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750ml
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$426.60
$474.00
The 2008 Angélus offers a still youthful, vibrant color as well as a classic Angélus bouquet of spice box, black...
750ml
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$34.20
12 bottles:
$33.52
Love the nose of crushed berries and slice plums. Full and chewy, with velvety tannins and a long finish. Needs time...
750ml
Bottle:
$131.25
12 bottles:
$128.63
Beautifully concentrated, rich and textured, with just a hint of maturity, the 2008 Château Canon offers classic...
750ml
Bottle:
$77.40
12 bottles:
$72.96
This château is progressing well in raising its quality as this big, chunky wine shows. The fruit has a solid...
750ml - Case of 3
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$109.95
Slightly cooked fruit on the nose, with a toasted oak and meaty character. Full bodied, with round and chewy tannins...
1.5Ltr - Case of 3
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$206.62
The wine is dark, deep, rich and dense. It has just the right wood element, black berry juice and a pure line of...
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$104.12
The wine is dark, deep, rich and dense. It has just the right wood element, black berry juice and a pure line of...
750ml
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$184.95
$205.50
The first vintage made at the new winery, the 2008 Cos d’Estournel is drinking beautifully today, with terrific...
375ml
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$49.83
Very fruity with strawberry and currants on the nose. Full bodied, with silky tannins and a long, fruity finish....
750ml - Case of 12
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$56.70
Barrel sample. Big, ripe and jammy, this is a ripe, soft wine, showing warm black plum and fig flavors. It gives...
750ml
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$233.55
$259.50
This has real depth of flavour, with an extremely good quality, juicy slate and mineral-filled finish. The emphasis,...
750ml
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$129.33
$143.70
A magnificent sleeper of the vintage, the 2008 Duhart Milon is the shrewd consumer’s wine to purchase by the case...
750ml
Bottle:
$153.00
12 bottles:
$144.78
Blackberry and licorice aromas, with full body, very fine tannins and a long finish. Very silky. So much for jammy...
750ml
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$119.34
$132.60
You start to feel the dial turning up the power as this travels through the palate. Even at 10 years old, the tannins...
750ml
Bottle:
$630.63
$700.70
I loved this vintage of Haut Brion en primeur and am so happy that it has more than lived up to expectations now that...
750ml
Bottle:
$130.68
$145.20
A candidate for the -wine of the vintage,- the 2008 Haut-Bailly possesses incredible complexity. Tell-tale notes of...
750ml
Bottle:
$31.41
12 bottles:
$30.78
A delicious sleeper of the vintage, the dense plum-colored 2008 Hortevie offers up scents of herbs, earth, Asian...
750ml
Bottle:
$324.54
$360.60
The 2008 La Mission Haut-Brion has an open, feisty, lively bouquet with blackberry, briary, cedar, black olive and a...
750ml
Bottle:
$1579.23
$1754.70
The 2003 Lafite Rothschild comes as close to perfection as any of the great Lafites made over the past three decades...
750ml
Bottle:
$1026.00
$1140.00
A candidate for the -wine of the vintage,- the 2008 should have been purchased before it began to soar in value...
Port Blend Red Bordeaux Riesling 2003 2008
Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.
Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.
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.
Riesling grapes have been grown in and around central Europe for centuries, and over time, they became the lasting symbol of south Germany's ancient and proud wine culture. Whilst the reputation of German wines abroad has in the past been mixed, the Germans themselves take an enormous amount of pride in their wineries, and Riesling grapes have now spread around the globe, growing anywhere with the correct climate in which they can thrive. Riesling grape varietals generally require much cooler climatic conditions than many other white grapes, and they are generally considered to be a very 'terroir expressive' varietal, meaning that the features and characteristics of the terroir they are grown on comes across in the flavors and aromas in the bottle. It is this important feature which has allowed Riesling wines to be elevated into the category of 'fine' white wines, as the features of the top quality bottles are generally considered to be highly unique and offer much to interest wine enthusiasts.