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Red
750ml
Bottle: $103.20
This is classy for the vintage, with beautifully crafted tannins and focused, pure fruit. Currants and blackberries....
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $437.95 $456.00
6 bottles: $355.00
Fine tannins, this is elegant and finessed, with cool blueberry and raspberry fruits, touches of orange peel, rose...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $40.76
12 bottles: $39.94
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $75.95
12 bottles: $74.43
With dense fruit and a powerful, complex structure, this is one of the best wines from this chateau. Blackberries,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $165.60
12 bottles: $162.29
This is from a precocious vintage, with a harvest beginning on September 3, the very day the estate’s longtime...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $644.95 $678.00
A vintage that’s being drunk with abandon in France these days, the 2011 Chateau Cheval Blanc showed beautifully,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $118.59
12 bottles: $116.22
Continuing its impressive development, Clerc Milon 2011 is a serious wine. It is elegant, stylish, its fruits well...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.39
12 bottles: $29.78
This has a tangy sanguine edge running through it, with floral and cherry notes backed by a pomegranate edge on the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $114.90
6 bottles: $112.60
A Duhart that was particularly subdued when young, it is continuing to develop and will be even better in two or...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $40.80
This red shows good berry and spice character, with hints of minerals. It’s medium-bodied, with chewy tannins and a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $74.90 $78.60
12 bottles: $74.10
The savoury, floral edge of Cabernet on gravel is fully on display, and it needs time in the glass to soften and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $69.70
12 bottles: $68.31
Plenty of Pauillac character in terms of its tannic density and dark fruits, a little angular. Once you coax oxygen...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $94.95 $96.00
12 bottles: $93.05
Gruaud Larose can be underestimated in its early years but knows exactly how to show itself with a bit of bottle age,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $616.68 $685.20
A serious Haut-Brion, still very much closed. Concentrated with firm tannins, this has real depth to it, showing...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $199.94 $204.00
12 bottles: $193.80
A dark, grippy, structured version, with a strong charcoal spine running through the core of dark fig, steeped plum...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $53.40
12 bottles: $52.33
This is a wine that has great potential—you can tell from the firm tannins, tight acidity and closed texture....
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $54.60
12 bottles: $53.51
Full in the mouth, this is a soft and juicy wine at the outset. There is a cushioned, plump feel to the wine, with...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $48.00
This is a little more ready to drink than the 2010 vintage at this point, but still delivers plenty of rich, fleshy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $122.40
12 bottles: $119.95
The 2011 Le Gay exhibits a deep ruby/blue/purple color in addition to a sumptuous nose of spring flowers, blueberries...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $51.75
12 bottles: $50.72
Barrel sample. Ripe and sweet tannins combine easily with this wine's juicy fruit and spice notes. All of the...
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Red Bordeaux 2011 750ml

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.