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Red
750ml
Bottle: $49.94 $54.20
Bright and intensely floral, with a lovely violet aroma and long, rich plum sauce, blackberry and currant notes....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $578.88 $643.20
A longer, slower harvest than 2009, with cooler nights giving a resultantly fresher acidity. Highlighting the serious...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $55.88 $57.20
12 bottles: $54.76
Even better than the 2009, the 2010 Château Barde-Haut offers the same sexy, extroverted style yet has slightly more...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $24.60
12 bottles: $24.11
Château Bertrand-Braneyre was purchased in 1993 by Ludwig Cooreman after a 50-year career in the wine industry in...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $174.95 $187.50
Firm tannins still at 10 years very much showing their quality and flexibility. This is brilliant, cassis, bilberry,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $97.94 $99.60
12 bottles: $95.98
Ripe fruit, pink flowers and cinnamon spice nuances on the nose. Round and bright, chewy, chunky, but restrained too,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $135.63 $150.70
62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc. Still a very youthful and lively Margaux with fine tannins...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $216.45 $237.20
This is an architectural wine, very classical in its structure like so many of the top wines of 2010. It's powered by...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $152.24
Deep garnet in color, the 2010 Canon la Gaffeliere delivers classic plum preserves, boysenberries and cigar box...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $172.80 $192.00
You know you are on the Right Bank limestone plateau with this wine not by the fruit character, which is savoury,...
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Red
3.0Ltr
Bottle: $567.00
One of the finest wines to come from Cantenac Brown for many years, this is powerful and dense, dominated by Cabernet...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $64.95
Deep rich fruit aromatics on the nose, and a lovely plum colour that is holding firm, barely bricking around the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $1290.60 $1434.00
Showing even better than a bottle a few years ago, the 2010 Chateau Cheval Blanc is perfection in a glass and wine...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.79 $36.70
12 bottles: $33.73
Aromas and flavors of orange peel, dried strawberries and hints of coffee. Full and chewy with a good amount of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $352.98 $392.20
Deep garnet in color, the 2010 Cos d'Estournel unfurls slowly, measuredly, releasing delicate notes of dried...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $68.58
Aromas of currants with blueberries and blackberries. Full body, with integrated tannins and a very pretty finish....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.60
12 bottles: $26.98
Deep ruby. Lovely aromas of dark plum, blackcurrant, graphite and black pepper. Then smooth and rich on the palate,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $41.94 $45.80
Very lush and expressive, with caressing plum sauce, mulled blueberry and blackberry fruit and melted licorice and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $89.88
A sumptuous reflection of bright red and black, somewhat jammy fruit with hints of dark chocolate and forest-floor....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.00
12 bottles: $17.64

Nebbiolo Red Bordeaux 2002 2010

The Nebbiolo grape varietal is widely understood to be the fruit responsible for Italy's finest aged wines. However, its popularity and reliability as a grape which gives out outstanding flavors and aromas has led it to be planted in many countries around the world, with much success. These purple grapes are distinguishable by the fact that they take on a milky dust as they begin to reach maturity, leading many to claim that this is the reason for their unusual name, which means 'fog' in Italian. Nebbiolo grapes produce wines which have a wide range of beautiful and fascinating flavors, the most common of which are rich, dark and complex, such as violet, truffle, tobacco and prunes. They are generally aged for many years to balance out their characteristics, as their natural tannin levels tend to be very high.

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.