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Red
750ml
Bottle: $486.36 $540.40
The second wine of the estate, the 2019 Carruades De Lafite offers a beautiful, Lafite-like bouquet of crème de...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $102.96 $114.40
Aromas of crushed stone, blackcurrants and blackberries. Full-bodied with extremely well-crafted tannins that are...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $62.80 $63.48
93-95 Barrel Sample. This rich and juicy wine is full of black fruits. The tannins are ripe and integrated into the...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $103.50 $115.00
Aromas of currants and sweet tobacco with some lead pencil. Medium to full body with very fine tannins and a long,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $36.25
12 bottles: $35.53
Brilliant color, intense, lovely red fruits, silky and rich attack. Deeply coloured with purple reflection. Fruity on...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $43.90 $46.90
12 bottles: $43.70
Well-packed, showing black currant and blackberry fruit flavors, which are marked by bramble and savory accents and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $86.31 $95.90
Generous nose, I love the smell here, richly fruited. The palate is on the linear, darker side with liquorice and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $50.40
12 bottles: $47.88
#63 TOP 100 WINES OF FRANCE 2022. Complex nose of blackberries, currants, oyster shells, iodine, gravel, cloves,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.90 $31.00
The 2019 Château Haut-Batailley Verso is incredibly floral and perfumed, with beautiful red and blue fruits as well...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $64.71 $71.90
Slightly darker fruited and denser than the more ethereally styled 2018, the 2019 Château Haut-Batailley offers up a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.69 $34.90
12 bottles: $33.02
The 2019 Lacoste-Borie was impressive as a barrel sample sent to my home last spring. Now in bottle, it has a...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $1167.21 $1296.90
A truly great Lafite, and maybe the wine of the vintage, the 2019 Château Lafite-Rothschild reveals a deep purple...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $961.20 $1068.00
#93 TOP 100 WINES OF FRANCE 2022. This is incredibly complex, with all the cabernet descriptors, from mint and lead...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $43.11 $47.90
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2019 Pedesclaux has a beguiling perfume of violets, warm cassis, preserved plums and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $52.80
Lots of cassis, graphite, chalky minerality, and sappy herb notes emerge from the 2019 Château Pibran, a rich,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $197.55 $219.50
The bouquet enchants by its expression of pure, crunchy fruit and florality without a trace of oakiness despite...
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Red
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $307.71 $341.90
#6 TOP 100 WINES OF FRANCE 2022. The aromas to this are really amazing, with a potpourri of spices and dried flowers,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $118.94
#6 TOP 100 WINES OF FRANCE 2022. The aromas to this are really amazing, with a potpourri of spices and dried flowers,...
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Red
375ml - Case of 24
Bottle: $23.88
The 2019 Echo De Lynch-Bages is the second wine of Château Lynch-Bages and it's beautifully done, with a more...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $45.89 $48.00
12 bottles: $45.60
The 2019 Echo De Lynch-Bages is the second wine of Château Lynch-Bages and it's beautifully done, with a more...
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2019 France Bordeaux Pauillac

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.

The commune consists of only 3000 acres of vineyards in the Haut-Medoc between the villages of Saint-Julien to the south and Saint-Estephe to the north, but is home to three of Bordeaux's five first growth wines: Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Latour, and Chateau Mouton Rothschild.

A classic Pauillac wine is rich, dense-coloured, full-bodied and profound with an elegant mix of black currants and cedary oak that is luxurious and distinguished when mature. There is a wide variation on this theme throughout Pauillac, in part due to the differing terrain across the region. This is shown within the 3 First growths where the Lafite is complex and elegant, the Mouton-Rothschild is voluptuous with power and the Latour is full yet refined. There are many other styles amongst Pauillac's Chateaux, ranging from elegant wines which are drinkable younger, such as Pichon Lalande to the more tannic, deep style of Lynch-Bages.

This commune, on the banks of the Gironde, has small hills which are unusual in the Medoc. The soil contains heavy gravel which is important to the wine growing as it reflects the sun and allows excellent drainage. It is differences in the subsoil that contribute towards each Chateau's style. Lafite has a limestone base which leads to a softer, aromatic flavour; Mouton-Rothschild has sand within its gravelly soil which produces its richness, and Latour enjoys a bed of predominantly gravel enabling it to be consistent even in wet years.

This region of Haut Medoc sets the standard for each Bordeaux vintage and is a wonderful and impressive representative. A great deal of pleasure awaits anyone exploring this wonderful appellation.