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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $59.94 $64.90
#4 Top100, 2008. Delivers lots of botrytis spice, with lemon tart and cooked apple. Full-bodied, with loads of cream...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $40.60
12 bottles: $39.79
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $728.91 $809.90
The 2005 La Mission Haut-Brion is pure perfection. It has an absolutely extraordinary nose of sweet blackberries,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $1080.00 $1200.00
An incredible nose, so subtle with red fruits, mint, minerals, and all sorts of flowers give way to Cohiba cigar...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $121.41 $134.90
Stunning now. A fabulous nose of currants, crushed raspberry and blackberry. Full- bodied, with perfectly integrated...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $123.48 $132.77
Dark in color, with an impressive nose of licorice, toasty oak, chocolate and blackberry. Full-bodied, with silky...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $1260.81 $1400.90
The 2005 Latour was mind-blowingly profound in two recent tastings for this report. Deep and sensual to the core, the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $197.01 $218.90
Power and elegance merge effortlessly in this superb wine. Its pure black currant fruit is tightly coiled, supported...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $387.81 $430.90
A stunningly complex and complete nose of flowers, dark fruits, and minerals. Very perfumed and subtle at the same...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $172.71 $191.90
Extremely lively palate, really quite bright, bold, powerful, chewy tannins fill the mouth but you get such power and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $253.80 $282.00
A meaty and decadent Lynch with very ripe currant aromas on the nose. Full body, velvety-textured tannins and a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $78.90
12 bottles: $77.32
Medium ruby. Cassis, chocolate, tar and menthol on the nose. A bit reduced in the mouth, but fat and full for this...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $1078.11 $1197.90
The nose on this seems more concentrated than the 2000, and the purity of fruit is stunning, with blueberries,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $279.95 $310.90
The 2005 Pavillon Rouge is in a beautiful spot right now where it is just beginning to show signs of aromatic...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $265.41 $294.90
The 2005 Montrose continues to show brilliantly, unwinding in the glass with notes of blackcurrant, red fruits, loamy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $896.40 $996.00
Mouton was voluptuous and immediately appealing, with spicy ripe cassis and plum fruit that poured from the glass,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $139.95
12 bottles: $137.15
A complete and sexy wine with very polished and refined tannins yet there’s an energy and posture that gives the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $43.62
12 bottles: $42.75
A seductive style of wine in 2005, this Peyrabon has a deep ruby/purple color and round, juicy blackcurrant and black...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $270.54 $300.60
The 2005 Pichon-Longueville Baron is another concentrated, full-bodied 2005 that’s starting to drink well. Cassis,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $217.26 $241.40
Always showing well, this bottle of 2005 Château Pontet Canet was just about pure perfection in a glass. Still...
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2005 France 750ml

Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and owes its expertise to the Romans, it comes as little surprise that this most highly esteemed of the Old World wine countries continues to impress and enchant both novices and experts to this day. Despite the rise in quality of wines from neighboring European countries, not to mention the New World, the French wine industry continues to boom, with up to eight billion bottles being produced in recent years. However, France prides itself on always putting quality before quantity, and the wide range in fine produce is a testament to the dedication and knowledge of the wineries across the country. Indeed, from rich and complex reds to light and aromatic white wines, French wines are as varied and interesting as they are enjoyable to drink, making this country a firm favorite for wine lovers across the globe.