En Primeur 2024
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[Add to shopping basket] | Angelus | St Emilion | £1,074 | 6x75cl | New | - | - | 90-93 | 94 | 93-95 | - |
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The 2024 Angelus is very fine. It is the first vintage I have tasted that captures the newer approach at Angelus, one where the wines are not as extracted as in the past. Black cherry, plum, spice, new leather and menthol fill out the layers effortlessly. Here, too, the wine shows superb balance and real textural presence. The blend is 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, with the Merlot being raised in 80% new oak and 20% once-filled barrels, and the Cabernet Franc in equal parts foudres and new smaller French oak barrels. The 2024 is mid-weight, classy and polished. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2054 A blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, cropped at a very honorable 40 hectoliters per hectare, the 2024 Angélus has turned out well, offering up aromas of dark berries, minty plums and violet, framed by a deft touch of toasty oak. Medium-bodied, ample and suave, it's polished and textural, with sweet but present tannins and creditable persistence on the finish. Score: 90 - 93 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Vivid plum colour, cedar and gunsmoke on the opening, skilfully and carefully put together, slim through the palate, but this is very clearly finessed, sleek, with quiet confidence, and pumice stone texture, cherry pit, squid ink, damson, rosebud, Cabernet Franc dominant in terms of its floral aromatics. 39hl/h yield, 40th anniversary vintage of Hubert de Böuard. This will for sure be ready to drink earlier than many vintages of Angélus, but it is well structured and will age for many years to come. No chaptilisation. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2046 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Armailhac | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 87-89 | 92 | 90-92 | - | |
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The 2024 d'Armailhac is a very beautiful wine. Dark, layered and intensely aromatic, the 2024 is so expressive. The percentage of Cabernet Franc from 60+ year-old vines is high in this vintage, and that very much comes through in the wine's perfume and saline intensity. All the elements are so well integrated. Dark red-toned fruit, blood orange, spice, cedar and new leather explode on the finish. Tasted two times. Score: 90 - 92 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 Offering up pretty notes of sweet wild berries, rose petals and burning embers, the 2024 d'Armailhac is medium-bodied, bright and precise, with a sweet core of fruit but a somewhat strict, angular profile. If it rounds out with élevage, it will merit a better rating. Score: 87 - 89 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Lovely deep plum colour, this has some chalky tannins, good depths of cassis and greengage fruits, with the real floral edge of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon, that savoury, precise, elegant side, enjoyble with salinity and lift on the finish, Here the longer stretch of drought than normal of rainfall from end of June to mid September. Harvest began September 25 though to October 8, 3.69 pH. 50% new oak. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Ausone | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 96 | 93-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Ausone is pure sensuality. Intensely perfumed, pliant and silky on the palate, Ausone is haunting in its beauty. All the elements are so well balanced. Black cherry, lavender, mocha, espresso and exotic spice overtones all take shape in the glass. A wine of understated depth, the 2024 is impressive. Even in the early going, the 100% new oak is not at all evident, suggesting a wine with superior balance. The blend is 65% Cabernet Franc and 35% Merlot. Score: 93 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 Deep ruby in colour, this delivers texture and flavoursome sappy fruits, clear winemaking skill that maintains estate signature. You feel the tightrope walk of minerality and fruit, and as in 2021 Ausone is at the very top of what was possible in the vintage. Cassis bud, peony, violet, cloves, jasmine flowers, chamomile, subtle complexity and layers that expand and build through the palate. The successful construction of this wine highlights what was so challeging to fully achieve with so many others in the vintage. Harvest 30 September 5 October, Philippe Baillarguet cellar master. 100% new oak. Score: 96 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2046 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Batailley | Pauillac | £150 | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 93 | 91-93 | - | |
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The 2024 Batailley is a wild, exotic wine. Kirsch, menthol, blood orange and white truffle race across the palate, framed with a kiss of French oak that works well in this style. Floral notes resonant on the juicy finish. This approachable, open-knit Pauillac is a delight. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2044 Fragrant, floral, precise, with graphite and crayon character that is immediately apparent on the nose. Captures the appellation and estate signature, with classicism and balance, depth through the mid palate and slim, savoury blue and black fruits. Well constructed, and no question that this can age - easy to project forward to think that in a decade this will be in full Batailley swing. 57% new oak for ageing, Casteja family estate. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Beausejour (Duffau) | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 95 | 90-92 | - | |
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The 2024 Croix de Beauséjour is elegant and silky, with lovely aromatics and a gracious, mid-weight structure. Croix is a blend of two Merlot parcels on the lower slopes of the property, plus a dollop of old-vine Franc, with 3% press wines. The 2024 is clearly built along the lines of understated finesse, and yet it has enough depth to avoid coming across as overly light in way. It's an exquisite wine from proprietor Josephine Duffau-Lagarrosse. Bright red-toned fruit and floral overtones linger. Score: 90 - 92 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2034 Concentrated ruby, purity of fruit expression, chalky tannins with redcurrant and raspberry, lift and juice, white pepper spice, the team here manages to capture the best of the vintage and this is a wine with ageing ability and a quiet sense of joy. 3.36ph, 7% press wine in here, more than usual, using 114h half barrels for the press wine, long slow harvest. Josèphine Duffau Lagarosse co-owner and winemaker. 40% new oak (compared to 70% in 2022, for example), Axel Marchal and Julien Viaud consultants. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2031-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Beausejour Becot | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 92 | 95-97 | - | |
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The 2024 Beau-Séjour Bécot is deep, vivid and wonderfully alive. Dynamic and explosive, with striking inner perfume, Beau-Séjour Bécot is hauntingly beautiful. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, menthol, licorice and rose petal soar out of the glass. Silky, refined tannins add to the wine's finesse. The increase of Cabernet Franc in the blend has added aromatic depth and textural elegance. There's a feeling of transparency here that is impossible to miss. Beau-Séjour Bécot has grown into one of the most distinctive wines in Bordeaux. Simply put, the 2024 is magnificent. That's all there is to it. Élevage is 55% in new oak, 15% in once-used barrels and the rest in 20HL casks. Tasted two times. Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 Ruby red colour, vivid reflections, chewy character not just to the tannins but to the fruit, this is on the cool and slim side of the vintage, rose buds, peonies, but with real finesse and character, and excellent texture that keeps focus and interest through the palate, 90-100m on the plâteau, with underground limestone cellars down to 11m. Thomas Duclos consultant. Harvest 25 September to 4 October, latest harvest for Merlot in past 40 years, finishing up this grape on October 3. 3.4 pH 32 hl/ha. Cabernet Franc has been slowly increasing in the vineyard and in the blend of the 1st wine. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Beychevelle | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 92 | 95-97 | - | |
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The 2024 Beychevelle might very well be the wine of the vintage in Saint-Julien. It is certainly among the very best I tasted on the Left Bank. Plush, inky and beautifully layered in the glass, the 2024 is so silky and inviting. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, mocha and spice are some of the many notes that stain the palate. The sustained, resonant finish is a thing of beauty. Tasted two times. Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2054 Deep ruby cherry colour, this opens with bright plum and blackberry fruits, laced with cloves, white pepper, apple blossom. St Julien signature but the acidity accentuates the tannic grip at this point. Grands Millésimes De France, 41hl/ha yield. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Blanc de Lynch Bages | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 94 | 93 | - | |
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Just bottled, the 2024 Blanc de Lynch Bages is a gorgeous, refreshing dry white to drink now and over the next handful of years. Lemon peel, white pepper, mint and chalky undertones are beautifully delineated. There's a bit more Muscadelle in this year's blend, but that is not especially apparent. Instead, Sauvignon Blanc drives the feel here. Score: 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2025-2030 Offers tension and grip, a slow unroll, reserved at first but as it opens you get luscious white peach and pear fruits, along with elderflower and apple blossom florals. Great stuff from this lovely structure-driven white wine. 50% new oak. 3.12 pH. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2025-2034 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Branaire Ducru | St Julien | £159 | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | 91 | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Branaire-Ducru is a super-classic Branaire. Medium in body and gracious, the 2024 is defined by its lifted aromatics and silky, polished tannins. The proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon is especially high in 2024, a sign that the fruit harvested on the later side benefited from better conditions, namely a lack of rain. The 2024 possesses lovely purity and exquisite balance. Floral top notes and a burst of red-toned fruit reappear on the finish to round things out in style. It will be especially fine if élevage softens the contours. This is a fine effort from proprietor Francois-Xavier Maroteau and longtime winemaker Jean-Dominique Videau. Tasted two times. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2049 The 2024 Branaire-Ducru offers up a pretty and precise bouquet of cassis, violets and pencil shavings. Medium-bodied, supple and suave, with polished tannins and tangy acids, it's a fine-boned, delicate wine from Branaire that was harvested between 20 September and 9 October. It's a blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot that attained 12.8% alcohol, and it's being raised in a touch less new oak than usual. Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Lovely bright plum colour, slim blue and black fruits, coffee bean and cedar oak notes, carefully constructed with balance, a little short on the finish compared to the excellent recent vintages at Branaire. 55% new oak. 41.5 hl/ha, this is the first vintage with the new cellars, François-Xavier Maroteaux owner and new president of the Union de Grands Crus de Bordeaux. Score: 91 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Brane Cantenac | Margaux | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | 95 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Brane-Cantenac is shaping up to be a gem. Blood orange, crushed flowers, spice, mint and chalk confer notable brightness. The 2024 is marked by a strong red-fruit character, bright acids and mid-weight structure, all of which make for a super-classic, if somewhat nervy, Brane-Cantenac. There's quite a bit of potential here. Tasted two times. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2049 A blend of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 Brane-Cantenac exhibits aromas of sweet berries, vanilla pod and toasty new oak, followed by a medium-bodied, fleshy and youthfully tannic palate that's lent a creamy, lactic quality by its malolactic fermentation in new barrels. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Tons of energy, stone fruits, cherry pits, damson, a lovely feeling of fruit that has plenty of life ahead it, fresh and juicy with sapidity. not trying too hard just full of pleasure. Edge of grilled campfire, graphite, generosity, easily one of the wines of the vintage. 11.3% press wine, 3.53pH, 46.6hl/ha yield. Harvest 17 September to 8 October, 80% new oak for ageing. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Calon Segur | St Estephe | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | 92 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Calon Ségur is shaping up very nicely. Dark and ample, with terrific balance, the 2024 is another strong wine from the team led by Technical Director Vincent Millet. Readers will find a Calon Ségur of inner strength, its deceptively mid-weight structure notwithstanding. The 2024 is a wine of restraint and class more than power, never a bad thing at this property. The 100% new oak is very nicely balanced, even in the early going. This has great potential. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Calon-Ségur is a terrific effort. A blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon (picked late, between October 2 and October 9), 9% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, it unwinds in the glass with notes of plums, cassis and iris mingled with hints of burning embers and incense. Medium to full-bodied, supple and layered, it's suave and seamless, with good depth at the core, powdery tannins and beautifully integrated acids. At pH 3.50 and 13.1% alcohol, it's also one of the most classically proportioned vintages this estate has produced over the last decade. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Beautiful red ruby expression. A slimmer more finessed expression of Calon than in recent years, that gives it less estate signature than some, but this has beautiful cassis bud, rose petals, peony, iris, cocoa bean and graphite. Subtle but with real charm. 3.60 pH. 45 hl/ha. 100% new oak. Vincent Millet director, Harvest 23 September to 9 October. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Canon | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 95 | 95-97 | - | |
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The 2024 Canon is superb. One of the standouts of the vintage, the 2024 possesses striking mid-palate depth to match its vertical personality. Chalk, white pepper, mint, lavender, rose petal, slate and blue/purplish fruit all stain the palate. There's gorgeous depth and density here, and yet the 2024 remains a super-classic wine from the property. This is a real stunner. That's all there is to it. Tasted four times. Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2059 This is a gorgeous Canon, with the austerity of limestone on full display, as you would expect in this vintage, but a creamy edge comes in through the mid palate. Clear precision, flesh pared from flesh, peony, peach pit, cherry stone, damson, blueberry, graphite, crayon, pumice, lemongrass, gunsmoke, this has tons of layers and waves of complexity, classical and balanced. 44hl/ha yield, organic certified. 3.35 pH. 49% new oak. Harvest 19 September to 9 October. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Cantemerle | Haut Medoc | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 92 | 88-91 | - | |
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The 2024 Cantemerle is bold and expressive in the glass. Dried herbs, incense, tobacco, mocha, plum and leather build nicely in a mid-weight Haut-Médoc with plenty of layers and fine overall persistence. There's a good bit of potential here. Score: 88 - 91 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2034 Great quality, sappy, fragrant, savoury Cabernet Sauvignon aromatics. On the palate things open to show squid ink, juice, raspberry puree, liquorice root, really enjoyable, good texture. 48hl/h yield, 35% new oak, Laure Canu director, SMA Group owners. New winery to be ready for the 2025 harvest. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Capbern | St Estephe | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | 91 | 90-92 | - | |
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The 2024 Capbern is a very pretty, delicate Saint-Estèphe. Cabernet Sauvignon takes the leading role in this elegant, nuanced wine. Crushed flowers, spice, new leather, cedar, licorice and incense are all delineated in the glass. Vibrant floral notes reappear on the long, persistent finish. Score: 90 - 92 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2036 A blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Merlot, the 2024 Capbern is a polished classic, offering up notions of cassis, lilac, licorice and pencil shavings, followed by a medium-bodied, supple and polished palate with good underlying cut and grip. It checks in at 12.9% alcohol. Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Enticing aromatics on this wine, soft waves of rose petals, blackberry fruit, crayon and pencil lead, with measured oak use. Acidity puts the tannins into a little overly-focused position on the finish, and the austerity that needs to be softened over ageing. Fairly old school, with charm. 3.60 pH. 45 hl/ha. 60% new oak. Score: 91 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2028 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Carmes Haut Brion | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-96 | 94 | 95-97 | - | |
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Seamless and silky in the glass, with superb balance, the 2024 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is one of the wines of the vintage. All the elements are so well balanced, always a sign of a superior vintage at this address. Floral notes, spice, leather and mocha run through a core of layered, beautifully persistent dark red fruit. Harvest took place between September 17 and 25, during one of the rare windows with little rain. As always, Les Carmes is done with a high percentage of stems (52%), specifically 100% for the Cabernet Franc, 50% for the Merlot and 20% for the Cabernet Sauvignon. Aging is 70% new oak barrels, 19% 18HL foudre and 11% amphora. New oak is already very nicely integrated, another sign of a superb vintage. The 2024 is a brilliant effort by the team led by Technical Director Olivier Pouthier. Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 One of the most impressive wines of the vintage, the 2024 Les Carmes Haut-Brion is a striking effort that sets itself apart with seamless integration, even at this early stage, and a strong sense of identity. Poised, precise and unmistakably singular, it opens in the glass with a perfumed bouquet of iris, violet, dark berries, cherries, vine smoke and gentian. Medium to full-bodied, supple and notably fleshy for the vintage, it’s layered and textural, with a sappy, enveloping core of pure, vibrant fruit framed by finely grained, velvety tannins, culminating in a long, precise and gently stemmy finish. This is one of the rare wines of the vintage where sappiness is expressed with such finesse and charm, thanks in no small part to meticulous vineyard work and severe sorting in the winery. The blend is composed of 48% Cabernet Franc, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon and 23% Merlot, and it's maturing in a combination of 70% new oak, 19% foudres and 11% amphorae. Score: 93 - 96 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2044 Inky depths to the colour, touch of reduction on the opening as is often the case with En Primeur Carmes, this delivers energy, density, clarity. Austerity on the finish, but plenty of interest, savoury and muscular juicy black fruits, expect a wine that is built around about texture, architecture and savour, which is not something that I have found in many bottles in the vintage. 90% new oak, split between barrels and casks, 11% amphoras. Harvest 17 to 27 September. 3.61 pH, clay and limestone, 60 years old average vine age. 46hl/H yield in vineyard, 41hl/h after picking selection, then 24hl/h after cellar selection. All press used, no chaptilisation. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Carruades de Lafite (2nd wine of Ch Lafite) | Pauillac | £714 | 6x75cl | New | - | - | 89-91 | 92 | 91-93 | - |
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The 2024 Carruades de Lafite is plush, sensual and inviting right out of the gate. Soft contours wrap around a core of plum, black cherry, gravel, incense, licorice and baking spice. This is a rare Carruades that is Merlot-driven. It's a balance that works quite well. This showy, inviting Carruades is quite the charmer Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2044 The 2024 Carruades de Lafite is a blend of 47% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet France and 2% Petit Verdot. Unwinding in the glass to reveal aromas of dark berries, plums, lilac and tobacco leaf, it's medium-bodied, lively and open-knit, with a moderately persistent finish. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Gorgeous deep plum colour, very juicy, extremely well handled, savoury and mouthwatering, cassis bud, roses, crayon, shorter on the finish than a typical Carruades, but this has plenty of subtle pleasure and will be ready to drink sooner than usual. Harvest 23 September to 7 October, 32hl/h yield, 47% of the harvest is in this wine, 12% press. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Cheval Blanc | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 94 | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Cheval Blanc is a blend taken from 37 of the 45 parcels on the property. Dried flowers, mocha, rose petal and blood orange open nicely in the bouquet, leading to an understated mid-palate and a subtly persistent finish. Understated and nuanced, the 2024 offers lovely forward fruit in a soft, accessible style with no hard edges or awkward contours. All the elements are nicely put together, and yet there is no denying the fact that the 2024 is very light. Élevage will be everything here. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2054 Lilac, peony flowers, same family of aromatics as the Petit Cheval, same feeling of finesse and precision, but here everything has been taken up a notch, more density, more slate and pumice stone texture. Expect subtle complexity, a wine that steals up on you, impresses in its precision and clarity. July and August just 20mm of rain each month, well below 30 year average, 140mm rain in September, highest since 2006, harvest September 18 to October 3, 3.62ph (3.9ph in 2022), 37 plots out of the 56 in the vineyard are in here. 100% new oak for ageing. Looking forward to seeing after ageing, it has all the elements and bones in place for a totally delicious Cheval. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2050 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Clarte de Haut Brion | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | 92 | 91-93 | - | |
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The 2024 La Clarté de Haut Brion is terrific. It offers terrific depth, character and personality. Lemon confit, white pepper, slate, chalk and mint build nicely, but I am most struck by the wine's textural depth and overall presence. This is an especially fine Clarté. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2031 A delicate smoky reduction followed by aromas of pear, spring blossoms and flowers introduces the 2024 La Clarté de Haut-Brion, a medium to full-bodied, sappy and layered wine with a fleshy palate due to its proportion of Sémillon, with a lively, saline texture. This is a blend of 64.5% Sémillon and 35.5% Sauvignon Blanc. Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027 - 2039 Majority of Sémillon across the whole range this year. 42% new oak. Always one of the great value wines of Bordeaux, which might sound ridiculous but the sheer quality is incredibly consistent. Vibrant, structured, pure, touch of stone fruits, dominant apricot pit, juicy and joyful. Lovely quality. Harvest September 2 to 10, 3.22ph, 38hl/h yield. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2025-2030 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Clerc Milon | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | 94 | 91-93 | - | |
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The 2024 Clerc Milon is packed with blue/purplish fruit, lavender, sage, dried flowers and mocha. Juicy and forward, Clerc Milon has a lot to recommend it. Time in the glass brings out gorgeous Cabernet Sauvignon savoriness to complement the wine's mid-weight structure. Lovely. Tasted two times. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2039 Notes of sweet cassis, pencil shavings and creamy new oak introduce the 2024 Clerc Milon, a medium-bodied, taut and lively wine built around chalky tannins. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Excellent quality, well defined, you see the grip of the terroir here, and the floral edge of Cabernet and Carmanère, with its spicy side, and beautiful lift. Clearly needs time to full open, this has the cassis, cigar box and leather feel of a great old school Pauillac. Lovely. Harvest 24 September to 6 October. 3.72 pH. 55% new oak. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Climens | Sauternes/Barsac | ---- | 12x37.5cl | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Clinet | Pomerol | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | 92 | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Clinet is a dark, stylish wine. Black cherry, lavender, spice, licorice and blue-toned fruit are beautifully delineated. Dark and vibrant in the glass, with terrific depth, Clinet is super-expressive in 2024. Ronan Laborde bled the musts to bring the wine into the rich, textured style he seeks here. Clinet is a rare Pomerol that is 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, with the Cabernet very much in evidence. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Clinet, incorporating a significant percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon, is one of the denser, more muscular wines of the vintage, offering up aromas of blackberries, vanilla pod and creamy oak. Medium to full-bodied, deep and extracted, it's tannic and lactic, with a chewy, Bourbon-inflected finish. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Rich sweet damson and raspberry fruit, vanilla bean, caramel, the gourmet side of Pomerol is checking in, which we have missed in many, the tannins are sleek and well extracted, no dilution through the palate, good job. No need to wait too long - a good introduction to this property. 35hl/ha yield. Ronan Laborde owner. Tasted twice. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Clos du Marquis | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | 91 | 90-92 | - | |
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The 2024 Clos du Marquis is a very pretty, aromatic Saint-Julien. Crushed flowers, mint, lavender, white pepper and slate give the 2024 an attractive upper register to match its mid-weight, nervy personality. There is a bit of dryness on the finish that hopefully will be resolved with élevage. Score: 90 - 92 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2036 A blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc that attained 12.9% alcohol, the 2024 Clos du Marquis unwinds in the glass with notes of cassis, iris and pencil shavings, followed by a medium-bodied, taut and incisive palate with good depth and persistence. It's a serious wine, but it will require patience. Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Bright vivid plum character, sappy and juicy, the austerity is pretty high with cloves and smoky black tea, elderflower, cherry pit. Needs time in bottle to really open up, but this is good quality, and has plenty of St Julien character. 32hl/ha yield. 50% new oak, with some larger oak casks. 3.62 pH, 32 hl/ha. 7.6% press wine. Harvest 25 September to 10 October. Score: 91 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Clos Haut Peyraguey | Sauternes/Barsac | ---- | 12x37.5cl | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Conseillante | Pomerol | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 94-96 | 94 | 95-98 | - | |
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The 2024 La Conseillante is shaping up to be one of the wines of the vintage. Vertical and explosive, with spectacular depth, the 2024 is an eye-opening wine, with regard to both the potential of the property and the vintage. In 2024, La Conseillante separates itself from the pack by a wide margin. It may ultimately not merit the very highest of scores, but it will almost certainly come close. Dark blue fruit, violet, spice, new leather, menthol and licorice stain the palate all the way through the creamy finish. Conseillante is a very serious wine. Technical Director Marielle Cazaux made all the right choices in a very challenging year in which yields were reduced by 50% in the field and then through strict selection in the cellar. Tasted two times. Score: 95 - 98 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 La Conseillante is one of the wines of the vintage this year, wafting from the glass with aromas of raspberries and violets mingled with hints of pipe tobacco, vine smoke and spices. Medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with beautifully refined, integrated tannins, impressive intensity of flavor and a long, penetrating finish, this suave, sensual Pomerol represents the quintessential Conseillante. It's a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc that produced 22 hectoliters per hectare after extensive sorting. Score: 94 - 96 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Dark cherry in colour, vivid, the fruits have beautiful clarity on the aromatics and the opening notes, and density through the palate. Velvety texture with lift, cocoa bean, espresso, damson, excellent quality. Michel Rolland consultant., 100% new oak, 85% of production in La Conseillante. One of the success stories in Pomerol. Harvest 20 September to 4 October, 30hl/ha when it came in from the vineyard, 22hl/h after density sorting. 3.57ph, Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2050 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Cos d'Estournel | St Estephe | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | 94 | 95-98 | - | |
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The 2024 Cos d'Estournel could very well be one of the wines of the vintage. Bright and vibrant in the glass, with tons of energy, the 2024 impresses with its vertical structure, depth and overall balance. Blue/purplish fruit, spice, new leather, lavender and mocha are beautifully delineated throughout. The 2024 is super-classic. The modest 12.8% alcohol is notable, especially because that also means there is less extraction of wood. Cos is one of my early favorites in 2024. Score: 95 - 98 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Cos d'Estournel is shaping up beautifully. Offering up aromas of sweet cassis, plums, pencil shavings and iris, it's medium to full-bodied, supple and suave, reflecting this estate's pivot to a more harmonious, less aggressively extracted style. With a layered, seamless core of fruit framed by plenty of sweet, powdery tannin, it's a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot, 1.5% Cabernet Franc and 0.5% Petit Verdot that checks in at 12.7% alcohol. Cos is an early-ripening terroir, and that clearly played to the relative strengths of the vintage. Harvest here began with the estate's old-vine Merlot on gravel on September 23, concluding with the last Cabernet Sauvignon on October 7. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Highly textural, with layers and depth, this shows savoury and slim black fruits, real finesse, beautifully precise and grippy texture, cocoa bean, espresso, lovely quality. This feels genuinely old school in the best sense of the word. Harvest 23 September to 7 October. 3.52 pH. 20% new oak, 46% 1st wine. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Cos d'Estournel Blanc | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 95 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Cos d'Estournel Blanc is one of the best editions of this wine I can remember tasting. Rich and ample, the 2024 possesses notable textural richness but also a good bit of moderating vibrancy. The balance here is simply superb. Lemon confit, almond, white flowers and chalk build into the layered, resonant finish. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2034 Restrained right now, just getting revved up, delivering pear, saffron, elderflower, white tea and liquorice root. Limestone soils in northern Médoc, field grafted from Cabernet Sauvignon in 2021. This needs carafing, and should take a few years before really opening up, but has a ton of texture, confidence and character. 3.04 pH. Harvest 17 to 27 September. 8% new oak. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2036 Brooding and shy, the 2024 Cos d'Estournel Blanc reveals aromas of citrus and lime, followed by a moderately weighted, incisive and lively palate with tangy acid s and a short finish. I'll reserve judgment until after bottling. Not scored Score: - Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Coutet | Sauternes/Barsac | ---- | 12x37.5cl | - | - | - | 97 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Coutet is a dense, voluptuous Sauternes. Orange peel, apricot jam, passion fruit, pineapple and white flowers convey tons of exoticism. Ample and resonant on the palate, with superb depth, Coutet is outstanding in 2024. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2044 Delivers texture and flesh, love the aromatics that are sweet without being heavy, this has restraint and carefully-measured fleshy fruits, nectarine, pineapple, white peaches, lime zest, gunsmoke, perfectly-judged acidities. One of the wines of the vintage, great stuff from Philippe and Aline Baly. Score: 97 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2038 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Dame de Montrose (2nd wine of Montrose) | St Estephe | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | 92 | 90-92 | - | |
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The 2024 La Dame de Montrose is a very elegant, sexy wine. Lifted aromatics, bright red-toned fruit and silky tannins speak to finesse. All the elements are so well balanced. A burst of red cherry, mocha and crushed flowers extends the soft, supple finish. The 2024 is being raised in approximately 63% used oak, 20% foudre, 15% new oak and 2% amphora. It's an incredibly charming wine that should drink well on release. Score: 90 - 92 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2034 If the grand vin is built for the ages, the 2024 La Dame de Montrose plays a different hand, emphasizing suavity and charm. Offering up notes of blackcurrants, raspberries, violets and licorice, it's medium to full-bodied, ample and suave, with supple tannins, lively acids and a seamless, complete profile. It's a blend of 73% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc that sees a more reductive élevage than the grand vin. Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com This has dark fruit character, leafy but nuanced and sculpted, lovely savoury mouthwatering quality on the finish, At Montrose they did some leaf removal even in early June at fruit set, and left grass throughout the vineyard all the way through the season to increase competition, and did some tidying up at the very beginning of veraison to remove any that were clearly a little behind schedule - so basically just had to be extremely reactive at all times. The yield was 38hl/h after farming entirely organically. Harvest 23 September to 8 October. 20% large oak casks, 15% new oak. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Doisy Daene | Sauternes/Barsac | £177 | 12x37.5cl | New | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Doisy Daene | Sauternes/Barsac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 95 | 92-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Doisy-Daëne is redolent of apricot, tangerine oil, baked apple tart, pineapple and spice. Bold and luscious in feel, Doisy-Daëne is quite overt in 2024. It offers ample body to match its abundant curves and sexy, flamboyant profile. Tasted two times. Score: 92 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2044 Bright, vivid, beautiful depth, lime zest, saffron, juicy and luscious, this majors on orange peel, pineapple and mango, mouthwatering finish, exceptional quality. Olivier And Eric Casteja. 9 hl/ha yield, Barsac location. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2038 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Doisy Vedrines | Sauternes/Barsac | £147 | 12x37.5cl | New | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Doisy Vedrines | Sauternes/Barsac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | - | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Doisy-Védrines is a potent, surprisingly tightly wound Barsac that is going to need at least several years to come together. That won't be an issue, as Doisy-Védrines ages spectacularly well. Today, though, it is far less charming and seductive than it is most years. Bright floral and tropical notes open with some coaxing, but this is a wine for readers who can wait. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2030-2054 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Domaine de Chevalier Blanc | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 92-94 | 94 | 95-97 | - | |
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The 2024 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc has it all. Powerful yet elegant, deep yet light on its feet, the 2024 is a wine of contrasts and harmony that will thrill readers for many years to come. Nothing in particular stands out, rather it is the wine's balance that carries the day. Chamomile, crushed flowers, chalk and a hint of new oak run through a core of citrus-tinged fruit. The long, sustained finish is remarkable. Superb. Tasted two times. Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2054 A blend of 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Sémillon, the 2024 Domaine de Chevalier Blanc reveals aromas of crisp stone fruit, confit citrus and flowers. Medium to full-bodied, concentrated and layered, it's sappy and bright with a gently oaky frame and a long, ethereal finish. Score: 92 - 94 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2044 Full of character, intense, grippy, green apple, white pear, white peach, unripe mango, sage and saffron and just so juicy on the finish. Great potential, clear ageing ability, fragrant and confident. Harvest 4 to 19 September. 33% new oak. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2025-2038 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Domaine de Chevalier Rouge | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | - | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Domaine de Chevalier is soft, fruity and relatively simple, given its typical personality. Plum, black cherry, licorice, chocolate and sweet oak are pushed forward in this open-knit, easygoing Pessac-Léognan. There may be more here than meets the eye. We will see. Today, the 2024 is on the light side. Tasted two times. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2032-2049 A blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 Domaine de Chevalier reveals a spicy, brooding bouquet of oak, dark berries and gentian. Medium to full-bodied, juicy and round, it's firm and has an assertive tannic frame, concluding with a somewhat chewy finish. Despite a respectable yield and a clear stylistic shift toward less oak influence, the estate’s sandy terroirs struggled to achieve full ripeness in this delicate vintage. Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2034 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Ducru Beaucaillou | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 91-93 | 95 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Ducru-Beaucaillou is a sleek, elegant wine. Silky tannins give the 2024 its distinctly mid-weight, lithe personality. Readers will find a gracious Ducru built more on persistence and nervy tension than size or opulence. Blue/black fruits, lavender, cloves, menthol and chocolate open over time. It will be fascinating to see how this ages. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Ducru-Beaucaillou is showing well at this stage, unfurling in the glass with a perfumed bouquet of dark berries, flowers, gentian and fresh licorice, interwoven with delicate spicy nuances. Medium to full-bodied, layered, and seamless, it is lively and refined, with somewhat firm tannins leading to a gently grippy finish. This was harvested between September 30 and October 15. YC Score: 91 - 93 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com A gorgeously vivid, lifted nose, with floral aromatics, dark berry and cassis fruits, fleshy but understated, elegant and finessed, squid ink, sandalwood, incense, maintains estate signature and is full of pleasure, 100% new oak for ageing, 3.8 pH. Harvest 23 September to 7 October. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2048 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Duhart Milon | Pauillac | £276 | 6x75cl | New | - | - | 90-93 | 92 | 91-93 | - |
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The 2024 Duhart-Milon opens with strong Cabernet Sauvignon inflections. Blue-toned fruit, lavender, spice and dried herbs open first, all framed by brisk acids and supporting tannins that lend shape. The 2024 includes 14% press wines, about the norm here. This is a very promising Duhart. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 A blend of 78% Cabernet Sauvignon and 22% Merlot, the 2024 Duhart-Milon was cropped at 32 hectoliters per hectare, and it was here that the Lafite team concluded the harvest. Offering up aromas of cassis and red berries mingled with hints of violets, pen ink, licorice and toasty oak, it's medium to full-bodied, supple and fleshy, with a round, integrated, charming profile, concluding with a moderately persistent finish. Score: 90 - 93 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Shows density and balance, with leafy but fragrant aromatics that unfurl slowly, and bright acidity that is not overpowering to the blueberry and blackcurrant fruits. The skill of the Lafite team is clear here, and this is a classically balanced Duhart that will age well. Harvest September 25 to October 4, 32hl/h yield, above the Pauillac average. Moulin de Duhart is not being sold En Primeur. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Eglise Clinet | Pomerol | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | 97 | 95-97 | - | |
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The 2024 L'Eglise-Clinet is brilliant and intensely aromatic in its first impression. Vibrant red-toned fruit, blood orange, cinnamon, cedar and rose petal soar from the glass. Readers will find a vertical, explosive L'Eglise-Clinet that impresses with its poise and balance. The 2024 deftly marries finesse and power to a degree I have seldom seen here in the past. Superb. Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 L'Eglise Clinet reveals a dark, brooding, gently reductive bouquet of incense, dark berries, smoke and oak mingled with floral accents of iris. Medium-bodied, layered and firm, it's built around tangy acids, with a lively mid-palate framed by powdery tannins that assert themselves on the spicy, youthfully chewy finish. This blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc will mature in 85% new oak. YC Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Elegant, slow unrolling of black fruit flavours, beautiful precision, get a lot of fennel here, even a touch of marzipan, coffee grounds, savoury and juicy, black fruits, cassis and blueberry, violets, powdery rose petals. This is just exceptional within the vintage, such a deeply felt and deeply chiselled wine, and I can unhesitatingly recommend. No chaptilisation, 3.59ph, 85% new oak. Harvest September 21 to 28, 45hl/h yield. Clearly will age with elegance and finesse. Red wine of the vintage for me. Score: 97 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2046 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Evangile | Pomerol | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 92-94 | 93 | 91-93 | - | |
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The 2024 L'Évangile offers good up-front intensity but then loses some of its depth on the mid-palate and finish. Black fruit, espresso, licorice, cloves and mocha confer an impression of gravitas. Élevage is 50% new oak, 25% foudre, 8% amphora and the rest in once-used barrels. Something about the oak profile does not feel optimal, as if the oak is mismatched to the wine. Élevage will be critical here, as the 2024 is quite forbidding at this stage. Even so, this is strong showing in a challenging year for a vineyard with relatively young vines that was largely replanted between 2002 and 2010. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2049 The 2024 L'Evangile has turned out beautifully, reflecting this estate's recent evolution (refining barrel choices and integrating foudre into the cellar) and its comparatively young vineyard's propensity to perform well in years with minimal hydric stress. Offering up aromas of cassis and blackberries mingled with notions of violets and black tea, it's medium to full-bodied, lively and layered, with a velvety attack, good depth at the core and a persistent finish. This blend of 80% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon attained 13.5% alcohol. Score: 92 - 94 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Savoury plum, soft tannins, a touch of chalk, graphite, lovely fragrant florals, and extremely finessed. A wine that will age with grace. In the cellar, this was one of their longest macerations on record, up to 28 days, carefully measured, Harvest 18 September to 2 October, 22hl/h yield. Zero press wine, 45% new oak for ageing, plus 25% in large oak casks, 7% amphora. Juliette Couderc winermaker. Blason de l’Evangile is not being sold En Primeur. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Fargues | Sauternes/Barsac | ---- | 12x37.5cl | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Fieuzal Rouge | Pessac-Leognan | £120 | 6x75cl | - | - | 91-93 | 92 | 89-91 | - | |
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The 2024 de Fieuzal is a powerful, brooding wine. Dried herbs, tobacco, scorched earth and leather all take shape in the glass. This offers lovely mid-palate creaminess and fine depth. A classy Pessac-Léognan, Fieuzal is very nicely rendered. Floral top notes linger effortlessly on the close. Score: 89 - 91 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2034 More austere and less luminous than recent vintages—a clear reflection of the vintage—the 2024 de Fieuzal is showing remarkably well within its context. Evoking dark berries, cassis, flowers and lead pencil, it's medium to full-bodied, sappy and layered with a delicate, precise mid-palate framed by velvety tannins and concluding with a delicate, saline finish. This blend of 45% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Petit Verdot has clearly benefited from Stephen Carrier’s patient “wait-for-maturity” approach. Score: 91 - 93 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027 - 2040 Medium intensity cherry red, slate and crayon texture, well handled, austere, but structured, you can see the slow build of muscles through the palate, and the deepening black fruit character. Softly spoken compared to many vintages of this excellent wine, but there are layers here, good complexity, and skilful construction. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2027-2036 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Figeac | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 95 | 93-96 | - | |
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Silky and aromatic, with velvety tannins, the 2024 Figeac is sublime. Floral and savory aromatics meld into a core of blue/purplish fruit, spice, licorice, lavender and menthol. All the elements are so well balanced. The blend is 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot and 28% Cabernet Franc, with 8% press wines. Not surprisingly, the 2024 is a very Cabernet-driven Figeac. Production is 60,000 bottles, or 50% of normal, because of low yields and further selection in the cellar. Tasted two times. Score: 93 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 Vivid plum and ruby colour, clear ripe raspberry and damson fruits, sappy quality, fine tannins. The Cabernet Franc slowly unfurls its floral waves, violets and iris, with white flowers, savoury black fruits, good energy and length. Figeac has shown over and over again that it can deliver wines that succeed and delight in many different kinds of vintage conditions, and it is an estate to have confidence in. 31hl/ha yield, 100% new oak, 8% press, 3.66pH. 31hl/ha yield. They deleafed on both sides for the first time since technical director Romain Jean-Pierre arrived 13 years ago. Harvest September 20 to October 5. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2046 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Giscours | Margaux | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93 | 94 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Giscours is impressive. Elegant and sleek, with fine balance, Giscours is all class. The bouquet alone is so enticing. Small red berry fruit, spice, tobacco, mint and cedar are all finely sketched in a mid-weight, nervy Giscours that is quite showy right out of the gate. There is a bit of edginess in the tannins, but that's not anything that can't be addressed with élevage. A closing burst of aromatics leaves a long-lasting impression. Tasted three times. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 The 2024 Giscours has turned out very well indeed. Offering up incipiently complex aromas of dark berries and cherries mingled with orange zest, licorice, violets and burning embers, it's medium to full-bodied, with good density and richness, with a layered, rather muscular palate and a long, expansive finish. The 2024 is a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot. The estate retained cover crops to amplify the dry conditions in July and August, accelerating ripening, and once again picked by vine age within blocks, bringing in the younger-vine fruit earlier before it could rot. Merlot came in between 19 and 28 September, and the Cabernet Sauvignon was picked very late, between 1 and 11 October. Score: 93 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Plush, impressive colour, with medium to full intensity inky plum. Good quality, feels like a true En Primeur sample with its fragrance, austerity, well built tannins, impressive, sappy, savoury and understated black fruits. Will take its time to show the fragrant heart of Margaux, but it's in there. Alex Van der Beek director. Famille Albada Jelgersma. 35 hl/ha yield. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Gloria | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 88-90 | 93 | 89-91 | - | |
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The 2024 Gloria is soft, fruity and very easy to like. Sweet red cherry/plum fruit, rose petal, lavender and mocha are nicely pushed forward. Gloria is very nicely balanced. It's a real charmer in 2024. Score: 89 - 91 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2034 Aromas of blackberries, cassis and toasty oak introduce the 2024 Gloria, a medium-bodied, lively wine built around youthfully chalky tannins. Score: 88 - 90 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Medium to full intensity deep plum colour, lovely spice, textured graphite, pumice, powerful and sculpted bright fruits, this is thoroughly enjoyable, a real success in a vintage.Triaud family owners, 34 hl/ha yield. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Grand Puy Lacoste | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | 93 | 91-93 | - | |
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Plump and juicy, the 2024 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is pure charm. This is an especially soft, fruity Grand-Puy-Lacoste with good aromatic presence and fine freshness, if not quite the depth or complexity of the very best years. Floral overtones lift the finish effortlessly. This is a delicate, understated Pauillac that will drink well with minimal cellaring. The balance between the 13% alcohol and 70% new oak is sublime. I won't be surprised if the 2024 turns out to be even better from bottle, especially if it gains a bit of mid-palate pliancy in barrel. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2054 A blend of 78% Cabernet Sauvignon and 22% Merlot, maturing in 70% new barriques, the 2024 Grand-Puy-Lacoste offers up notes of blackcurrants, pencil shavings, iris and oak, followed by a medium-bodied, pretty palate built around a delicate core of fruit and lively acids, its powdery structuring tannins asserting themselves with gentle grip on the finish. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Medium to full intensity inky plum colour, cold campfire and grilled cedar on the opening with vibrant plum fruits alongside, good quality, on the fresh side, but savoury and sappy with plenty of lift. 70% new oak for 17 months ageing. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Gruaud Larose | St Julien | £258 | 6x75cl | New | - | - | 92-94 | 93 | 92-94 | - |
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The 2024 Gruaud Larose is very fine. Dark and ample, with gorgeous presence, the 2024 has so much to offer. Dark blue/purplish fruit, new leather, gravel, spice, lavender and dried herbs build effortlessly. Readers will find a Saint-Julien endowed with notable textural depth. The finish is perhaps just a touch narrow, but élevage may very well help with that. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Gruaud Larose shows excellent potential, bursting with notes of cassis, pencil shavings, iris and violets. Medium to full-bodied, suave and seamless, it's ample and pure, with a precise, refined pro-life and good persistence on the finish. A blend of 81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc, it is the fruit of a growing season defined by fully 30 organic phytosanitary treatments and a harvest that concluded on October 8. It checks in at 12.4% alcohol and pH 3.77 (for Gruaud, a rather low number). Score: 92 - 94 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Gorgeous dark ruby colour with vivid reflections, slow and steady reveal of grilled earth, savoury rose bud, peony, black tea and floral Cabernet finesse. This is a little softer than the recent exceptional vintages of Gruaud, but the fragrant aromatics have a ton of charm, and this shows skilful construction. Harvest 27 September to 8 October, 3.55pH, 31hl/h yield, slap bang on the appellation average, organic certified. 40% of production in this 1st wine. 95% new oak for ageing. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2040 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Guiraud | Sauternes/Barsac | £240 | 12x37.5cl | New | - | - | - | 94 | 94-96 | - |
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The 2024 Guiraud is a bold, luscious Sauternes. Apricot jam, chamomile, passion fruit, spice and burnt sugar convey notable intensity to match the wine's creamy, ample feel. Guiraud is a rich, heady Sauternes, but all the elements are impeccably balanced. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2044 Dark burnt orange gold, spiralling white flower aromatics, this is great quality, thoroughly enjoyable, subtle spiced cumin and tumeric, sweetly succulent apricot and nectarine juice without being heavy. 12.6 hl/ha yield, Sandrine Garbay estate director. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2038 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Haut Bailly | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 93 | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Haut-Bailly is an elegant, classy wine. Soft, sensual contours lend notable charm. The 2024 is an especially aromatic, perfumed Haut-Bailly. Its mid-weight structure is best described as Burgundian, for lack of a better term. Silky tannins frame it all in style. Readers should expect a decidedly understated, quiet Haut-Bailly. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2054 I tasted the 2024 Haut-Bailly twice and found it hard to understand. Judgement reserved until after bottling. Score: - William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027 - 2040 Savoury, precise and poised, with lovely texture, softly spoken with high floral aromatics, rose petals, peony, fine tannins, drawn out character, long slow build of tension through the palate, unrolling to show white truffle and mint leaf. Tannic grip, estate signature, more softly spoken than in recent vintages, but Haut-Bailly has proved over and over again that it is capable of delivering over the long term, and that it delivers excellence even in challenging vintages - an upscore potential in bottle. Harvest 18 September to 4 October, 30hl/h yield. Gabriel Vialard technical director. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Haut Batailley | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 87-89 | 92 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Haut-Batailley races across the palate with masses of dark fruit, menthol, licorice, espresso and dried herbs. Floral overtones reappear on the finish, adding a refined touch. Powerful yet polished, the 2024 is quite impressive. This feels a bit less extracted than the first vintages under the leadership of the Cazes family, not a bad thing at all in my view. Very fine. Tasted two times. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Haut-Batailley offers up aroma of cherries, kirsch and petroleum jelly, followed by a medium-bodied, chunky and tannic palate. Score: 87 - 89 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Deep vibrant plum purple colour, liquorice bud, cassis bud, spiced blackberry and sage, fresh with austerity but balanced by juice running through the palate, well handled. 60% new oak. 3.63 pH, harvest September 25 to October 8. 90% of the estate's 50 year old vines are in here, plus the more recent Petit Verdot plantings. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Haut Brion | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | 94 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Haut-Brion is dark and brooding in demeanor, but obviously not as tannic or forbidding as it can be in the early going. All the Haut-Brion signatures are very much present, but they're portrayed in a decidedly understated style that speaks to the personality of the year. Black fruit, scorched earth, spice, tobacco and leather build with time in the glass. The 2024 is a super-classy Haut-Brion. There's gorgeous substance here. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Haut-Brion is more perfumed than La Mission Haut-Brion, unfurling in the glass with aromas of raspberries, cassis, dark berries and spices mingled with elegantly floral touches. Medium to full-bodied, layered and sappy, it has a firm texture and powdery tannins, leading to a long, spicy and lead pencil-inflected finish. Composed of 47.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37.5% Merlot and 15.3% Cabernet Franc, this vintage features one of the highest proportions of Cabernet Franc in recent years—comparable to vintages such as 1993, 2004, 2010, 2011 and 2020—and should gain harmony with the élevage. In the context of the vintage, this is a notable success, owing in large part to Haut-Brion’s intramural position in Pessac, where the estate’s terroir benefits from slightly warmer average temperatures than properties located outside the city, contributing to more complete ripening of the grapes. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2028 - 2044 Medium to full intensity, takes its time to open, this is carefully built, slow and steady in its expression, textured, restrained, cocoa bean, espresso, redcurrant, orchard, sage, bilberry. Very much a classical style of Haut-Brion that will I am sure give great pleasure after a decade in bottle - not as monumental as some, but don't count this out - there are all the bones of this exceptional wine, and the tannic architecture will widen over ageing. 1.7% press, 75% new oak, 26hl/h yield, Jean-Pierre Masclef technical director and Jean-Pierre Delmas estate director. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Haut Brion Blanc | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-94 | 95 | 95-97 | - | |
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The 2024 Haut-Brion Blanc is seamless and textured in the glass. Silky and creamy in feel, with fabulous balance, Haut-Brion Blanc is shaping up to be one of the wines of the vintage. Marzipan, chamomile, spice, lemon confit and a kiss of French oak are all beautifully woven together. The long, sustained finish is a thing of beauty. Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2039 A blend of 56.1% Sémillon and 43.9% Sauvignon Blanc, the 2024 Haut-Brion Blanc reveals a complex, dense bouquet of smoke, iodine, white fruits and flowers mingled with delicate notes of citrus zest. Medium to full-bodied, it has a sappy and layered palate that's perfectly integrated, with a long, saline and ethereal finish. This vintage beautifully reconciles the intrinsic power of the terroir with the slow ripening of the growing season, resulting in a wine of remarkable finesse and vibrant white-fruited energy. Score: 93 - 94 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027 - 2050 Palest gold in colour, beautiful quality, has intensity and grip, it hugs on to the palate, delivering white peaches, pear, apple orchard, fragrant and charming, with a sweet apricot puree and bitter fennel on the finish. Acidity and structure a little more pronounced here than on La Mission, clearly will go the distance, if a touch less charming right now. 40% new oak, harvest September 2 to 10. 3.22ph. 38hl/h yield Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2038 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Issan | Margaux | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | 93 | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 d'Issan is pretty closed in on itself. Issan is usually a showier wine at this stage, but the 2024 is decidedly virile, almost somber in feel. Floral, spice and earthy notes open with some coaxing, and yet the Grand Vin is only showing a fraction of what it has to offer. I do admire its strong character, however. The 2024 will be a fascinating Issan to follow. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 D'Issan wafts from the glass with attractive aromas of cassis, burning embers, pipe tobacco and violets. Medium-bodied, pillowy and lively, with a sweet core of fruit framed by powdery tannins, it's an elegant, fine-boned Margaux that will offer a broad drinking window. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Lovely deep rich if savoury and precisely-carved rube red fruits on the opening. This is a serious Issan, well structured with waves of crushed roses, rose buds, crayon and saffron. Slim and savoury with enjoyable finesse. Harvest 26 September to 8 October. 3.58 pH. 50% new oak. Éric Pellon technical director, Eric Boissenot consultant. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | La Chenade | Lalande de Pomerol | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 85-87 | 88 | 90-93 | - | |
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The 2024 La Chenade is gorgeous. Deep, pliant and textured, the 2024 has so much to offer Dark red fruit, mocha, espresso, lavender and licorice all meld together in a sumptuous, beautifully layered Lalande-de-Pomerol that hits all the right notes. Floral and citrus overtones perk up the vibrant finish. Score: 90 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2034 A blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 La Chenade offers up aromas of pepper, pencil shavings, dark berries and licorice. Medium-bodied, structured and firm, it's layered with a good chassis of tannins built around tangy acids, concluding with a grippy, short finish. Score: 85 - 87 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2025 - 2030 Redcurrant, blueberry and white pepper, with gentle earthy notes. Less 'Pomerol-adjacent' than in some vintages, but this has charm, and a sense of precision and lift, 35hl/h yield after hail. No chaptilisation, harvest September 22 to 28, 57% new oak. Score: 88 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | La Gaffeliere | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 93 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 La Gaffelière confirms its place as one of the top properties in Saint-Émilion in this challenging vintage. Bright and dynamic in the glass, with terrific persistence, the 2024 sizzles with tension. Crushed flowers, mint, lavender and crushed rocks open in the glass. The finesse of the tannins is impossible to miss. The 2024 is not a huge wine, but its finesse is evident. Blue/purplish fruit, slate and clean mineral overtones extend the long, sculpted finish. Tasted three times. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 Smoky oak impact on the opening, dense fruit to accompany, with lilac and iris, chalky palma violets, good quality and texture, cloves and cassis. Austerity comes in pretty strongly through the mid palate, this is one to look out for after ageing, and is a potential upscore in bottle. Third vintage since they stepped back from the classification. Harvest 25 September to 7 October. 50% new oak. Tasted twice. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Lafaurie Peyraguey | Sauternes/Barsac | ---- | 12x37.5cl | - | - | - | 94 | - | - | |
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Apple crumble, saffron, mango, pineapple, bitter orange peel without being overpowering, sharp, well balanced, great quality, one to sink into and share with friends. Silvio Denz owner, 12 hl/ha yield. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2038 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Lafite Rothschild | Pauillac | £1,713 | 6x75cl | New | - | - | 91-94 | 95 | 94-96 | - |
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The 2024 Lafite-Rothschild is a sensual, elegant wine very much in the style of the year. Plush and enveloping, with lovely forward fruit, the 2024 is very Lafite, perhaps a bit reticent, but super-expressive just the same. Black cherry, pomegranate, blood orange and a kiss of espresso all build in the glass, framed by quintessentially finessed Lafite tannins. The 2024 is sublime. I expect it will be one of the to be one of the top wines in the Médoc when all is said and done. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2064 A blend of 96% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2024 Lafite Rothschild offers up aromas of minty blackcurrants, violets, incense, loamy soil and cigar box, followed by a medium-bodied, pillowy and open-knit palate built around tangy acids and powdery tannins, concluding with a discreetly herbal finish. Harvest began on September 24 and concluded on October 4, delivering a Lafite in something of a throwback style, nodding to the wines made here in the 1970s. Score: 91 - 94 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Rich texture, this stands head and shoulders above many in the vintage, with graphite, crayon, cassis bud rather than exuberant black fruits, this is precise, savoury, delineated, floral, gunsmoke, juicy, captures the effortless elegance that Lafite does so so well, and it totally delivers. Harvest 23 September to 7 October, 32hl/h yield, above the Pauillac average, 16% press wine included in the blend. Director Eric Kohler's 33rd year in Pauillac. I am giving a slightly earlier begin drinking date, but I am certain this will age exceptionally well as Lafite always does. Slightly earlier starting date for drinking than usual, eight years following harvest. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2050 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Lafon Rochet | St Estephe | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 87-89 | 91 | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Lafon-Rochet is sleek, elegant and polished, as it so often is. Silky tannins and lifted floral overtones are immediately alluring. Soft but persistent, with fine balance, the 2024 has a lot to offer. Punchy red/purplish fruit, blood orange, spice and new leather are beautifully delineated. There's a high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in this vintage, and yet it is the personality of site that speaks loudest. Lafon-Rochet is always a bit lithe. That quality is present in 2024, although a second sample showed more overt body. Tasted two times. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2044 The 2024 Lafon-Rochet offers up aromas of pipe tobacco, sweet berries and fresh herbs, followed by a medium-bodied, soft and open-knit palate. Score: 87 - 89 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com This is juicy, drawn out, balanced, elegant, showing lean black fruits laced with fennel and anis, plenty of slate tannins, just a little leafy on the finish. 3.67 pH. 40% new oak, highest proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon on record. Score: 91 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Lagrange (St Julien) | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | 93 | 90-93 | - | |
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The 2024 Lagrange is quite promising. Deep and vibrant in the glass, with terrific energy, Lagrange offers fine depth and plenty of harmony to match. Dark red cherry, spice, new leather, tobacco and incense resonate on the layered finish. Tasted two times. Score: 90 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2044 Notes of minty cassis, blackberries and pencil shavings introduce the 2024 Lagrange, a medium-bodied, dense wine with a sweet core of fruit framed by somewhat firm and assertive tannins. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Classically balanced St Julien, firm cassis and white peppers, enjoyable mid palate texture, slate textured tannins add grip and tension, successful in the vintage. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2045 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Langoa Barton | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 92-94 | 93 | 91-93 | - | |
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The 2024 Langoa-Barton is such a pretty wine. Floral and bright, with lovely mid-weight structure, Langoa is a total charmer. Rose petal, crushed red berry fruit, spice, orange peel and mint are beautifully lifted. Bright saline undertones extend the finish. The 2024 is a promising Langoa. Tasted two times. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2039 The 2024 Langoa Barton is showing beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet blackberries and plums mingled with notions of licorice, pencil shavings and lilac. Medium to full-bodied, with lively acids and good depth and density, it's pure and refined. This is a blend of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc, picked between 24 September and 5 October. Score: 92 - 94 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Floral peony and lilac aromatics on the Langoa, and the fruit character keeps things finessed and soft - think red cherry, cherry pit, tobacco, black tea, thoroughly charming, just a little short on the finished compared to the exceptional 2022 or 2023 vintages. The difference in the blends between the two Barton St Julien wines is significant this year, with just over 50% here of Cabernet Sauvignon compared to over 90% in Léoville. Harvest 24 September to 5 October. 60% new oak, 30hl/h yield. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Larcis Ducasse | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 94 | 94-97 | - | |
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The 2024 Larcis Ducasse is dense, powerful and imposing, almost surprisingly so. All of the wine's intensity is in the mid-palate. Black cherry, plum, mocha, lavender, chocolate and cinnamon meld together in the glass, but it is the wine's mind-blowing balance that stands out most. This is another stellar showing from Larcis Ducasse. There's real potential here. Tasted four times. Score: 94 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 Good grip, plenty of character and depth through the palate, freshly cut herbs, blueberry and blackcurrant, savoury with floral character. Harvest 24 September to 7 October. 50% new oak, Gratiot-Atimane family. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Laroque | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 93 | 88-90 | - | |
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The 2024 Laroque is a sleek, polished wine made mostly from the Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes plateau in this vintage. Silky and aromatic, with mid-weight structure, the 2024 is attractive. However, the challenges of the vintage are evident in the light mid-palate and soft finish. Élevage will be critical. Tasted two times. Score: 88 - 90 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2039 Deep plum colour, cold ash and fennel on the opening, savoury, well judged and well extracted, this is on the slim side, with the focus on cassis bud and rose petals. You probably have to be a bit of a limestone fanatic (as I am) to truly love this vintage of Laroque, because it is less gourmet than in vintages like 2022 and 2023, setting texture and minerality above fruit, but exceptionally well handled by estate director David Suire, and it should soften further ove ageing. Once again a value pick. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Larrivet Haut Brion Blanc | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 88-90 | 90 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Larrivet Haut-Brion Blanc is a potent, layered wine endowed with tremendous textural presence. Vinification and élevage in oak, with considerable bâtonnage, yields an especially rich, almost old-school-Burgundian character. This is a wine that will change perceptions about what white wines from Bordeaux are and what they can be. Tasted two times. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2027-2036 Unfurling in the glass with a gently reductive bouquet of smoke, white flowers, citrus and oak, the 2024 Larrivet Haut-Brion Blanc is medium-bodied, supple and juicy with a sappy attack and a long, elegant finish despite some clove notes in the aftertaste. Score: 88 - 90 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2032 Reductive nose, very much on the lees fermentation and ageing, this shows gunsmoke, steel, apricot, elderflower and white peach. The estate has over 10ha of white grapes, unusually high for the appellation, and they put it to good use here. Harvest 5 to 13 September. 70% new oak. Score: 90 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2025-2030 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Lascombes | Margaux | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | 94 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Lascombes represents another important step for Lascombes under its current leadership. Silky and elegant, with notable depth, the Grand Vin impresses with its textural resonance and persistence. New leather, licorice, lavender and incense weave through a core of dark-toned fruit. Lascombes is shaping up to be one of the sleepers of 2024. I can't wait to taste it from bottle. Impressive. Tasted three times. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 Aromas of cassis, lilac and nicely integrated creamy new oak introduce the 2024 Lascombes, a medium to full-bodied, dense and youthfully structured young wine underpinned by a bright spine of acidity and concluding with gently chewy tannins. This was cropped at 38 hectoliters per hectare and saw a combination of tank bleeds and reverse osmosis to amp up its concentration. Maturation is in 60% new oak, with lighter toasts than was formerly the case at this address. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com This has elegance, fine tannins, a clear expression of how Cabernet Sauvignon can perform in the vintage, rosebud, peony, slim, savoury, with fine and attractive aromatics, lovely salinity on the finish, nuanced and mouthwatering. Rises above the reputation of the vintage. Axel Heinz director. As of this vintage, only the original 1855 plots are in the wine Harvest 23 September to 9 October. 38 hl/ha yield, Julien Viaud consultant. Tasted twice. 60% new oak for ageing, 38 hl/ha, harvest 23 September to 9 October. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Leoville Barton | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 92-94 | 94 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Léoville Barton is a very beautiful wine. Black cherry, plum, lavender, new leather, graphite, crushed rocks, mocha and spice all meld together. A wine of classical build, Léoville Barton is also wonderfully deep and expressive. Today, all of its energy is directed inwards, but there is a lot of wine here. I can't wait to taste this from bottle. Tasted two times. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2049 A serious wine that will delight patient purists, but which also showcases the new levels of purity and precision that this estate has been attaining since completion of the new winery, the 2024 Léoville Barton is a blend of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc. Unwinding in the glass with notes of cassis, plums, pencil shavings and violets, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and impressively concentrated, with a taut but nicely integrated profile, concluding with a pure, penetrating finish. Score: 92 - 94 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Stands out for the elongated and supple shape and texture of the tannins, builds complexity over the palate and this is well structured, with elegant, finessed, savoury but carefully extracted cassis and bilberry fruits, with cocoa bean and cigar. One of the wines in the vintage with definition and ageing ability, and retains clear Léoville Barton character. Harvest 24 September to 5 October. 60% new oak for ageing. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Leoville Las Cases | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | 94 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Léoville Las-Cases is gorgeous. All the Las-Cases signatures are present, just dialed down a touch. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, grilled herbs, graphite and menthol are all beautifully delineated. The 2024 is distinguished by its precision and total class. Time in the glass brings out the wine's intensely floral, spice-inflected aromatics. Brisk acids and bracing mineral notes wrap it all together in style. I can't wait to taste this from bottle. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 One of the wines of the vintage, and certainly one that's likely to number among the longest-lived, is the 2024 Léoville Las Cases, a blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc and 5% Merlot that attained 13.1% alcohol. Unwinding in the glass with a pure, intense bouquet of cassis, violets and pencil shavings, it's medium to full-bodied, with terrific mid-palate density and concentration but also a seamless integration of tannin and acidity that's especially rare this year, concluding with a long, penetrating finish. Jean-Hubert Delon observes that the 2024 shares "the aromas and flavors of the 1986," defined by Cabernet Sauvignon ripened at the end of the growing season, though of course the 2024, lacking the huge power and structure of that vintage, is much more amiable than the 1986. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Medium to full intensity, vivid plum with vibrant violet around the rim, ink, black tea, chamomile flowers, slate, graphite, redcurrant, rose petals, cassis, bilberry, raspberry leaf, delivers the texture, tension and complexity that you expect from this level of estate in any vintage, and it is a success, reserved, slim and savoury with ageing potential. Arnaud Delon now at the estate, working alongside his father Jean-Hubert Delon. 31hl/ha yield. New cellars now in operation for the winemaking, 75% new oak. 3.60 pH. 31 hl/ha. 6.3% press wine. Harvest 30 September to 9 October. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2048 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Leoville Poyferre | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | 95 | 89-92 | - | |
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The 2024 Léoville-Poyferré offers notable brightness to match its mid-weight personality. Floral and spice notes open into a core of dark red- and black-toned fruit. Medium in body, with good persistence, the 2024 is an understated Léoville-Poyferré. Today, it feels a bit compact, which also attenuates the fruit to some degree. Score: 89 - 92 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 Offering up aromas of jammy berries and toasty oak, the 2024 Léoville Poyferré is a blend of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot. Medium-bodied, dense and blocky, it's firm, tannic and chewy, with some green characteristics vying with its creamy patina of new wood. Harvest took place between 24 September and 10 October, and some lots saw some reverse osmosis. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Impressive texture, slate wrapped in silky tannins, with real depth of flavour, black cherry and damson fruit, no dip through the mid palate, and a long finish. Maintains estate signature, shows generosity and confidence, one of the wines of the vintage. Alix Combe vineyard director, Isabelle David oenologist. Harvest 24 September to 10 October. 3.71 pH. 26.42 hl/ha. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2048 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Les Cruzelles | Lalande de Pomerol | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 85-87 | 91 | 91-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Les Cruzelles is laced with blue/purplish fruit, cloves, licorice, menthol, incense and gravel. Ample and broad, with terrific resonance, the 2024 is super-expressive right out of the gate. There's gorgeous resonance and fine balance here. Score: 91 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2036 The 2024 Les Cruzelles is shy and introverted, offering up aromas of pepper, oak and incense. Moderately weighted, supple and lively, it's built around tangy acids and powdery tannins. Score: 85 - 87 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2030 There is austerity here, as is classic in the vintage, but beautifully handled and balanced, with muscles, touch of cloves and again this white pepper character, with white plum, fine tannins, mouth-watering salinity on the finish. No chaptilisation, 57% new oak for ageing. Score: 91 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Lynch Bages | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 87-89 | 94 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Lynch-Bages is packed. Cedar, scorched earth, licorice, incense and pipe tobacco weave through a core of dark, sepia-toned fruit. I especially admire the long, polished finish and overall balance here. The 2024 is a virile Lynch Bages with a bright future. Tasted two times. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 Cropped at 30 hectoliters per hectare (the lowest yield at this address since 1991), the 2024 Lynch-Bages is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc. Opening in the glass with aromas of minty berries and creamy new oak, it's medium to full-bodied, dense and heavily extracted, with firm, chalky tannins that assert themselves on the mouth-puckering finish. Lynch-Bages has historically performed well in challenging vintages, but the 2024 will demand considerable patience. Score: 87 - 89 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Ruby with violet edging, opens to show chalk and slate tannins, giving a sense of restraint and grip, this is savoury and juicy with plenty of cassis fruits, delivers Pauillac consistency in an inconsistent vintage, and also it is just rather delicious. 75% new oak. 3.67 pH, Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Margaux | Margaux | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | 96 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Château Margaux is quite soft and delicate. It shows fine delineation in its aromatics and on the palate, but it's distinctly on the lighter side, even for Château Margaux. The mid-palate and finish are a touch compact, while there is a bit of edginess in the tannins that needs time to resolve. Bright acids and the lack of fruit pliancy expose the tannins at this stage. Élevage will be everything. Château Margaux is a bit of a question mark. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Château Margaux has turned out beautifully, unfurling in the glass with notes of cassis, violets, cigar box and iris. Medium to full-bodied, deep and vibrant, with excellent density and concentration for the vintage, it's lively and layered, concluding with a long, penetrating finish. This is a serious, youthfully tightly wound blend of 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc that attained 12.8% alcohol. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Such a floral wine, aromatics that really take hold and grip on through the palate, raspberry, black cherry, edges of rosebud, chalk, white tea, crayon, chalk, iris, has real precision, and a slow-burn unspooling of flavours, salted cracker salinity on the finish. 46% of the overall production is in Château Margaux, 30hl/ha yield after sorting through the year as needed. Harvest September 23 to October 8. Philippe Bascaules director, 3.62ph. Excellent quality, one of the wines of the vintage, with a slightly earlier starting date for drinking than usual, eight years following harvest. Score: 96 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2050 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Mission Haut Brion | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | 94 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion is such a classy wine. Strong floral and savory notes meld into a core of plum, blackberry, gravel, spice, leather, tobacco and incense. Medium in body, with no hard edges, the 2024 is a delight. It offers lovely freshness and energy throughout. There is a bit of graininess in the tannin, a reminder of the challenges of the growing season. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2039 Notes of dark berries, spices, mulberries and discreet hints of new oak preface the 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion, a medium to full-bodied, dense and attractively seamless wine for the vintage, with a textural mid-palate that's underpinned by a firm chassis of tannins, concluding with a long, broad and rather ripe finish. Slightly austere at this stage, it is likely to flesh out with élevage, developing into a structured and serious La Mission with promising aging potential. Like its sibling Haut-Brion, the estate benefited from its intramural location in Pessac, which allowed for more complete ripening in a year that posed greater challenges for some other Pessac-Léognan properties. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027 - 2044 Medium to full intensity, vibrant plum colour, this is elegant and balanced, with the same juicy orchard apple character that you find in La Chapelle, along with cloves, incense, slate, crayon and baking spice, lots of complexity and balance. The aromatics are a little subdued right now but this has ageing ability and estate signature. 5.3 press, 75% new oak, 26hl/h yield. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Mission Haut Brion Blanc | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | - | - | - | |
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The 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc reveals a gently reductive bouquet of pear, white peach, confit citrus and verbena mingled with exotic anise touches that emerge with time in the glass. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered, it's bright and enveloping with an elegantly phenolic mid-palate and a mouthwateringly mordant finish. This is a blend of 59% Sémillon and 41% Sauvignon Blanc. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley Maturity: 2027 - 2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Montlandrie | Cotes de Castillon | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 91 | 91-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Montlandrie is a potent, deep wine with strong Cabernet character. Dried herbs, licorice, menthol, lavender and blue/purplish Merlot fruit all race across the palate before Cabernet Sauvignon tannins come alive to frame the potent, explosive finish. Superb. Score: 91 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2039 Plum ruby colour, medium intensity, white pepper and cloves, gentle but insistent lift through the palate, very much on the textural side of the vintage, more austere than in recent years but still full of character and charm, no chaptilisation, 42% new oak, harvest September 26 to October 5, winemaker Noêmie Durantou. Tasted twice. Score: 91 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2035 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Montrose | St Estephe | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | 95 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Montrose exudes Cabernet Sauvignon character in its aromatic savoriness and tannic structure. In fact, the 2024 has the most Cabernet Sauvignon ever. Tightly wound today, the 2024 impresses with its energy and focus. There's a bit less mid-palate and overall heft than most years, as well as a brighter fruit profile. Floral, spice and mineral overtones lend brightness throughout. The 2024 is a super-classic, nervy Montrose that will need a number of years to be at its most expressive. Aging is projected to be 18 months, with 60% new oak. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2064 A blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 Montrose is a serious, muscular effort that numbers among the wines of the vintage. Unwinding in the glass with notes of cassis, burning embers, cigar wrapper and iris, it's medium to full-bodied, dense and layered, with a lively spine of acidity, rich structuring tannins and a long, penetrating finish. With both the highest proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon recorded at Montrose and a rather low pH of 3.55, it will surely number among the longest lived 2024 Bordeaux. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Beautifully deep colour, this shows chalk, violet flowers, peony, fragrant and enticing floral profile compared to so many in the vintage, this is excellent, cocoa bean, cassis, depth, layers and concentration - one of the wines of the vintage. 15% press wine, a little more than usual. Harvest 23 September to 8 October, Pierre Grafeuille estate director. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2050 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Palmer | Margaux | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | 94 | 94-97 | - | |
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The 2024 Palmer is wonderfully vivid and expressive. Strong Cabernet Sauvignon inflections make a strong first impression. Blue/purplish fruit, gravel, lavender, incense, licorice and dried herbs all jump from the glass. I imagine the 2024 will drink well on release, which is uncharacteristic for young Palmer. Readers will find a gorgeous wine with tons of character and pedigree to burn. Palmer remains one of the most distinctive wines in all of Bordeaux. Score: 94 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Palmer is shaping up beautifully and stands out as one of the wines of the vintage in the Médoc. Wafting from the glass with aromas of crème de cassis, plums, cigar wrapper and iris, it's medium to full-bodied, velvety and enveloping, with good depth at the core, sweet structuring tannins and a long, precise finish. Uniting charm with seriousness, this blend of 59% Cabernet Sauvignon and 41% Merlot is the quintessential Palmer. Yields after sorting worked out at 22 hectoliters per hectare. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Medium intensity, inky colour and some delicious sappy fruits. Stretched out, sinewy, lean muscles, charcoal, slate, peony, gunsmoke, hugely engaging texture with salinity, and a mouthwatering finish. Easy to recommend, love it. Harvest 25 September to 10 October, 3.7ph, first year ageing in barrels, second in larger oak casks. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 Score: - |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pape Clement | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | - | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Pape Clément is unusual in that Cabernet Sauvignon drives the blend. That is evident in the wine's strong savory profile and overall structural feel. A reduction in the oak imprint emphasizes fruit and overall vibrancy. The 2024 is not as showy or easy to taste as most vintages, but the style here has also undergone a pretty radical transformation. It was vinified in oak, steel and concrete. A significant portion of the wine saw malolactic fermentation in tank rather than oak, as had been the case in the past. That adds up to a vibrant, nervy Pape Clément that represents a new era here. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2034-2054 A smoky, oaky bouquet of spices, incense and dark berries prefaces the 2024 Pape Clément, a moderately weighted, supple and open-knit palate built around tangy acids and brittle tannins. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2032 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pape Clement Blanc | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | 93 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Pape Clément Blanc is stellar. Rich and deep, the 2024 stands out because of its textural density and almost phenolic feel. The 2024 is being raised in 50% oak (one-third new), 40% foudre and 10% a mix of ceramic, cement and stainless steel. Citrus confit, dried herbs, white pepper and chalk build as this imposing, structured white shows off its distinctive personality. Tasted four times. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2036 The 2024 Pape Clément Blanc emerges from the glass with aromas of pear, confit citrus, lime and herbs, followed by a moderately weighted, supple and lively palate built around tangy acids that culminate in a fresh, fruity finish. Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2034 Appealingly ripe and luscious fruit, apricot, citrus blossom, slate texture, no need to wait but it will age, great length on the finish, sage and lemongrass, great quality. Harvest 4 to 19 September. 41 hl/ha. 12 months of ageing in barrels and amphoras Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2025-2030 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pavie | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 94 | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Pavie is potent and explosive to the core. Blackberry, espresso, licorice, cloves and leather are dialed up to the maximum. The 2024 is an imposing, brawny Pavie that is likely to need a bit of time to be at its most expressive. Today, the 2024 is quite the bruiser, especially in terms of its tannin profile. Like so many wines in 2024, the balance here is on the razor's edge, suggesting that élevage will be critical, especially in terms of preserving the wine's fruit. Aging is 65% new oak and 35% once-used barrels, in other words, on the lower side in terms of new oak at this address. Tasted two times. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 There is no better way to discover the power of the Pavie terroir than to see how it has peformed in 2024 - a naturally cooler and slimmer vintage, and yet you still have a wine here that has depth, energy, intensity and concentration, squid ink, fennel, oyster shell salinity. The fruit is sappy, for sure a brighter and slimmer version of Pavie compared to many vintages but this is still unmistakeable estate signature. 42ha in production, now including Pavie Decesse and Bellevue Mondotte (as of 2022). 24hl/h yield, September 27 to October 9, 3.69 pH. 65% new oak, with lower toast. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2031-2046 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pavie Macquin | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 94 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Pavie Macquin is positively gorgeous. Silky, layered and voluptuous, the 2024 is so impressive right out of the gate. Plush contours wrap around a core of purplish fruit, lavender, licorice, spice, menthol and chocolate. All the signatures of this site come through loud and clear. Savory and floral notes supported by clean veins of salinity extend the persistent finish. Pavie Macquin shows what was possible in 2024. The choice to harvest everything in October (from the 3rd to the 8th) paid off big time. Aging is in French oak, with about 15% in larger 500-liter barrels, 45% new wood overall. Tasted three times. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 Up on the limestone plateau of St Emilion, the whole game in 2024 has been how to handle the austerity without rendering things too tight. Here they have got the balance right - delicate, sappy, drawn out, vivid blackberry and cassis fruits with hidden density, nothing overt but plenty of power and grip. 3.3ph, harvest 3 to 8 October. 42 hl/ha, touch of saignée. Harvesting entirely in October, from 3 to 8, Stéphane Derenoncourt consultant with Nicolas Thienpont. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pavillon Blanc du Chateau Margaux | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 97 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Pavillon Blanc was picked between September 2 and 8. Airy, crisp and bright, the 2024 dazzles with its mineral-drenched tension and cut. Orchard fruit, citrus peel, white pepper, mint and slate lend notable brightness. The 2024 is distinguished by a compelling interplay of vibrancy and a feeling of textural richness that is so complementary. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2039 Anis, fennel, white tea, citrus, lemon zest, kiwi, slate, a balanced and generous nose, and a ton of juicy mouthwatering waves that hit pretty much immediately, and keep on coming. 20% new oak, in 400l casks. Perhaps ready to drink a little earlier than the 2021 - this is generous and deliciously sappy and appealin. Harvest 2 to 8 September, 3.2ph. Philippe Bascaules estate director. Score: 97 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2038 Entirely crafted from Sauvignon Blanc, the 2024 Pavillon Blanc reveals a delicate bouquet of confit citrus, boxwood, pear and spices. Medium to full-bodied, seamless and layered, it's built around bright acids and a lively mid-palate that segues into a fresh and herb-inflected finish. This is a slightly more opulent and expressive rendition compared to the more restrained 2021 and 2017 vintages. Score: 93 - 94 Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pavillon Rouge du Chateau Margaux (2nd wine of Ch Margaux) | Margaux | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-93 | 93 | 89-91 | - | |
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The 2024 Pavillon Rouge is a very pretty wine that represents 28% of the château's production. Intensely floral and medium in body, the 2024 is quite gracious. Spice, crushed flowers and bright red-toned fruit are nicely delineated in a mid-weight, classy Pavillon. The blend is very much Cabernet Sauvignon-driven, as the Merlot suffered more. Score: 89 - 91 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2039 Incorporating more Cabernet Franc (as recent plantings mature) and more Cabernet Sauvignon than usual, the 2024 Pavillon Rouge du Château Margaux unwinds in the glass with aromas of sweet cassis, red berries, vanilla pod and violets, followed by a medium to full-bodied, deep and lively palate with good density, powdery tannins and lively acids. It checks in at 12.9% alcohol. Score: 90 - 93 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com High floral aromatics on the nose, marked by peony, white roses, lilac, chalky tannins, lovely purity of expression, complex aromatics that reflect berry fruits that are ripe without being heavy, with focus and precision. 3.62ph, 12.5% press wine, 30hl/h yield after sorting. Harvest September 23 to October 8. Less Merlot than usual both in Pavillon and in Margaux, and more Cabernet Franc (9%) in this, as a result of plantings a decade ago. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pedesclaux | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 92 | 92-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Pédesclaux is one of the finest wines I have tasted here in some time. The move to increase the Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend over the last 15 years is starting to pay some serious dividends. Expressive savory notes lead into blue/purplish fruit, lavender, sage, menthol and grilled herbs. This is beautifully done. Tasted two times. Score: 92 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2039 Cloves and white truffle dominate the opening moments of the wine, and this is sappy and slatey with plenty of bright blueberry and red cherry fruits, good depth and texture. A lovely wine, if shorter through the finish than in recent vintages. Harvest 24 September to 19 October. 3.66 pH. 30% new oak for ageing. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 More introverted and brooding than the previous vintages, the 2024 Pedésclaux reveals aromas of licorice, spices, oak and cassis mingled with notes of green bell pepper. Medium-bodied, supple and layered, it's lively with tangy acids and a firm chassis of tannins that lead to a short, spicy finish. This blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot is a rather compact Pédesclaux. Score: 86 - 87 Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Petit Mouton (2nd wine of Mouton Rothschild) | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 87-89 | 93 | 90-92 | - | |
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The 2024 Le Petit-Mouton is a dark, brooding wine. Dark red fruit, pomegranate, gravel, incense, leather and scorched earth contribute to a feeling of somber gravitas. Low yields, as measured by bunches per shoot, come through in the wine's density and power. The 13% alcohol is super-classic. The 2024 is shaping up to be a very serious wine. Score: 90 - 92 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2036 The 2024 Le Petit Mouton offers up aromas of crème de cassis and toasty new oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, taut and chunky palate built around tangy acids and chalky tannins. Score: 87 - 89 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Here you get that sexy Petit Mouton kick, defined by Cabernet, less exuberant profile than in recent years and yet great texture and lift, supple blackberry fruits, cocoa bean lacing. Very much succeeding in the vintage without compromising the heart of the estate signature. Jean-Emmanuel Danjoy director. Harvest 23 September to 5 October. 3.62 pH. 50% new oak. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Petite Eglise (2nd label of Eglise Clinet) | Pomerol | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 88-90 | 93 | 91-93 | - | |
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The 2024 La Petite Eglise is really in a class by itself when it comes to the second wines of Pomerol. Dark and sumptuous in the glass, the 2024 exudes attractive inner perfume and fabulous balance. Inky dark red fruit, pomegranate lavender, spice, menthol, incense and rose petal stain the palate. This racy, striking Pomerol is lights out. I would be thrilled to own it. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2034 A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 La Petite Eglise offers up aromas of dark berries, spices and licorice, followed by a medium-bodied, compact palate with tangy acids and firm structuring tannins. Score: 88 - 90 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2032 The colour here is vibrant ruby and violet, this has so much precision and energy, sapidy, cherry pit, violets, again the textural side of the vintage is at the fore, coffee beans, espresso and black chocolate, notes that I have not written in many wines this year, No chaptilisation, 3.62ph, 70% new oak, harvest september 20 to 28. Love this, has a sense of vibration that might make this the 2nd wine of the vintage. If this comes out at a good price, run don't walk, as they say. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Phelan Segur | St Estephe | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 92 | 92-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Phélan Ségur is an absolute delight. Dark and ample, the 2024 offers up a compelling mix of black cherry, leather, game, incense, licorice, gravel and pipe tobacco. All the elements are so well balanced. The blend is 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 2% Petit Verdot, in other words, a very high percentage of Cabernet. That comes through nicely in the wine's aromatic finish. Phélan Ségur is shaping up to be one of the highlights of the year. Tasted four times. Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2039 Austere opening, you feel the shape and length of the tannins, well placed and skilfully constructed, with slim Cabernet floral rose petals and peony notes alongside savoury bilberry fruit, touch of liquorice bud and fresh juice on this finish. Finessed, drawn out, expertly constructed. Harvest 30 September to 14 October. 30 hl/ha. 55% new oak. 3.72 pH, Veronique Dausse director. Tasted twice. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pichon Baron | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90 | 94 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Pichon Baron is a very sexy wine. Deep and layered on the palate, with fine depth, the 2024 exudes balance. Sumptuous black cherry, mocha, new leather, licorice, menthol, lavender and pine are all dialed up. There's gorgeous breadth and overall presence here. The Cabernet Sauvignon is quite high at 87%, but it is really the wine's balance that speaks loudest. Here, too, the reduction of new oak to 70% really helps the wine speak with precision. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Pichon-Longueville Baron opens in the glass with aromas of cassis, blackberries, cigar wrappers and pencil shavings. Medium to full-bodied, lively and layered, with a dense core of fruit, tangy acids and powdery tannins, this blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon and 13% Merlot is a serious young Pauillac that will demand patience. Score: 90 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Majors on the fragrant, slim and precise side of Cabernet Sauvignon, waves of cassis bud, rose stems, tobacco leaf and a mouthwatering finish. Don't expect the intensity of 2022 or 2023 at this excellent Pauillac estate, and yet there is impact and slow build through the palate. One of the highest proportions of Cabernet Sauvignon on record, will be ready to drink within five to six years compared to the usual ten to 15. 3.71pH, 70% new oak for ageing, 52% of overall production in the first wine. Harvest 15 September to 10 October, Pierre Montegut technical director, Christian Seely CEO. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2048 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pichon Comtesse Reserve (2nd Wine Pichon Lalande) | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 87-89 | 92 | 91-93 | - | |
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The 2024 Réserve de la Comtesse is a very racy, sexy wine. Crushed flowers, mint, lavender, new leather, mocha and spice all grace this exquisite, wonderfully nuanced Réserve. All the elements are so well balanced. Silky tannins add to the wine's total feeling of finesse, but the aromatics are just as inviting. Tasted three times. Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2039 A blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 Resèrve de la Comtesse offers up aromas of minty cassis, plums and licorice, followed by a medium-bodied, ample and velvety palate that emphasizes upfront charm. Score: 87 - 89 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Unusually austere on the opening for this highly consistent wine, but things builds slowly but surely, expanding through the mid palate to show chalk, crayon, cassis and cocoa bean, grilled herbs. 48% of overall production in the Pichon Comtesse Reserve, 3.7 pH. IPT 65, 50% new oak for ageing, 15% press wine. Score: 92 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2038 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pichon Lalande | Pauillac | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 91-93 | 94 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is plush, sensual and inviting. Succulent dark-toned fruit, sweet spice, new leather, mocha, chocolate and lavender build nicely. Here, too, the tannins are so polished, so refined. The 2024 is an especially elegant Pichon-Comtesse. It’s also very clearly one of the wines of the vintage. Bravo. Tasted four times. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 The 2024 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande offers up attractive aromas of cassis, burning embers, tobacco leaf and fresh mint, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and polished palate that's seamless and suave, concluding with a moderately persistent finish. A blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc that attained 12.7% alcohol, it's a charming effort that will offer a broad drinking window. Score: 91 - 93 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Fragrant cassis bud, rose petals, and peony. Great definition, mouthwatering on the finish, savoury blue and black fruits, less concentration than the past few vintages, but this uses slate textured tannins, cold ash smoke and well-judged salinity to compensate and build interest and engagement. Harvest September 22 through to October 9. 66% new oak. Low yields of around 30hl/h. 16% press wine, 52% of the overall production (with the rest in Pichon Comtesse Reserve, no 3rd wine). 3.7 pH. IPT 70, Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Pontet Canet | Pauillac | £360 | 6x75cl | - | - | 94-96 | 94 | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Pontet-Canet is one of the most elegant wines I have tasted here in some time, as in a long time. Brisk acids and beams of tannin shape a mid-weight, classically built Pontet-Canet unlike any I have tasted. The 2024 is not an obvious wine, it does not have the opulence of most recent years, rather it is a wine that impresses with its energy, tension and class. Floral, spice and mineral notes stain the palate in this vibrant, beautifully sculpted Pontet-Canet. The 2024 is seriously impressive, but it is also less immediate than what was once the norm because of a shift towards a style that favors greater energy and vibrancy than in the recent past. The evolution here is going to be fascinating to follow in the coming years. Tasted three times. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 The 2024 Pontet-Canet underlines the fact that daring to harvest late paid dividends in this challenging vintage, wafting from the glass with aromas of cassis, black raspberries and plums mingled with accents of rose petals, licorice and exotic spices. Medium to full-bodied, deep and integrated, with mid-palate density that's all too rare this year, it's layered, suave and seamless, concluding with a long, sapid finish. Picking began on September 26 and concluded on October 11, with the heart of the estate's old-vine Cabernet Sauvignon coming in between the seventh and the ninth, well after many châteaux had finished their harvest. Greater reactivity during the season means that Pontet-Canet's vineyards are gaining in vigor, while in the winery, a lighter touch with extraction, systematic climate control and a wholesale refinement of the estate's cooperage choices have brought new harmony and sensuality to this estate's wines. That has combined with a willingness to take risks with harvest dates to deliver what is clearly one of the wines of the vintage. The blend is roughly half Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with the balance Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Score: 94 - 96 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Vibrant ruby in colour with violet edging, this is beautifully measured, with a careful release of black fruits. Puts the focus on the floral side of Cabernet Sauvignon on the aromatics, with rose petals, chamomile, fragrant tomato leaf and lilac. There is austerity on the opening, with tight architecture but as it opens juice begins to flow through the pumice and slate-textured tannins, and this delivers a finessed, slim-style of Pauillac, with plenty of ageing potential and quiet confidence. Harvest September 26 through to October 11. 3.8ph, 50% new oak, 35% concrete amphoras. One of the successes of the vintage. Tasted twice. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2046 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Poujeaux | Moulis | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 90 | 89-91 | - | |
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The 2024 Poujeaux is quite bold and savory, largely because of the elevated presence of Petit Verdot in the blend. Dried flowers, lavender, spice and licorice lend dark tonalities to the bouquet. In 2024, Poujeaux is quite reticent, despite its mid-weight structure and modest 12.5% alcohol. I would cellar it for a few years, as this needs time to come together. I find the 2024 a bit raw and unformed at this stage, and yet it has plenty of depth to make me cautiously optimistic about the future. Tasted two times. Score: 89 - 91 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2044 Medium intensity deep plum colour, fragrant cumin and turmeric spice, this is enjoyable, sappy, a little leafy for sure but manages to capture the old school charm of a cooler Médoc vintage, and will deliver pleasure for a long time to come. Harvest September 27 to October 9. 33hl/h yield, 3.85ph, Mathieu Cuvelier owner. Tasted twice. Score: 90 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Rauzan Segla | Margaux | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-92 | 94 | 95-98 | - | |
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The 2024 Rauzan-Ségla is magnificent. One of the top wines of the Left Bank, Rauzan-Ségla possesses tremendous textural density and mind-blowing balance. Dark fruit, lavender, spice, licorice and new leather are all dialed up in a potent, layered Margaux that offers stunning harmony and incredible purity. At this stage, Rauzan-Ségla is one of the wines of the vintage in Bordeaux. Elegant yet powerful, the 2024 is simply magnificent. Tasted four times. Score: 95 - 98 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2043-2054 A blend of 63.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, 2% Petit Verdot and 0.5% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 Rauzan-Ségla offers up aromas of minty cassis, pencil shavings and cigar wrapper, followed by a medium-bodied, soft and pillowy palate that's supple and open-knit, concluding with a melting, discreetly herbal finish. Score: 89 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Inky colour here, one of the deepest in the appellation, lovely precision, great quality, the cool spirit of the vintage comes through in the sappy fruit, blue rather than black in character if not in colour, with black tea, espresso, chalk, lots of finesse, and still delivers flesh through the mid palate, with a touch of bitter cocoa bean on the finish. 22% press wine, 50% new oak, 3.7ph. This is the first organic certified vintage. 30hl/h yield, 55% of production in the main estate wine. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Reynon Sauvignon Blanc | £80 | 12x75cl | - | - | - | 89 | 89-91 | - | ||
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The 2024 Reynon Blanc is an absolute delight. It offers plenty of Sauvignon Blanc character in a style that emphasizes orchard fruit notes and soft contours. Pear, mint and white pepper are some of the nuances that open in the glass. This classy, polished white is seriously impressive in 2024, especially given its modest price. Score: 89 - 91 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2031 Pale yellow-grey in colour, fairly strict in its aromatic profile, high lime zest and gooseberry, a little dilute through the mid palate, fragrant aromatics with grip, but not a ton of depth. Dubourdieu family. Score: 89 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2025-2030 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Saintayme | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc | Dry Whites | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 92-94 | 95 | 95-97 | - | |
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The 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc is complex, dynamic and an absolute delight. Everything about the 2024 speaks to class. Brisk acids drive through a core of citrus fruit, almond, mint, chamomile and white pepper. More than anything else, I admire the wine's tension and energy. Clean saline notes extend the dry, bracing finish. Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2039 Floral and complex, the 2024 Blanc from Smith Haut Lafitte offers up aromas of white peach, apricot, spices and spring blossoms. Medium-bodied, round and layered, it's sappy and seamless with an incisive mid-palate and a long, ethereal and refreshing finish. Matured in 50% new oak, this blend of 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 5% Sémillon and 5% Sauvignon Gris represents a strong effort. Score: 92 - 94 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027 - 2045 A gorgeous aromatic blossom of white peaches, peach pit, sage, apple blossom, soft clove and white truffle spices, gentle lift through the palate, a wonderfully fragrant, generous but finessed Smith Haut Lafitte Blanc, with so much depth and length. 50% new oak for ageing, harvest August 29 to September 13, 3.2ph. Energy maintained through the palate, up there with one of the whites of the vintage. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2038 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Smith Haut Lafitte Rouge | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | 94 | 91-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte is raw and not fully formed. Today the tannins are imposing. There's good energy and depth in the glass, but the 2024 is very backward. Floral and spice notes emerge with air, but for the time being, Smith Haut Lafitte is a bit of a mystery. Score: 91 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 Notes of spices, oak, dark berries and gentian preface the 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte, a medium-bodied, firm and structured wine with an assertive tannic frame that leads to a compact, gentian-inflected finish. This blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, matured in 60% new oak, is somewhat introverted and linear, making it a chewy Smith Haut Lafitte that will need time to unwind. YC Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2036 Toasted cedar and sandalwood oak on the nose, the team as Smith Haut-Lafitte has done a lovely job of adding a gourmet lick of grilled blueberry and raspberry fruits to the opening moments of the wine, alongside richer damson and black cherry in the mid-palate. Great energy, lift and juice, vivid fruits, graphite, ink, chalk tannins, slimmer through the mid palate than in the bigger vintages, but everything in its place. 21hl/h yield, 60% new oak. Fabien Teitgen technical director. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to shopping basket] | Suduiraut | Sauternes/Barsac | £237 | 12x37.5cl | New | - | - | - | 95 | 94-96 | - |
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The 2024 Suduiraut offers up a beguiling mix of passion fruit, mango, pineapple and tangerine oil. Even with 130 grams of residual sugar, the 2024 is not an especially opulent Sauternes. I especially admire its freshness. What a beautiful and expressive wine. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2054 This really is charming, full of marmalade and orange zest, saffron and lime, bitter finish in the best way, gives focus and rises up through the palate. 4.1 TA. 3.83 pH. 130 g/l. 50% new oak. Four passes through the vineyard through to 3rd week of October, with 2nd and 3rd being the heart. Pierre Montegut technical director across both Suduiraut and Pichon Baron. 11.3hl/h yield. Lovely, softly spoken, not the intensity of 2022, but just thoroughly appealing. Eric Boissenot consultant, as at Pichon and at Noval in Portugal. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2038 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Talbot | St Julien | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 88-90 | 90 | 90-92 | - | |
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The 2024 Talbot is an attractive, understated Saint-Julien. Sweet pipe tobacco, cedar, mint, mocha, dried herbs and incense lend notable aromatic presence. The 2024 is pleasant but also a bit light texturally. Let's see what happens with élevage. Score: 90 - 92 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2049 The 2024 Talbot is a blend 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot. Offering up aromas of minty cherries, cassis, burning embers and new oak, it's medium-bodied, taut and youthfully angular. Score: 88 - 90 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Finely constructed tannic frame, sappy, good clarity of fruit but lacking some punch. One of the highest yields of the vintage at 54hl/h, Nancy Bignon-Cordier. 60% new oak. Score: 90 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Troplong Mondot | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 95 | 95-97 | - | |
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The 2024 Troplong Mondot is a total stunner. As has been the case for some years now, the Grand Vin is blended before being barreled down, which means at the time of tasting en primeur, the wine has seen less wood than the vast majority of its peers. That lends this wine a certain raw energy that is impossible to miss. The purity and intensity of the flavors are simply remarkable. Troplong Mondot is one of the standouts of 2024. Even in this vintage, Troplong Mondot possesses remarkable textural presence, but that richness is matched by notable freshness and linear drive. It was deeply impressive on the two occasions I tasted it. Élevage is planned to be 55% in new oak, 26% in 20HL barrels and 19% in once-used barrels. Score: 95 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2026-2030 This has the Troplong terroir and intensity visually, immediately clear, with violets, squid ink, slate, roses, liquorice root. Love the chalky oyster shell salinity on the finish, delivers exceptional balance and lift, with interesting texture that is grippy with pumice stone tannins. No chaptilisation, because this is a location with natural density and you really see it here. Brilliantly silky, this has depth and yet is savoury, touch of whole cluster winemaking. 55% new oak, with 19% oak casks and the rest one year old. Score: 95 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2031-2042 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Trotte Vieille | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 93 | 92-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Trotte Vieille is a potent, explosive wine. An exotic mélange of black fruit, new leather, chocolate, espresso, menthol and licorice literally stains the palate. As always, Trotte Vieille is such a distinctive wine. The finish is perhaps a touch light. Then again, this is 2024. Today, Trotte Vieille comes across as raw and not totally put together, but its pedigree and potential are undeniably present. Score: 92 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 Concentrated, medium intensity ruby red colour. On the opening this is restrained, elegant, pared back, with well delivered juice that just slowly infuses the palate with lift and sinewed salinity; This is a well balanced and confident wine, great quality. 100% new oak, 3.45ph. Tasted twice. Axel Marchal and Thomas Duclos consultants. Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Valandraud | St Emilion | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | - | 94 | 92-95 | - | |
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The 2024 Valandraud is quite the powerhouse. Dense and explosive, Valandraud packs a huge punch. Macerations reached up to four weeks, long for the vintage, yielding an especially huge, deep Saint-Émilion. Valandraud is atypically concentrated for the year. Let's see what happens with élevage. There is a feeling of exoticism here that is so alluring. This is an especially heady, opulent wine in 2024. That was clearly the intent, and an approach that worked. Score: 92 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 There are very few wines in this vintage where you see these grilled, smoky aromatics that are backed up by fruit, but Valandraud delivers, and here you feel that owner Jean-Luc Thunevin stepped in and said, keep going, I want a Valandraud that I recognise. There is still acidity, but it is shaped into austerity and sapidity, with slate tannins, good quality plum and damson fruits. Estate signature, with ageing ability. Harvest 26 September to 7 October, 3.5pH. 100% new oak. Jean-Philippe Fort and Alexandre Béra from Rolland Consultants. Less leaning in to the vintage than railing against it, and there is clear oak here - but it works. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2040 |
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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Vieux Chateau Certan | Pomerol | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 91-93 | 94 | 93-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Vieux Château Certan is a delicate, elegant wine driven by its strong floral component from the significant presence of Cabernets in the blend this year. Silky tannins add to an impression of restraint. I can't remember tasting a young VCC with this equilibrium, one that approaches a Burgundian textural feel, for lack of a better word. The 2024 opens with a bit of time in the glass, but it is a decidedly understated, calm VCC. I can't wait to see how it ages. Score: 93 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2034-2054 A blend of 71% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 9% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2024 Vieux Château Certan opens in the glass with brooding aromas of dark berries, cedar, cigar wrapper, crushed mint and loamy soil. Medium to full-bodied, with good density for the vintage and sweet structuring tannins, it concludes with a sapid, slightly earthy finish. Yields after annual sorting came in at 30 hectoliters per hectare, and the wine is being matured in two-thirds new barriques. Score: 91 - 93 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Violet ruby with a vibrant rim, reflects the savoury vivid quality of the vintage in the wines that deliver. Clear chamomile tea, fragrant white blossom, redcurrant, blueberry, a touch of austerity and reserve compared to the past few vintages, but with purity and finesse, mouthwatering finish, 30hl/h yield, 3.7ph, harvest 20 September to 2 October. 3.70 pH, and a high Cabernet character in the final blend (despite one block less of Cabernet Franc after replanting), 66% new oak. An enjoyable wine from Alexandre Thienpont. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044 |