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Red
750ml
Bottle: $465.21 $516.90
The 2008 Angélus offers a still youthful, vibrant color as well as a classic Angélus bouquet of spice box, black...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $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...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $98.95 $103.20
Solid wine, dark, firm and powerful. The black currant fruits shear through the tannic texture, giving a wine that is...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $119.95
12 bottles: $117.55
Beautifully concentrated, rich and textured, with just a hint of maturity, the 2008 Château Canon offers classic...
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Red
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...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $183.60 $204.00
The first vintage made at the new winery, the 2008 Cos d’Estournel is drinking beautifully today, with terrific...
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Red
375ml
Bottle: $48.38
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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Red
750ml
Bottle: $56.70 $63.00
Barrel sample. Big, ripe and jammy, this is a ripe, soft wine, showing warm black plum and fig flavors. It gives...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $128.95 $143.40
A magnificent sleeper of the vintage, the 2008 Duhart Milon is the shrewd consumer’s wine to purchase by the case...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $129.94 $132.60
12 bottles: $127.34
You start to feel the dial turning up the power as this travels through the palate. Even at 10 years old, the tannins...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $630.36 $700.40
I loved this vintage of Haut Brion en primeur and am so happy that it has more than lived up to expectations now that...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $130.41 $144.90
A candidate for the -wine of the vintage,- the 2008 Haut-Bailly possesses incredible complexity. Tell-tale notes of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.00
12 bottles: $32.34
A delicious sleeper of the vintage, the dense plum-colored 2008 Hortevie offers up scents of herbs, earth, Asian...
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Red
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...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $1004.40 $1116.00
A candidate for the -wine of the vintage,- the 2008 should have been purchased before it began to soar in value...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.94
12 bottles: $29.34
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $844.95 $894.90
I continue to love the 2008 Château Latour, unquestionably in the top handful of wines in the vintage. A rich,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $257.76 $286.40
The 2008 Léoville Las Cases has a backward, broody, earthy bouquet with intense tobacco and graphite aromas, more...
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Red
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $371.94
The 2008 Lynch Bages is brilliant stuff as well as a textbook Pauillac. Revealing a still youthful ruby/purple color...
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Red
375ml
Bottle: $108.30
The 2008 Lynch Bages is brilliant stuff as well as a textbook Pauillac. Revealing a still youthful ruby/purple color...
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Red Bordeaux 2008 France Bordeaux

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.