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes This opaque purple-colored, muscular, full-bodied, classically made St.-Julien displays impressive concentration, chewy, highly-extracted flavors of black fruits, iron, earth, and spicy wood, and a powerful mouth-feel. A pure, uncompromising, traditionally-styled wine, it is to be admired for its authenticity, class, and quality. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2035. Readers seeking classic,… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes This 1999??s aggressive new oak seems excessive for the amount of depth and fruit it possesses. There is excellent purity as well as texture, but the oak dominates at present, causing the tannin to taste dry and astringent. Nevertheless, it has the potential to become an elegant, mid-sized… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes This wine has turned out to be more impressive from bottle than it was in cask. It is a charming, intensely-scented wine with a tell-tale olive, earth, grilled beef, and black currant-scented bouquet soaring from the glass. Medium to full-bodied, with low acidity, and round, luscious, richly fruity… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90+ Tasting Notes A sleeper of the vintage, the dense blue/purple-colored 2003 Lafon-Rochet exhibits plenty of blackberry, cassis and graphite along with a touch of toasty new oak. The wine is more backward than expected, but it possesses full-bodied, concentrated flavors as well as good elegance, purity, and overall equilibrium. This… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker (84) Tasting Notes Notes of herbs, tobacco, and currant fruit mixed with damp soil aromas can be found in this traditionally made Pauillac. With medium body, grip, and tannin, it is more evolved and softer than expected for this generally age-worthy wine. Give it 1-2 years of cellaring, and consume it… Read More »
Ratings by Robert Parker 91 Tasting Notes Another ????best ever?? performance, the Grand-Puy-Ducasse is made in a charming style for a 2005 Pauillac. This deep ruby-hued, very concentrated, precocious, showy effort displays copious quantities of sweet oak intermixed with black cherries, black currants, velvety tannins, medium body, and loads of fruit. It can be drunk… Read More »