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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: $174.95 $184.20
12 bottles: $173.85
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: $134.55 $149.50
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: $210.00
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
750ml
Bottle: $68.95
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: $173.88 $193.20
The definition of poised and confident, this has pretty much consistently delivered since the very first taste during...
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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: $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: $84.93 $88.20
12 bottles: $83.23
The 2010 du Tertre soars out of the glass with blackberry, sous-bois and light mint aromas. Good definition here and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $390.78 $434.20
While I loved the 2010 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou on release I’ve always preferred the 2009. However, the 2010...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $143.28 $159.20
Gravel over limestone, similar to Château Lafite Rothschild and under the same ownership. Cooler northern exposure...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $83.94 $93.00
An ugly duckling at en primeur time, this has since blossomed into a wine that is structured, tending toward...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $333.18 $370.20
Intense aromas of wet earth, leaves, sweet berries and cinnamon follow through to a full body, velvety and dense...
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Gamay Red Bordeaux 2002 2010 12 Ship Free Items

The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.


The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.

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.