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This is crazy. The nose is so unique with the iodine, stones and currant aromas with wet earth and mushroom. Aromas...
750ml
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$1324.98
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Inky colour, more so than in many years of Lafite, imprinted by the vintage. It is at this level, in these type of...
3.0Ltr
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$495.00
Deep garnet in color, the 2010 Lafon-Rochet comes bounding out of the glass with sit-up-and-beg notes of creme de...
750ml
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$105.93
$117.70
Loads of tension and form. It can be cellared for decades, but it’s balanced and beautiful already. Lots of...
750ml
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$59.94
$61.20
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$58.74
Very spicy and intense, with dark berries and sweet tobacco. Full and velvety. Very long and intense.
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$130.00
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$99.00
Lascombes in 2010 has exuberance and precision and confidence, and a sense of fun. At the 10 year mark the power of...
750ml
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$1599.48
$1777.20
I get the same peony and violet aromatics here as I did in Forts de Latour. This is powerful, muscular, not even...
750ml
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$205.20
This is a magnificently solid wine, initially even a bit severe. At this young stage, the tannins dominate, but it's...
750ml
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$343.08
$381.20
Layered, textured, deep, cigar box, cassis and earth, managing to simultaneously stretch out, and burrow down. The...
750ml
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$222.20
The wine out distances both Leoville Las Cases and Leoville Barton, but all three of them are compelling efforts....
375ml
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$41.10
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$40.28
Wonderful aromas of currants and blackberries with hints of spices. Full body, with fabulous tannins and a long and...
750ml
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$86.50
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$84.77
Wonderful aromas of currants and blackberries with hints of spices. Full body, with fabulous tannins and a long and...
1.5Ltr
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$528.67
$556.50
A wine with great beauty and finesse. Such elegance and ethereal quality for this estate. Full body, with ultra-fine...
375ml
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$128.95
$139.50
A wine with great beauty and finesse. Such elegance and ethereal quality for this estate. Full body, with ultra-fine...
750ml
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$69.94
$71.10
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$68.54
One of the chateaus owned by négociant Borie-Manoux, Lynch-Moussas has produced a fine, stylish 2010, which is...
750ml
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$118.90
$132.10
A wine with beautiful strawberry and chocolate with hints of pie crust. It's full-bodied with super integrated...
750ml
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$899.64
$999.60
This was phenomenal from barrel and remains so. The aromas are spellbinding. It smells like a bouquet of pink roses...
750ml
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$239.94
$265.50
This the greatest Pavillon Rouge ever made. Aromas of flowers, smoke, currants and raspberries follow through to a...
750ml
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$78.95
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$77.37
A wine with a pretty balance of spices, blackberry, mint, and ripe fruit follow through to a full body, fine tannins...
Merlot Red Bordeaux 2002 2010
With its dark blue colored fruits and high juice content, Merlot varietal grapes have long been a favorite of wine producers around the globe, with it being found in vineyards across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the New World. One of the distinguishing features of Merlot grapes is the fact that they have a relatively low tannin content and an exceptionally soft and fleshy character, meaning they are capable of producing incredibly rounded and mellow wines. This mellowness is balanced with plenty of flavor, however, and has made Merlot grapes the varietal of choice for softening other, more astringent and tannin-heavy wines, often resulting in truly exceptional produce. Merlot is regarded as one of the key 'Bordeaux' varietals for precisely this reason; when combined with the drier Cabernet Sauvignon, it is capable of blending beautifully to produce some of the finest wines available in the world.
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.