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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
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
750ml
Bottle: $163.95 $178.90
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
750ml
Bottle: $61.88
12 bottles: $60.64
The 2008 Lynch Moussas, 23% Merlot and 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, has an attractive, classically styled bouquet with...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $610.20 $678.00
This stood out immediately among the five first growth wines for its floral hit right off the first nose. The epitome...
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Red Bordeaux 2008 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.