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Red
750ml
Bottle: $151.80
12 bottles: $148.76
The 2007 Beychevelle has an attractive nose, fresher and more complex than others in this flight of off-vintages....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $192.24 $213.60
An attractive, medium-bodied St.-Julien with plenty of blueberry character, plus touches of cassis and mint and a...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $316.20
6 bottles: $312.00
93-95 Barrel sample. This is a smooth, rich wine that's intensely concentrated and packed with great black-currant...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $154.94 $157.20
93-95 Barrel sample. This is a smooth, rich wine that's intensely concentrated and packed with great black-currant...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $55.20
12 bottles: $54.10
Ripe, fresh and decidedly forward in style, with a modestly tarry edge supporting the juicy blackberry, loganberry...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $70.56 $78.40
Barrel sample. Full of ripe Cabernet tannins, this is a structured wine that's chunky in character. It elegantly...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $235.95
12 bottles: $231.23
A difficult year in theory but, as with many of the good names in Bordeaux, it is tasting excellently right now and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $438.96 $472.00
Probably one of my most consistent 100 pointers, I've been lucky enough to taste through close to a case of this...
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Red
3.0Ltr
Bottle: $495.00
One of the best value St-Juliens, this is an estate that was beginning to come in to its own around 2009, and it...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $58.24
12 bottles: $57.08
Barrel sample. Solid and concentrated, this wine certainly shows great dryness as well as fruit. It has power and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $108.63 $120.70
This is a good Lagrange, showing well now with no need to wait too long. It perhaps doesn't have the concentration...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $94.94 $103.20
Very dense and still rather reserved, with dark blueberry, blackberry and fig notes rolled together, framed by...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $170.55 $189.50
A major success of the vintage. The wine exhibits extreme richness of the fruit, with all its sweet blackberry...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $101.37
12 bottles: $99.34
The second vintage of Le Petit Lion, and the first where the vintage really was good enough to showcase its...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $247.32 $274.80
#38 TOP 100 CELLAR SELECTIONS 2015. This combines considerable power and concentration with rich, impressive fruits....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $297.18 $330.20
The greatest wine I’ve ever tasted from this address is the 2009 Léoville Poyferré, which is a step up over both...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $125.85
On the nose and palate this red suggests red and black plums with cedar notes and hints of cloves. Full body, firm...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $137.95 $139.50
Aromas of cocoa powder and currants, follow through to a full body, with ultra-fine tannins and a juicy, berry and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $99.94
12 bottles: $97.94
Barrel sample. This wine is heavily influenced by ample new-wood aging. It's deliciously juicy with black currant and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $65.90 $69.50
Firm and tannic, this dark berry-flavored wine comes from a specific parcel in the Léoville las Cases vineyard. It's...
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Red Bordeaux 2007 2009 2012 France Bordeaux St. Julien

There are few regions in the world with stricter regulations in regards to wine production and grape varietals than those found in Bordeaux, France. Here, in the home of the world's finest wines, the type and quality of grapes used is of utmost importance, and the legendary wineries which work on the banks of the Gironde river have mastered the careful art of juice blending to find the perfect balance for their produce. Whilst there are six 'official' Bordeaux grapes, the two key varietals for almost every fine Bordeaux wine are Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and with good reason. Whilst Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are renowned for their acidity and astringency, strong fruit and spice flavors and full body, Merlot grapes are notably rounded, soft, fleshy and lighter on tannin. The combination of these two varietals, along with a small percentage of (commonly) Petit Verdot or Cabernet Franc, is the perfect balancing act – the two grape varietals cancel out each others weaker points, and accentuate all that is good about the other.

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.

Saint-Julien-Beychevelle is a commune on the left bank of the Garonne estuary in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in south-western France, that produces red wine.

The village lies 15 km (9.3 mi) northwest of Bordeaux and is considered by some to be the most underrated of the four major wine growing appellations of the Medoc.

The 9 km2 (3.5 sq mi) of vineyards around the villages of St-Julien and Beychevelle produce wine of relative lightness and balance. Its strength stems from the quality of its soil – the characteristic layer of gravel forcing the roots of the vine to go to extra depth to reach its nutrients, as well as retaining additional heat to see it through the cooling winds from the Atlantic away to the west.

St-Julien contains no First Growths but it does have estates ranked as Second, Third and Fourth Growths in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.