With a year in wood, this wine's generous fruits have just started to develop a fine, perfumed character. Tannins give a firm backbone to this solid wine that needs time. Drink from 2023. ROGER VOSS
This powerful wine is rich in tannins as well as dark black fruits. With its structure and young concentration, the wine is still firm and dry. Drink it when the fruit begins to shine in mid-2021.
A complete and complex red with cherry, walnut, dark chocolate and some hazelnut. It’s full and tight with linear structure and intensity. Excellent length. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
Intensely fragrant, this stunner has enticing scents of crushed mint, rose a hint of pine forest and a potpourri of spice. Made with organically farmed grapes, it's linear, with knife-like precision that frames pomegranate,... Read More
Bernard Magrez's 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon is gorgeous. It is made in a much more restrained style than the wines of the past. There is plenty of natural Napa Valley richness, but not the heaviness that marked some earlier vintages.... Read More
Saturated ruby-red. An expansive bouquet evokes ripe, spice-tinged red and dark berry, garrigue, potpourri and incense qualities and a smoky mineral topnote. Stains the palate with concentrated Chambord, cherry-cola, candied lavender... Read More
The 2018 Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru has closed down a touch on the nose, eventually revealing red fruit, violet petals and a light oyster shell note. Fine delineation and superb focus. The palate is detailed and precise, just a faint... Read More
Big, rich and packed with smoky black fruits, this is not a shy wine. Dark chocolate and black-plum flavors mingle with the solid structure and concentrated tannins. With its ripe, juicy fruitiness at the end, the wine has all... Read More
This nearly pure sauvignon blanc shows freshness and density at the same time for the vintage. Full-bodied, exotic and crisp. The clay and limestone soils helped.
Blended of 59% Cabernet Sauvignon and 41% Merlot aging in 60% new barriques, the 2018 Haut Batailley is very deep purple-black in color and takes some coaxing to reveal profound notes of dark chocolate, crème de cassis,... Read More