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The 2020 Beauregard was picked from September 8 at 37hl/ha (winemaker Vincent Priou told me that having been organic...
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A very classical St. Julien that’s got good concentration and real elegance, too. Great black fruits on the nose...
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The Grand Vin 2020 Château Beychevelle is a tiny selection representing just 55% of the total production of the...
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The 2020 Château Calon Ségur is pure gold and another masterpiece from this estate. Harvested all in September and...
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The Grand Vin 2020 Château Cheval Blanc checks in as a blend of 65% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet...
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96-98 The 2021 Cheval Blanc is one of the wines of the vintage. Vertical and aristocratic in bearing, Cheval is just...
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Opulent aromas of plum, blackberry and cassis reveal a still tannic and dense palate: needs five more years to enter...
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92-94 The 2021 Clerc Milon is a success, bursting with aromas of blackberries, cassis and plums mingled with violets,...
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This is a wine that is made to be elegant - the most accessible in the Mouton stable. They have achieved that with an...
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This is very tannic yet polished and firm with currants, bark, and stones. Full-bodied and muscular and linear. Love...
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This is very, very long and intense with velvety tannins and plenty of sweet tobacco, cedar and dark berry aromas and...
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96-98 A candidate for the title of wine of the vintage, the 2021 Haut-Brion unwinds in the glass with aromas of rich...
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Really gorgeous aromatics, so perfumed, acutely aromatic, pristine, clear and precise with tobacco, cocoa, ash and...
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94-97 The top wine, the 2021 Château Léoville Poyferré is a beauty and certainly makes the most of the vintage....
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The 2020 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is a total stunner. For the first time I can remember, Les Carmes Haut-Brion marries...
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Beginning to open magnificently, the still dense purple-colored 2000 reveals a blossoming bouquet of blackberries,...
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Slowly and confidently inching towards its drinking window, but needs another three to five years before it gets...
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A beautifully layered red with blackcurrant, hazelnut and lead-pencil character and fine, velvety tannins....
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94-96 The Grand Vin 2021 Château Lynch-Bages ratchets up everything, offering a rich, powerful, almost full-bodied...
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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.

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.