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93-95 Barrel sample. This is a smooth, rich wine that's intensely concentrated and packed with great black-currant...
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Made in a more flamboyant, lifted style than the 2016, the 2015 Château Beychevelle offers a beautiful, medium to...
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Red
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Medium brick colored, the 1999 Ducru-Beaucaillou needs a little swirling to release the tightly coiled notions of...
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A youthful, unevolved 2018 with lots of up-front blue and black fruits as well as cedary herbs, violets, and scorched...
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This estate has been on fire in recent vintages, and the 2018 Château Léoville Barton is up there with the best of...
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I'm not sure you need me to recap the weather conditions in 2005 as it's such a famous, and relatively recent, year....
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Red
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Always a more understated style, and this is benchmark stuff from Talbot. If you had to close your eyes and say what...
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Red
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The smoky oak, full body and chunky tannins make a bold statement; indeed, the wine has plenty of flesh and packs a...
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Red
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This wine, from a selected parcel of the Ducru-Beaucaillou vineyard, is packed with both tannins and great fruit. Its...
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Red
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A beautiful St.-Julien that’s got everything you expect from this appellation, from the elegant, moderately dry...
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Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2017 La Croix Ducru-Beaucaillou Cuvée Colbert springs from the glass with...
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Less intense than the 2010 vintage, but there are still rich dark cassis and bilberry notes on offer, with blonde...
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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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#58 Top 100. I was able to taste the 2016 Château Beychevelle on two occasions, and it showed beautifully both...
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#58 Top 100. I was able to taste the 2016 Château Beychevelle on two occasions, and it showed beautifully both...
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Bottle: $242.95
The 2017 Chateau Beychevelle is another beautiful wine from this estate, which is being run with incredible talent...
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The 2017 Chateau Beychevelle is another beautiful wine from this estate, which is being run with incredible talent...
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The flagship 2018 Château Beychevelle is a more serious, concentrated, focused wine that still has that classic...
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Gorgeous aromas of currants, crushed stones, blackberries and flowers. Full-bodied with refined tannins that are long...
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Red Bordeaux France Bordeaux St. Julien 1.5Ltr

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.

Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and owes its expertise to the Romans, it comes as little surprise that this most highly esteemed of the Old World wine countries continues to impress and enchant both novices and experts to this day. Despite the rise in quality of wines from neighboring European countries, not to mention the New World, the French wine industry continues to boom, with up to eight billion bottles being produced in recent years. However, France prides itself on always putting quality before quantity, and the wide range in fine produce is a testament to the dedication and knowledge of the wineries across the country. Indeed, from rich and complex reds to light and aromatic white wines, French wines are as varied and interesting as they are enjoyable to drink, making this country a firm favorite for wine lovers across the globe.

There are few wine regions in the world with a reputation as glowing and well established as that of the Bordeaux, in France. Situated mainly around the Dordogne and Gironde rivers, Bordeaux makes the most of its humid climate and rich, clay and gravel based soils to grow some of the finest examples of red and white grape varietals on earth. Wineries in this region have been in operation for hundreds of years, and have carefully developed the expertise required for the production of carefully balanced and utterly delicious blended red and white wines, alongside some exceptional single variety bottles. Many of the chateaux found in Bordeaux have become household names, due to their prestige and the excellence of their products, grown with love and dedication by heritage wineries in this beautiful and special region.

Saint-Julien-Beychevelle is a commune on the left bank of the Garonne estuary in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in south-western France, that produces red wine.

The village lies 15 km (9.3 mi) northwest of Bordeaux and is considered by some to be the most underrated of the four major wine growing appellations of the Medoc.

The 9 km2 (3.5 sq mi) of vineyards around the villages of St-Julien and Beychevelle produce wine of relative lightness and balance. Its strength stems from the quality of its soil – the characteristic layer of gravel forcing the roots of the vine to go to extra depth to reach its nutrients, as well as retaining additional heat to see it through the cooling winds from the Atlantic away to the west.

St-Julien contains no First Growths but it does have estates ranked as Second, Third and Fourth Growths in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.