2009 - Chateau Petit Village Pomerol
"This is sexy, with beautiful ripe fruit and spices. Full bodied, with focused fruit and a long finish. Racy. So focused. Class."
Wine Spectator, 92-95 pts.
"Offers up hints of toffee, caramelized red and black fruits, and spicy oak. Medium to full-bodied, soft, round, and generous with abundant glycerin, this beauty can be drunk over the next 10-15 years." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, 88-90+ pts.
$54.50/750ML btl
$654.00/case of 12
2009 - Chateau Pichon Lalande Pauillac
Limit 12 Bottles per customer.
"Exhibits an intoxicatingly intense nose of red and black fruits, subtle smoke, charcoal, forest floor, and a hint of flowers. Unusually full-bodied for a wine from this estate as well as unctuously textured, voluptuous, and incredibly pure and precise, this dazzling wine should be drinkable at an early age, and evolve for 30+ years." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, 96-98 pts.
"Wow. This has an incredible complexity on the nose of currant, spice, mineral and flowers. Full-bodied, with a great density of fruit and tannins, yet polished and beautiful."
Wine Spectator, 95-98 pts.
2009 - Chateau Pichon Lalande Pauillac
"Exhibits an intoxicatingly intense nose of red and black fruits, subtle smoke, charcoal, forest floor, and a hint of flowers. Unusually full-bodied for a wine from this estate as well as unctuously textured, voluptuous, and incredibly pure and precise, this dazzling wine should be drinkable at an early age, and evolve for 30+ years." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, 96-98 pts.
"Wow. This has an incredible complexity on the nose of currant, spice, mineral and flowers. Full-bodied, with a great density of fruit and tannins, yet polished and beautiful."
Wine Spectator, 95-98 pts.
2009 - Chateau Picque Caillou Pessac Leognan
"Blueberry and flowers, with hints of sweet tobacco on the nose. Full-bodied, with polished and silky tannins and a long, juicy finish. Best ever from here."
Wine Spectator, 90-93 pts.
$17.50/750ML btl
$210.00/case of 12
2009 - Chateau Pontet Canet Pauillac
"Outrageously concentrated, with silky tannin (the sweetest I have ever tasted in a Pontet-Canet as well as the highest measured), an opaque purple color, and copious notes of graphite, cassis, licorice, and subtle smoke and forest floor. Full-bodied and unctuously textured with striking purity and definition, it is a wine of colossal weight as well as elegance (in itself a poster boy for this paradox in 2009). This brilliant Pauillac requires a decade of cellaring despite its voluptuous texture. It should evolve for 50-75 years." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, 97-100 pts.
"Delivers aromas of blueberry skin, fresh flowers, licorice and raspberry sauce, with something exotic underneath it all. Full-bodied, with wonderful clarity and freshness. It¿s like looking at a full moon on a crystal-clear night in the country. This keeps coming at you, with tannins and ripe fruit. What balance, yet power to the wine. I love how the wine changes and challenges you with every sip."
Wine Spectator, 95-98 pts.
2009 - Chateau Poujeaux Moulis
"Full and very velvety, with round and juicy tannins. Creamy. New ownership here is really making a difference in wine quality; this is the best ever after maybe the 1929."
Wine Spectator, 93-96 pts.
"Soft, fleshy, and opulent, with lots of black currant and black cherry fruit intermixed with hints of cedar and spice box, and an enticing texture result in a wine to drink now and over the next 10-12 years. It is a sleeper of the vintage." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, 90-93 pts.
$27.00/750ML btl
$324.00/case of 12
2009 - Chateau Prieure Lichine Margaux
"Complex aromas of mineral, blueberry and currant follow through to a full body, with superfine tannins and a long, long finish. This is exceptional. Best of all time."
Wine Spectator, 94-97 pts.
"Beautiful floral-infused black fruits jump from the glass of this opaque ruby/purple-colored wine. Possibly richer, denser, and even more complete than the brilliant 2005 (although it is still too early to say that definitively), this is certainly a more opulent, succulent style of wine than even the 2005, which had surprising flesh for a wine from that vintage." -Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, 91-93 pts.
2009 - Chateau Rabaud Promis Sauternes
"This is initially very muted on the nose, but it unfurls seductively with subtle, perfumed aromas of lime leaf, white peach, fresh apricot and touches of white flowers: very pretty and well defined. The palate is beautifully balanced, so pure and succinct with wonderful precision towards the vibrant, white peach and apricot finish. This is a wonderful Sauternes and one of their best wines in recent years." -Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate, 94-96 pts.
"Sliced pear and apple, with honey and spices. Full-bodied, with apple pie and honey flavors and a pretty finish."
Wine Spectator, 90-93 pts.
$23.00/375ML btl
2009 - Chateau Raymond Lafon Sauternes
"There is a little SO2 on the nose at the moment. The palate is well balanced with a citric entry, touches of apricot and lime, tightly coiled towards the finish with the acidity slicing through the viscous honey fruit with a touch of Tropicana. Again, this is a very focused, tensile Sauternes with beguiling clarity." -Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate, 92-94 pts.
$20.00/375ML btl
2009 - Chateau Rayne Vigneau Sauternes
"The 2009 Rayne-Vigneau is one of the stars of the vintage. It has a very well defined, almost understated nose with white peach, apricot and lime leaf: very pretty and succinct. The palate is very well balanced, beautifully defined with real minerality showing through the viscous, botrytized fruit. Great tension here, effortlessly counterbalancing the richness to perfection." -Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate, 94-96 pts.
"Shows notes of orange and lemon peel, with dried apple. Full-bodied and very sweet, with a thick and layered palate. Long and spicy. Solid and well made."
Wine Spectator, 92-95 pts.
$23.75/375ML btl
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