Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes For this vintage, this wine seems soft and evolved. Medium to dark ruby with an attractive, relatively mature nose of dried herbs, cedar, black cherries and currants, it is medium-bodied, cleanly made, and best drunk over the next 7-8 years.(Wine Advocate #158 Apr 2005) By Robert Parker

Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes From a property that seems to be improving, the dark ruby/purple-tinged 2001 offers copious amounts of cedar, spice box, black currant, and forest floor scents in its distinctively earthy personality. While delicate, it reveals cunning power underneath the subtle flavors. Medium-bodied and moderately tannic, it should be at… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes The finest wine I have tasted from this estate in over four decades, this dense purple-colored 2000 offers up a sweet perfume of black cherry liqueur intermixed with cassis, graphite, licorice, and incense. Full-bodied and concentrated, with high tannin and loads of extract, this is a serious, broodingly… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes Licorice, black fruit, herb, earth, and wood aromas emerge from this moderately perfumed, medium-bodied Margaux. The wine displays fruit and ripeness as well as some tannin. It is a good effort from this under performer, who appears to be getting its act together. Drink it over the next… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 85 Tasting Notes This elegant, soft, fresh, light to medium-bodied, pleasant wine lacks substance as well as depth. It will provide superficial charm over the next 5-7 years. (Wine Advocate #134 Apr 2001) By Robert Parker

Ratings By Robert Parker 83 Tasting Notes A soft, light to medium-bodied effort with evidence of dilution, the 1997’s pleasant black currant fruit provides accessibility and an easy to understand style. Consume it over the next 4-5 years.(Wine Advocate #128 Apr 2000) By Robert Parker

Ratings By Robert Parker 75 Tasting Notes The shallow, medium ruby-colored 1996 reveals earthy overtones, little depth, an attenuated, compressed personality, and an herbaceous finish. It will not improve. Anticipated maturity: now-2006.(Wine Advocate #122 Apr 1999) By Robert Parker

Ratings By Robert Parker (85-87) Tasting Notes After years of mostly mediocre performances, this property has begun to show signs of life with a very good 1995. The dark purple-colored 1995 is one of the finest wines made at Rauzan-Gassies in decades. It exhibits plenty of pure, ripe, blackcurrant fruit, and high quality toasty oak.… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 90+ Tasting Notes The 2008 Rauzan-Segla (62% Cabernet Sauvignon and 38% Merlot) was made from 45% of the production. It is a beautiful wine in this vintage, not nearly as powerful and structured as the 2010, but it has complex notes of sweet red and black fruits, unsmoked cigar tobacco, spice… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 89+ Tasting Notes This substantial 2007 (a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot) exhibits a deep ruby/purple-tinged color along with a big, sweet kiss of licorice, forest floor, tobacco leaf, black currants, and cherries. It possesses a lovely texture, a round, ample mouthfeel, sweet tannin, and low acidity. It… Read More »