×
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $465.21 $516.90
Rated 95 - The 2008 Angélus offers a still youthful, vibrant color as well as a classic Angélus bouquet of spice...
12 FREE
JD
95
DC
94
Red
750ml
Bottle: $34.20
12 bottles: $33.52
Rated 90 - Love the nose of crushed berries and slice plums. Full and chewy, with velvety tannins and a long finish....
12 FREE
JS
90
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $98.95 $103.20
Rated 93 - Solid wine, dark, firm and powerful. The black currant fruits shear through the tannic texture, giving a...
12 FREE
WE
93
JS
91
Red
750ml
Bottle: $119.95
12 bottles: $117.55
Rated 94 - Beautifully concentrated, rich and textured, with just a hint of maturity, the 2008 Château Canon offers...
12 FREE
JD
94
JS
93
Red
750ml
Bottle: $77.40
12 bottles: $72.96
Rated 92 - This château is progressing well in raising its quality as this big, chunky wine shows. The fruit has a...
12 FREE
WE
92
DC
91
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $183.60 $204.00
Rated 95 - The first vintage made at the new winery, the 2008 Cos d’Estournel is drinking beautifully today, with...
12 FREE
WA
95
WE
95
Red
375ml
Bottle: $48.38
Rated 90 - Balanced and fruity with tobacco and berry character. Full and very soft with fine tannins, and a juicy...
12 FREE
DC
90
VM
90
Case only
Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $56.70
Rated 92 - Barrel sample. Big, ripe and jammy, this is a ripe, soft wine, showing warm black plum and fig flavors. It...
12 FREE
WE
92
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $128.95 $143.40
Rated 94 - A magnificent sleeper of the vintage, the 2008 Duhart Milon is the shrewd consumer’s wine to purchase by...
12 FREE
WA
94
VM
93
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $129.94 $132.60
12 bottles: $127.34
Rated 94 - You start to feel the dial turning up the power as this travels through the palate. Even at 10 years old,...
12 FREE
DC
94
VM
91
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $630.36 $700.40
Rated 97 - I loved this vintage of Haut Brion en primeur and am so happy that it has more than lived up to...
12 FREE
DC
97
WA
96
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $130.41 $144.90
Rated 96 - A candidate for the -wine of the vintage,- the 2008 Haut-Bailly possesses incredible complexity. Tell-tale...
12 FREE
WA
96
DC
94
Red
750ml
Bottle: $33.00
12 bottles: $32.34
Rated 90 - A delicious sleeper of the vintage, the dense plum-colored 2008 Hortevie offers up scents of herbs, earth,...
12 FREE
WA
90
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $324.54 $360.60
Rated 96 - The 2008 La Mission Haut-Brion has an open, feisty, lively bouquet with blackberry, briary, cedar, black...
12 FREE
VM
96
WA
95
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $1004.40 $1116.00
Rated 98 - A candidate for the -wine of the vintage,- the 2008 should have been purchased before it began to soar in...
12 FREE
WA
98
WE
97
Case only
Red
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $132.94
Rated 90 - Dark tannins provide the structured for the Cabernet Sauvignon black currant flavors. It has power—this...
WE
90
Red
750ml
Bottle: $29.94
12 bottles: $29.34
12 FREE
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $844.95 $894.90
Rated 96 - I continue to love the 2008 Château Latour, unquestionably in the top handful of wines in the vintage. A...
12 FREE
WE
96
JD
96
Sale
Red
750ml
Bottle: $257.76 $286.40
Rated 96 - The 2008 Léoville Las Cases has a backward, broody, earthy bouquet with intense tobacco and graphite...
12 FREE
VM
96
WA
95
Case only
Red
1.5Ltr - Case of 6
Bottle: $284.95
Rated 94 - The 2008 Lynch Bages is brilliant stuff as well as a textbook Pauillac. Revealing a still youthful...
WE
94
JD
94

Red Bordeaux 2008

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.