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Bottle: $21.76
Very expressive nose of red fruits, spices, vanilla, the palate, the tannins are mellow, harmonious round with notes...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $41.74
12 bottles: $40.91
Very aromatic and bright with currants and orange peel on the nose. Full body, velvety tannins and a delicious...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.03
12 bottles: $15.71
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $486.00 $540.00
Initially the wine is all firm tannins, but then there is a pure line of fresh black fruits that comes through, with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $384.48 $427.20
Effectively half-and-half Merlot and Cabernet Franc, this is a tremendous wine. With very fine tannins, spice from a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $689.95 $763.50
This grand wine is stylish and elegant. It is also powerful and dense with dark tannins and great concentration. It...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $75.95 $82.40
Barrel Sample. While this powerful wine does have considerable over-extraction, it also has swathes of ripe berry...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $89.95 $93.60
12 bottles: $88.92
While I wasn’t able to taste the 2015, the 2014 Château Beausejour Duffau-Lagarrosse is fabulous stuff and well...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $100.00
12 bottles: $98.00
Taking advantage of the delicious fruit of 2006, this Branaire-Ducru shows a charming side. It brings out ripe, spicy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $57.61
Spicy, rich and full of ripe fruit, this wine has great potential. It is structured and dense while bringing out a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $77.95
This is a complete wine, full of both tannins and great swathes of ripe fruit. It has a serious side as well in its...
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $219.78
Not a wine that will please everyone. This has the austerity and backward thinking of 2006 mixed with the sleek fruit...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $163.83
12 bottles: $160.55
This is real powerful and sexy with a voluptuous style of ripe fruit, mushrooms and wet earth. Leafy. Full and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $99.90 $101.50
12 bottles: $95.29
Barrel Sample. Superripe fruits dominate this wine. It is generous and full in the mouth, the tannins and structure...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $111.78 $124.20
Intense aromas of minerals, chalk, bright cherries and stones. Full-bodied, tight and silky; very linear. Like a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $47.25
12 bottles: $46.31
I like the floral character, which highlights the aromas of currants and berries. Full body and a firm and tight...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.25
12 bottles: $52.19
The 2014 Carbonnieux is not showing as I expected although I tasted another bottle soon afterwards in Bordeaux. This...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $714.95 $786.20
Barrel Sample Dark chocolate and mocha flavors, very dark and intense, this is a big, concentrated wine, flavored...
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750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $831.00
This has dreamy aromas already, with notes of Lapsang souchong tea, smoldering cigar and cold charcoal wafting up...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $41.00
6 bottles: $40.18
This wine has a pretty purity of fruit and spices with hints of chocolate. Medium to full body and a fresh finish....
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Chenin Blanc Red Bordeaux 2006 2014 750ml

Originating in France yet now grown in many parts of the New World, Chenin Blanc is one of the most versatile and highly regarded white wine grape varietals on earth. These green skinned grapes hold a relatively high acid content, and as such can be used for making still white wines of exceptional quality, as well as superb sparkling wines (such as the Crémant wines of the Loire Valley) and extremely aromatic dessert wines. Their natural transparency means that they are a fine grape for expressing their terroir in the bottle, and winemakers often experiment with this varietal to coax unusual and intense flavors from the grapes, such as allowing the development of noble rot on the fruit in order to make sweet and viscous wines of a unique character.

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.