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$167.10
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$163.76
This is from a precocious vintage, with a harvest beginning on September 3, the very day the estate’s longtime...
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$149.99
Quite the bottle here! Spices, such as nutmeg and cinnamon, as well as dried meat and plums with cedar and...
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$481.20
This is a great Yquem, delivering thrilling purity and intensity. The nose offers intense aromas of fresh and dried...
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$54.94
$59.20
Barrel Sample. Ripe, botrytized fruit currently dominates this wine with its rich concentration. It is a full and...
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$50.19
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$49.19
This is a wine that has great potential—you can tell from the firm tannins, tight acidity and closed texture....
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$69.26
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$67.87
Owned by the Tesseron family, this wine is smoky, ripe and full of tannins as well as blackberry fruit. Density gives...
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$49.94
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$48.94
Barrel sample. Ripe and sweet tannins combine easily with this wine's juicy fruit and spice notes. All of the...
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$36.94
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$36.20
Dark cherry, plum, smoke, tobacco and game notes emerge from the 2013 Ormes de Pez. Broad and ample on the palate...
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$34.94
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$34.24
Ormes has managed another good vintage after a run of them. This is a lovely wine and a buy for me. Succulent,...
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$22.80
The aromatics are impressive with blueberry and blackberry character. Hints of hot stone. Medium body, firm and silky...
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$64.95
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$63.65
This is a perfumed, new wood-flavored wine. It has soft tannins and attractive acidity along with a drier core....
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$34.94
This is one of the most immediately appealing 2014s from the appellation thanks to its very ripe black fruits, and...
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$34.94
$36.60
A terrific effort, the 2017 Meyney is a concentrated, nicely structured wine in the vintage that’s going to have a...
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$108.54
$120.60
Less celebrated than 2009 and 2010, and you can feel the fruit is a little less intense through the mid-palate....
750ml - Case of 12
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$34.24
The ever-increasing quality requirement for Château Montrose and La Dame de Montrose, and the increasingly precise...
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$50.79
The 2017 Phélan Ségur is medium to deep garnet-purple colored with pronounced cassis, black raspberries, kirsch and...
750ml - Case of 12
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$49.93
This is phenomenal with superb depth and texture. Full-bodied and very sweet, yet the bright acidity balances the...
750ml - Case of 12
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$43.32
Open and perfumed, the 2017 Tronquoy-Lalande bursts with aromas of sweet blackberries, spices and cherries. Medium to...
2011 2013 2017 France Bordeaux St. Estephe Sauternes 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.
There are few wine regions in the world with a reputation as glowing and well established as that of the Bordeaux, in France. Situated mainly around the Dordogne and Gironde rivers, Bordeaux makes the most of its humid climate and rich, clay and gravel based soils to grow some of the finest examples of red and white grape varietals on earth. Wineries in this region have been in operation for hundreds of years, and have carefully developed the expertise required for the production of carefully balanced and utterly delicious blended red and white wines, alongside some exceptional single variety bottles. Many of the chateaux found in Bordeaux have become household names, due to their prestige and the excellence of their products, grown with love and dedication by heritage wineries in this beautiful and special region.
St Estephe is the largest producer of the Haut-Medoc appellations, situated at its northernmost tip.
St Estephe has traditionally produced robust, solid wines, full of flavour that can need many years to soften and mature. In the last 30 years, a move towards using more of the softer Merlot grape and some changes in the wine-making process have produced some slightly lighter wines that can mature earlier, whilst still maintaining the substance and structure of this wine. However, the wines from this region still retain the big, well-structured and full characteristics of a St Estephe. Although only 5 St Estephe wines were ranked as a Classified growth in the 1855 classification, nowadays there are numerous Cru Bourgeois Chateaux producing superb wine, rivalling the quality of many Medoc classified growths. These wines are often excellent value for the consumer who enjoys a full, rich wine. Those having the patience to wait for these wines to mature are extremely well rewarded.
St Estephe is the closest to the mouth of the river, the Gironde, joining the Atlantic Sea and has less gravel, and more clay, than upstream towards Margaux. This heavier soil drains more slowly, which leads to full, robust wines with a reasonably high acidity. St Estephes excel in hot and dry years when vines in regions with lighter solid may suffer from the excessive heat. St Estephe offers many exciting, stylish and substantial wines, especially from the host of Cru Bourgeois Chateaux which can offer great value.