ST EMILION · RIGHT BANK

St Emilion is one of Bordeaux's largest producing appellations, producing more wine than Listrac, Moulis, St Estèphe, Pauillac, St Julien and Margaux put together. St Emilion has been producing wine for longer than the Médoc but its lack of accessibility to Bordeaux's port and market restricted exports to mainland Europe and the region never originally enjoyed the commercial success which funded the great châteaux of the Left Bank. St Emilion itself is the prettiest of Bordeaux's wine towns, perched on top of the steep limestone slopes upon which many of the region's finest vineyards are situated. However, more than half of the appellation's vineyards lie on the plain between the town and the Dordogne River on sandy, alluvial soils with a sprinkling of gravel. Further diversity is added by a small, complex gravel bed to the north-east of the region on the border with Pomerol. Atypically for St Emilion, this allows Cabernet Franc and, to a lesser extent, Cabernet Sauvignon to prosper and defines the personality of the great wines such as Ch. Cheval Blanc. In recent years there has been an explosion of experimentation and evolution, leading to the rise of the "garagistes", producers of deeply concentrated wines made in very small quantities and offered at high prices. The appellation is also surrounded by four "satellite" appellations, Montagne, Lussac, Puisseguin and St. Georges, which enjoy a family similarity but not the complexity of the best wines. St Emilion was first officially classified in 1954 and is the most meritocratic classification system in Bordeaux, as it is regularly amended. The latest revision was in 2012.

2021 CHÂTEAU BARDE-HAUT
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CERTIFIED ORGANIC & HVE3
+771294 · 12x750ml
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80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc.
With lower yields and careful selections, 2021 is expressive with fresh fruit notes and a lower concentration of tannins. The ripeness of the fruit on the palate is very forward and welcoming. The wine of Château Barde- Haut offers an admirably balanced dialogue between power and freshness, resulting in a product of rare elegance. A blend of 80% Merlot & 20% Cabernet Franc that is sustainably farmed, hand-picked, and crafted. If you could invent an extraordinary terroir, you might create something like Château Barde-Haut. A south-facing amphitheater, it has a limestone base that is covered with a superb, very robust layer of clay. When the clay is saturated with water, the limestone absorbs the surplus and stores it, making it available again to the vines again in the event of a drought. Château Barde-Haut is a 250-year-old property enthusiastically committed to working to achieve the highest standards in Saint Emilion.
Chateau Barde Haut is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JL: 93 || NM: 92 || VN: 92 || JMQ: 92

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 17 || 15 || 14 || 12

2020 CHÂTEAU BARDE-HAUT
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CERTIFIED ORGANIC & HVE3
+831114 · 12x750ml
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80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc.
The wine of Château Barde-Haut offer an admirably balanced dialogue between power and freshness, resulting in a product of rare elegance. A good drop of damson and black cherry fruits right up front and holds its line while the more austere tannins come in towards the finish. Expertly extracted, self-contained right now, firm fruits that don't dip through the mid palate alongside a glossy wash of liquorice, black chocolate, sage and anis. This is clearly going to age well. 60% new oak for ageing. Owned by Hélène Garcin-Leveque, this is located right next to Troplong Mondot.
Chateau Barde Haut is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 95 || JL: 95 || VN: 95 || JD: 95 || WI: 94 || DC: 94 || RP: 93 || JMQ: 92

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 19 || 17 || 15 || 14 || 12

2021 CHÂTEAU BEAU-SEJOUR BECOT
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ B
· SUTAINABLE & ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+848990 · 6x750ml
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85% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Franc, 2% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Harvest of Merlots from September 21 to October 8 and Cabernets from October 10 to 15. Wonderful burst of black fruit, blackberry, blackcurrant, violet and a touch of lilac and black cherry. Purity and sharpness. What pure, clean aromatic precision! Straight mouth, magnificently tense, structuring length, hyper-precise tannins for a Beau-Séjour Bécot very close to its terroir and with remarkable airy freshness. This vintage, unlike solar vintages, leaves this vintage without any filter and surely remains one of those which most express the Beau-Séjour Bécot terroir. Magnificent in its purity and limestone precision.
Chateau Beau-Sejour Bécot is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. Chateau Beau-Sejour Bécot is a perfect match with Asian dishes, hearty fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta as well as cheese.

STATUS: OPEN
JL: 96 || RP: 95 || DC: 95 || JMQ: 95

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 15 || 13 || 12 || 09 || 08 || 00 || 76

2015 CHÂTEAU BEAU-SEJOUR BECOT
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ B
· SUTAINABLE & ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+847776 · 12x750ml
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80% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc, 4% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Deep ruby red in colour. It has beautiful aromas of red fruits, oak, spices, leather, liquorice, and herbs. The palate is rich, full bodied, and concentrated with firm tannins and high acidity. It is a complex wine, with a structured long finish.
Chateau Beau-Sejour Bécot is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. Chateau Beau-Sejour Bécot is a perfect match with Asian dishes, hearty fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta as well as cheese.

STATUS: OPEN
WE: 96 || JL: 96 || WS: 95 || RP: 95 || JS: 95 || VN: 95 || DC: 94 || JD: 94 ||
TA: 93 || JMQ: 91 || JR: 16+
#55 - Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2018

VINTAGE NOTES:
15 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 13 || 12 || 09 || 08 || 00 || 76

2014 CHÂTEAU BEAU-SEJOUR BECOT
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ B
· SUTAINABLE & ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+866417 · 6x750ml · OPEN
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87% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc, 4% Cabernet Sauvignon.
There is a wonderful delicacy to this Saint-Emilion red. Tannins are ripe, sweet, and polished with flavors that range from cocoa, licorice, and sweet spices. The freshness in this wine is evident in the lifted finish that is fairly long. A beautiful wine that will age well.
Chateau Beau-Sejour Bécot is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. Chateau Beau-Sejour Bécot is a perfect match with Asian dishes, hearty fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta as well as cheese.

STATUS: OPEN
NM: 94 || WS: 93 || RP: 93 || VN: 92 || DC: 91 || JR: 16

VINTAGE NOTES:
14 || 21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 13 || 12 || 09 || 08 || 00 || 76

2020 CHÂTEAU BERLIQUET
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSE
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+893372 · 12x750ml
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69% Merlot, 31% Cabernet Franc.
Château Berliquet 2020 is a wine with a strong personality. Fresh pink grapefruit notes immediately burst through the nose and are soon interwoven with a deep terroir structure, rooted in the clay. The wine is dense, a quality also associated with its tannins, polished by the wine’s ageing. Floral vegetation expresses itself through a complexity of South of France aromas: pine, slightly sweet gorse flower, sap and broom. A hallmark of the terroir and the vintage: a mineral, almost saline finish with a long, drawn-out aftertaste.
Perfect for cellaring; yet showing very well right now. Open this bottle at home and witness how the flavors evolve and mature over the course of an evening or bring a bottle to your favorite restaurant to savor with a charred steak or short ribs braised in a red wine sauce.

STATUS: OPEN
WI: 95 || RP: 94 || JS: 94 || JD: 94 || JMQ: 94 || DC: 93 || JA: 93 || WS: 92 || VN: 92

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 19 || 16 || 15 || 09 || 00

2019 CHÂTEAU BERLIQUET
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSE
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+749536 · 12x750ml
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77% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Franc.
Berliquet 2019 has an assertive character with a full and generous attack. Then the palate savors the density and tension, with delicate summer fruit aromas. The minerality of the terroir and the power of the clay evidence the wine's earthy character.
Perfect for cellaring; yet showing very well right now. Open this bottle at home and witness how the flavors evolve and mature over the course of an evening or bring a bottle to your favorite restaurant to savor with a charred steak or short ribs braised in a red wine sauce.

STATUS: OPEN
RP: 94 || JS: 93 || JMQ: 93 || NM: 92 || JD: 92 || WS: 91 || VN: 90

VINTAGE NOTES:
19 || 16 || 15 || 09 || 00

2021 CHÂTEAU CANON
· ST. EMILION · PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ B
· CONVERSION TO ORGANIC - STARTED IN 2021
+102690 · 6x750ml
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71% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Franc.
Crackling with flashes of vibrant red, Château Canon 2021 is an electrifying experience. Raspberry and strawberry hues leap from the glass, locked in a heady embrace. Then the colour dims to a deep cherry-red, tinged with a bittersweet < darkness. The body is firm, toned, dense but never overpowering. The mid-palate is a study in controlled tension and formal precision, enlivened by a radiant splash of orange blossom and a hint of sweetness more almond than honey. It is the kaleidoscopic complexity of the vintage which most impresses, an impudent invitation to explore and enjoy. Fruity, floral, herbaceous, smoky: equilibrium incarnate.
Chateau Canon is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 97 || VN: 97 || DC: 96 || JA: 96 || RP: 95 || JL: 95 || JMQ: 95 || TA: 94 || NM: 93 || JR: 17

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 05

2016 CHÂTEAU CANON
· ST. EMILION · PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ B
· CONVERSION TO ORGANIC - STARTED IN 2021
+814289 · 6x750ml
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74% Merlot, 26% Cabernet Franc.
This has a glorious nose, focused fruit and is all in lacy delicacy, subtle, graceful, and pure with raspberry and earthy notes - it is just a magnificent balance of freshness, acidity, and fruit. The fruit is also darker and deeper in expression, and not quite so open, but the class and elegance here is extremely striking and it really is one of the top wines of the vintage.
Chateau Canon is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
RP: 98+ || WE: 98 || DC: 98 || TA: 98 || JS: 97 || NM: 97 || JD: 96 || WS: 95 ||
JR: 17.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
16 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 09 || 05

2021 CHÂTEAU CLOS DE SARPE
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CERTIFIED ORGANIC (2020)
+102922 · 6x750ml
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85% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc.
Dark purple colour with violet hue and black core. Expressive nose with aroma reminiscent of stewed blackberries and black cherries, vanilla, and hints of aromatic herbs. On the palate well-structured with medium body, ripe tannins, juicy fruit, and very good length.
Best served with meat dishes such as lamb or steak.

STATUS: OPEN
VN: 94 || RP: 93 || JL: 93 || DC: 91 || JMQ: 89

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 11

2021 CHÂTEAU CÔTE DE BALEAU
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· FARMING PRACTICES UNKNOWN
+102708 · 6x750ml
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90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc.
Dense ruby red. The nose is fragrant and dark fruity, cool, and slightly vegetal, and also shows fine, floral aromas. Tight on the palate, well structured, with noticeable tannin, a delicate, juicy fruit, it's like biting into a basket of berries, wow, shows a lot of race on the finish and ends with pomegranate and raspberries. At the same level as last year, but stylistically completely different.
Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. This Cabernet Sauvignon is ideal to serve with pizza with mushrooms or Gruyère burgers.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 93 || DC: 90 || JL: 90 || JMQ: 88 || JA: 87 ||

VINTAGE NOTES:
21

2021 CHÂTEAU CROIX DE LABRIE
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· SUTAINABLE & ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+102709 · 6x750ml
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90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
From a vintage blasted by frost and mildew, this old-vine, organic 90/5/5 blend of Merlot/Cabernet Franc/Cabernet Sauvignon retains the estate’s characteristic suppleness and grace. Rich aromas include raspberries, maple syrup and—after five minutes in the glass—tar and treacle. Some brownies on the attack, mint and mocha mid-palate and a beautifully enduring finish that includes some anise and mandarins. Fresh and bright acidity. Elegant and complex with a unique Cabernet Franc lilt that provides the mysterious Angel in the Bottle of Croix de Labrie. Toujours élégant!
Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. Chateau Croix de Labrie is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
JMQ: 95 || JA: 93 || JL: 91 ||

VINTAGE NOTES:
21

2021 CHÂTEAU FAUGERES
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION
+749536 · 12x750ml
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75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
The nose has a bouquet of ripe fruit, black cherries, and floral notes. On the palate, the wine is extremely rich and flavourful with a fine acidity. The finish is characterized by freshness and balance.
Chateau Faugères is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Faugères is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
DC: 92 || WS: 88 || JA: 88 || JMQ: 87

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09

2015 CHÂTEAU FAUGERES
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION
+749536 · 12x750ml
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION
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80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon .
Rich in anthocyanins and has velvety and finely extracted tannins. There is a freshness on the palate and perfect balance. The wines are very aromatic, with notes of red berries, menthol and licorice, and a marked mineral character. A long finish, fruity and fresh.
Chateau Faugères is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Faugères is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 95 || JL: 94 || WS: 93 || WI: 92 || JD: 92 || NM: 89 || DC: 88 || JR: 15

VINTAGE NOTES:
15 || 21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 14 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09

2021 CHÂTEAU FLEUR CARDINALE
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CONVERSION TO ORGANIC - STARTED IN 2021
+814410 · 12x750ml
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60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Château Fleur Cardinale 2021 takes you by surprise with its chiselled aromatic nose, its bright aromas of fresh blueberries and raspberries, highlighted by floral nuances. With real density, it unfolds into a beautiful creaminess. Its fine silky tannins give it a good length with a real freshness. After the tremors of an eventful beginning, 2021 appears more than any other as a fine vintage destined for the well-deserved rest of a lengthy maturation.
Chateau Fleur Cardinale is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Fleur Cardinale is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes. Chateau Fleur Cardinale is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
DC: 94 || JL: 93 || TA: 93 || JA: 92 || JMQ: 92 || WE: 91 || JR: 16.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09

2020 CHÂTEAU FLEUR CARDINALE
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CONVERSION TO ORGANIC - STARTED IN 2021
+814411 · 12x750ml
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77% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
From new winemaking facilities at this Grand Cru Classé château comes this 75% Merlot dominant blend that also includes Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Rich and sublime aromas of hedgerow wild fruit—blackberries and raspberries—as well as layers of earth. In the mouth this is a layer cake of juicy surprises, including acidity with flavors of clementines, a dark mocha/aniseed matrix mid palate and a finish with a hint of cherries and mint. Rich, juicy acidity and firm though unobtrusive tannins. Once opened, this wine will not last long. A fun though seriously crafted wine—pair with lamb and mint sauce, even oysters with tabasco, or a dessert of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
Chateau Fleur Cardinale is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Fleur Cardinale is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes. Chateau Fleur Cardinale is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 96 || JL: 95 || WI: 94 || JA: 94 || VN: 93 || JD: 93 || JMQ: 93 || JR: 17

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09

2018 CHÂTEAU FLEUR CARDINALE
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CONVERSION TO ORGANIC - STARTED IN 2021
+891877 · 12x750ml
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74% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, 4% Cabernet Sauvignon.
A racy style and an unprecedented freshness of fruit flavor. The tasting of the first samples confirmed what the lab analyses had already indicated: well-controlled ripeness underpinned by unparalleled acidity levels. Château Fleur Cardinale 2018 is particularly notable for its magnificent Cabernets Francs, well adapted to the climatology of the vintage. They give a very beautiful structure to the wine, in a racy style, while perpetuating the signature of Château Fleur Cardinale thanks to velvety tannins.
Chateau Fleur Cardinale is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Fleur Cardinale is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes. Chateau Fleur Cardinale is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
RP: 94+ || JS: 94 || VN: 94 || DC: 94 || JD: 94 || WS: 93 || WE: 93 ||
NM: 91+ || JR: 16.5+

VINTAGE NOTES:
18 || 19 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09

2021 CHÂTEAU FOMBRAUGE
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+811817 · 12x750ml
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88% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc.
With an impeccable balance between fruit, complexity and aromatic length, this wine is characterized by a sophisticated minerality, consistent from year to year, with soft and supple tannins and a velvety texture. It is made from the estate's oldest vines, meticulously hand-farmed using organic and biodynamic practices to bring out the finest quality in each cluster. Predominantly Merlot, the blend includes just enough Cabernet Franc to imbue the wine with an elegant tannic structure.
Chateau Magrez Fombrauge is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JA: 93 || JL: 93 || VN: 93 || JS: 92 || JD: 92 || DC: 91 || JMQ: 90

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 16 || 14

2021 CHÂTEAU FONPLÉGADE
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CERTIFIED ORGANIC (2013) & BIODYNAMIC (2020)
+102903 · 12x750ml
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88% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc.
With an impeccable balance between fruit, complexity and aromatic length, this wine is characterized by a sophisticated minerality, consistent from year to year, with soft and supple tannins and a velvety texture. It is made from the estate's oldest vines, meticulously hand-farmed using organic and biodynamic practices to bring out the finest quality in each cluster. Predominantly Merlot, the blend includes just enough Cabernet Franc to imbue the wine with an elegant tannic structure.
Chateau Fonplégade is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Fonplegade is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes

STATUS: OPEN
JA: 93 || JL: 93 || VN: 93 || JS: 92 || JD: 92 || DC: 91 || JMQ: 90

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 17

2020 CHÂTEAU FONPLÉGADE
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CERTIFIED ORGANIC (2013) & BIODYNAMIC (2020)
+888285 · 12x750ml
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90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc.
The Château Fonplégade 2020 has a beautiful ruby color with bold purplish tints. Fresh cherry nose, complexified by a touch of exotic fruits and ending with subtle floral notes. Powerful and vibrating mouth, beautiful touch of black fruits, ending by a salt and chalky final.
Chateau Fonplégade is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Fonplegade is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes

STATUS: OPEN
JA: 95 || JS: 94 || DC: 94 || JL: 94 || VN: 94 || JD: 94 || WI: 93 || WE: 93 ||
JMQ: 91 || JR: 17

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 19 || 17

2019 CHÂTEAU FONPLÉGADE
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CERTIFIED ORGANIC (2013) & BIODYNAMIC (2020)
+881221 · 6x750ml
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90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc.
With an impeccable balance between fruit, complexity and aromatic length, this wine is characterized by a sophisticated minerality, consistent from year to year, with soft and supple tannins and a velvety texture. It is made from the estate's oldest vines, meticulously hand-farmed using organic and biodynamic practices to bring out the finest quality in each cluster. Predominantly Merlot, the blend includes just enough Cabernet Franc to imbue the wine with an elegant tannic structure..
Chateau Fonplégade is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Fonplegade is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 95 || VN: 95 || WE: 94 || DC: 94 || JD: 94 || WI: 93 || WS: 92 || RP: 91 ||

VINTAGE NOTES:
19 || 17

2020 CHÂTEAU GRACIA
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CONVERSION TO ORGANIC - STARTED IN 2020
+888286 · 6x750ml

75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc.
Dark purple colour with violet hints and a black core. It has a powerful, multi-layered nose with an aroma of plums, cherries, orange zest, cocoa, and hints of toasted oak. The palate is opulent and fresh with velvety tannins and a long length.
Great with BBQ or grilled red meats.

STATUS: OPEN
WI: 94 || JD: 94-97 || JL: 94-96 || RP: 93-95+ || NM: 93-95 || DC: 92 ||

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 12 || 11

2020 CHÂTEAU GRAND MAYNE
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· REASONED VITICULTURE
+888287 · 12x750ml
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74% Merlot, 23% Cabernet Franc, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Subtle, fruity nose, dark and red berries go hand in hand, with some herbal spice. Fresh and already accessible on the palate, appears balanced, shows life and character, finishes pleasantly long and with stimulating spiciness. Very elegant!
Chateau Grand Mayne is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Grand Mayne is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. Chateau Grand Mayne is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
WI: 94 || DC: 94 || JL: 94 || NM: 94 || JD: 94 || JA: 93 || JS: 92 || JR: 16+

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 16

2021 CHÂTEAU HAUT BRISSON
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION (2015) & ISO 14001 CERTIFICATION (2015)
· CONVERSION TO ORGANIC - STARTED IN 2021
+102865 · 12x750ml
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90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc.
The 2021 vintage of Château Haut Brisson is defined by freshness and elegance. Aromas of blackcurrant mingle with notes of graphite; the well- balanced palate, with ripe tannins, offers a beautiful impression. There are hints of spice and black fruit. The finish is fresh and al- most chalky.
Chateau Haut Brisson is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 92 || JL: 90 || JD: 90 || JA: 88 ||

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 12

2021 CHÂTEAU LA GAFFELIERE
· ST. EMILION · PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION
+102697 · 6x750ml
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58% Merlot, 42% Cabernet Franc.
Very intense black fruits, with a slight aromatic lift and savoury spice. The acidity is fantastically fresh, but balances so well with the pure, ripe fruit. There's complexity of crushed rock, mint and clove. This has density and concentration but is perfectly poised. The tannins are ripe and there is a lovely saline, appetising quality to the finish, thanks to a higher than usual proportion of Cabernet Franc.
Chateau La Gaffeliere is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau La Gaffeliere is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
VN: 96 || JS: 94 || JD: 94 || JMQ: 94 || RP: 93 || DC: 93 || WS: 92 || JR: 16.5+

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 16 || 15 || 11 || 05

2016 CHÂTEAU LA MONDOTTE
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CERTIFIED ORGANIC (2014)
+813904 · 6x750ml
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80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc.
La Mondotte is a concentrated, ripe, rich and intense, minerality driven, style of Bordeaux wine that is unique to St. Emilion. La Mondotte requires at least 12-15 or more years before the wines soften and its true qualities begin to emerge.
Chateau La Mondotte is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau La Mondotte is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JD: 98+ || JS: 97 || VN: 97 || WS: 96 || WE: 96 || NM: 93 || TA: 93

VINTAGE NOTES:
16

2021 CHÂTEAU LAROQUE
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION
· ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+847783 · 6x750ml
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99% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc.
Dried flowers, forest floor, licorice, cocoa, wild cherries, black raspberries and strawberries define the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is supple, creamy, fresh, and most importantly, pure with the essence of its sweet, ripe, mildly salty, red fruits, and soft, silky tannins to make the lingering taste, and feel great.
Chateau Laroque is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Laroque is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
VN: 94 || JS: 93 || JA: 93 || JL: 93 || JD: 93 || RP: 92+ || NM: 92 || JMQ: 92 || JR: 16.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18

2020 CHÂTEAU LYNSOLENCE
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION (2019) & ISO 14001 CERTIFICATION (2020)
+888352 · 12x750ml
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100% Merlot.
When the harvest arrives at the winery, they pass onto a table where we meticulously screen out any possible botrytised grapes, any leaves or leaf stalks. To produce the wine of Lynsolence, following a cold soak for between 6 to 10 days, vinification takes place in a combination of temperature-controlled, 50-hectoliter oak vats and 400-liter, French, oak barrels. Malolactic fermentation is conducted in new, French oak barrels. The wine of Lynsolence is aged in 100% new, French, oak barrels for an average of 18 months before bottling.
Chateau Lynsolence is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Chateau Laroque is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
VN: 96 || JS: 94 || JL: 94 || JMQ: 93 || JD: 92+ || DC: 89 || TA: 89
Gold Medal - Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits - March 2023

VINTAGE NOTES:
20

2020 CHÂTEAU MANGOT
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION & ISO 14001 CERTIFICATION
+847779 · 12x750ml
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80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
This cru, from the St Emilion Grand Cru appellation, is a faithful portrait of our 4 terroirs spread between the foot of the slopes, slopes, terraces, and plateau. The blend is also representative of the 21 plots that make up our vineyards. After tasting the grapes, we harvest them plot by plot according to grape variety, but also and above all according to terroir, altitude, exposure, and age of the vines.
Best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. It is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
RP: 94 || DC: 94 || JS: 93 || JL: 92 || VN: 92

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 18

2021 CHÂTEAU PAVIE
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ A
· SUTAINABLE & ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+834373 · 6x750ml
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52% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, 18% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Pavie shows the softness I've always been waiting for in the vintage of 2021. For a super masculine wine, it actually showed its tenderness in the cool vintage. I have to say, this might be my most favorite en primeur of Pavie. A layer of mellow, powdery tannins coats the grand body; and rich scents of begonia, hawthorn cake, plum sugar, and a rare delicate violet fragrance flows from inside out. Pavie 2021 possesses the elegance I have not seen in previous vintages.
Chateau Pavie is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JL: 96 || DC: 94 || JA: 94 || TA: 94 || JR: 17++

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 16 || 11 || 10 || 01 || 00

2021 CHÂTEAU PAVIE MACQUIN
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ B
· SUTAINABLE & ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+102803 · 6x750ml
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79% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc, 2% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Deep crimson. Intense dark plum, dark cherry, praline aromas. Generous and refined dark plum, dark cherry dark chocolate flavours, plentiful fine al dente textures, attractive mid-palate density and vanilla/ nougat oak complexity. Finishes graphite/ sinewy firm with very good mineral length. 79% merlot, 19% cabernet franc, 2% cabernet sauvignon. 18 months in new and seasoned oak.
Chateau Pavie Macquin is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
VN: 94+ || DC: 94 || JA: 94 || TA: 94 || JMQ: 94 || RP: 93 || JL: 93 || WS: 92 || JR: 16.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 13 || 12 || 11 || 00

2021 CHÂTEAU POESIA
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION
· ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+102890 · 12x750ml
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70% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc.
Far from decorum and worldliness, a sincere wine that speaks of the soul of the vintage and not of its reflection. In Poesia, only the truth of the terroir makes its mark: The mark of the great wines of Saint-Émilion.
Best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. It is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
JL: 93 || JMQ: 92 || JL: 92-94 || VN: 91-93

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18

2020 CHÂTEAU POESIA
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION
· ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+847777 · 12x750ml
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70% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc.
Organic. The Château Poesia 2020 sparkles in the glass in garnet red with violet reflections. Sensational aromas of cherry, mulberry and blueberry unfold. Chocolate notes frame this fantastic fruit explosion. Impressions of Asian spices and the wonderful aroma of French heather garrigue join in and create a full-bodied palate. Long and mineral, typical of the Saint-Emilion wines, the enjoyment of this characterful and tannin-strong red wine from the Bordeaux ends. Château Poesia 2020 for many occasions.
Best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. It is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
JD: 96 || WI: 95 || JS: 95 || JL: 94 || VN:94 || RP: 93+ || DC: 91 || NM: 91 || JMQ:91

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 19 || 18

2021 CHÂTEAU PUY-BLANQUET
· ST. EMILION · GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+102711 · 12x750ml
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75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc.
The 2021 Puyblanquet has a high-toned, floral bouquet with violet petals infusing the red berry fruit, hints of mandarin in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with a pleasant sappiness on the entry, fine acidity and a minerally finish that lingers in the mouth. This is a solid effort in a tricky growing season. The wines are fresh and generous and can be enjoyed after just two or three years of cellaring.
Chateau puy Blanquet is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. Chateau Puy Blanquet is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
AM: 91-93

VINTAGE NOTES:
21

2019 CHÂTEAU QUINTUS
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CERTIFIED HEV3 (2018) & ISO 14001 & ISI 9001 (2019)
+866100 · 6x750ml
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55.4% Merlot, 44.6% Cabernet Franc.
The bouquet is powerful, intense, and complex, and bursting with notes of ripe, black fruit, particularly blackcurrant. Spicy, subtle overtones are already perceptible. Starts out broad-based and fleshy, with a remarkably caressing sensation, becoming full-bodied, with smooth, creamy fine-grained tannins mid-palate. The finish is long, without any hardness whatsoever. A perfect marriage between Merlot and Cabernet Franc, whereby the qualities of each grape variety are expressed to the full. This 2019 Quintus is clearly a tremendous success.
Best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. It is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
JD: 96 || JS: 95 || DC: 95 || WI: 94 || JMQ: 94 || RP: 93 || VN: 93

VINTAGE NOTES:
19

2021 CHÂTEAU TOUR SAINT CHRISTOPHE
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· SUTAINABLE & ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+801701 · 12x750ml
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80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc.
From the very beginning of the tasting of this very fine vintage, we find the identity of Château Tour Saint Christophe. Elegant aromas of blackberry and blueberry are combined with delicate floral notes and small chalky touches. The powerful structure is carried by a beautiful acidity which brings a fresh and sappy side. Aromas of stewed fruit and black pepper complete the palate, which extends to saline notes.
Chateau Tour Saint Christophe is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 93 || JL: 93 || VN: 93 || DC: 92 || JA: 92 || JD: 92 || JMQ: 89 || JR: 16

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14

2021 CHÂTEAU TROPLONG MONDOT
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ B
· SUTAINABLE & ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+831126 · 6x750ml
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85% Merlot, 13% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Cabernet Franc.
Deep colour. Intense dark plum, blackberry, graphite, wax polish dark chocolate aromas. Beautifully concentrated wine with lovely dark berry, graphite notes, fine bittersweet slinky tannins and chalky/ mineral notes. Finishes chalky firm with saline nuances. Classical Saint-Émilion.
Chateau Troplong Mondot is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: PRE-SOLD OUT
DC: 96 || VN: 96 || RP: 95 || JS: 95 || JA: 95 || JL: 95 || TA: 93 || JD: 93 ||
WS: 90 || JL: 17

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 13 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09 || 08

2018 CHÂTEAU TROPLONG MONDOT
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ B
· SUTAINABLE & ORGANIC PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+890707 · 6x750ml
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
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85% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc.
Unanimously acclaimed by the press and international critics, with notes that exceed even those of the exceptional 2015 and 2016, 2018 marks the birth of a vintage that will be remembered at the magnificent property located on the right bank of Bordeaux. Product of a very good year for the Bordeaux region, the Chateau Troplong Mondot 2018 expresses the quintessence of Saint-Emilion’s great terroir, and is distinguished by its balance, freshness and complexity.
Chateau Troplong Mondot is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 98 || DC: 97 || VN: 97 || RP: 96 || JD: 96 || NM: 95 || WE: 95-97 ||
WS: 94 || JR: 17.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
18 || 21 || 20 || 19 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 13 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09 || 08

2020 CHÂTEAU de VALANDRAUD
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ B
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - ISO 14001 & ISI 9001 CERTIFICATION
+848134 · 6x750ml
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90% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Purple/black at the core, more viscous than any other wine that I have tasted thus far and another one of those wines where the colour seems almost to have been dripped in from a pipette and has yet to set – if one swirls the glass, one imagines the colour will stay put! An utterly sumptuous and entirely hedonistic nose of violets and rose petals, confit and Palma violets and candied rose petals, black cherries, concentrated blue berry compote, the graphite rods from the reactor core, tar and baked earth, tobacco leaf, cedar (with more to come) and vanilla. The palate is no less hedonistic, with silky soft and ultra-fine-grained tannins, masses of deep, dark rich cherry and berry fruit, black forest gateau and a rolling-rippling sappy fresh juicy fruit that helps hold this all in some kind of balance, strange though it might seem to think that any kind of balance could be struck. There’s something a little mad and chaotic about this, but it has its own sense of integrity and harmony. Not perhaps for the faint-hearted; but wondrous in all its excess.
Valandraud is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The cool, almost cellar temperature gives the wine more freshness and lift. Valandraud is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 99 || JD: 99 || JL: 98 || VN: 98 || JMQ: 98 || WI: 97 || WE: 97 || DC: 96 || NM: 96

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 12 || 09 || 05

2016 CHÂTEAU VILLEMAURINE
· ST. EMILION GC   GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+765999 · 12x750ml
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80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc.
The wine displays a deep colour, very concentrated, with very suave fruit, lovely freshness, and round tannins. It shows a lovely, full length of flavour on the palate. Château Villemaurine 2016, with its great finesse and precision, expresses wonderfully the typicity of its clay-limestone terroir.
Serve with Roasted duck breast flavored with herbs, or Roast leg of lamb with garlic & rosemary.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 95 || JMQ: 93 || RP: 92+ || TA: 92 || VN: 90-93

VINTAGE NOTES:
16 || 11

2021 CLOS FOURTET
· ST. EMILION GC   PREMIER GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+831127 · 6x750ml
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90% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc.
Deep crimson. Inky dark plum, praline aromas with herb garden/ sage notes. Well balanced wine with dark plum, blackberry fruits, fine slinky/ chocolaty textures, and dukkah/ vanilla oak complexity. Finishes chalky firm and minerally. Very good density and torque.
Clos Fourtet is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 95 || JA: 94 || JL: 94 || VN: 94 || JMQ: 94 || DC: 93 || JD: 93 || WS: 92 || RP: 92 || JR: 16.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 12 || 00

2021 LE PETIT CHEVAL BLANC
· ST. EMILION GC   BORDEAUX BLANC
· ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY VITICULTURE
+845039 · 3x750ml
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83% Sauvignon Blanc, 17% Semillon.
Yellow colour with green highlights. A nose of great freshness and precision, with a fine diversity of whitefleshed and citrus fruits. The wine's energy is already perceptible. On the palate, the attack is full, straight, and full-bodied. It is well balanced between acidity, tension, and volume. The bitterness gives a long, lingering finish on the palate, giving it a salivating minerality.
Goes well with appetizer course of shellfish, oysters (especially), or cheese and fruit. Chateau Cheval Blanc is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
JA: 95 || JL: 94 || VN: 94 || WS: 91 || RP: 90

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18

2019 LE PETIT CHEVAL BLANC
· ST. EMILION GC   BORDEAUX BLANC
· ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY VITICULTURE
+881228 · 6x750ml
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79% Sauvignon Blanc, 21% Semillon.
The colour is bright, limpid, brilliant, a beautiful yellow-green. The first nose, subtle and delicate, is mainly dominated by notes of flowers, acacia and lime tree. By airing it, the bouquet becomes more complex and develops various aromatic families, citrus fruits, white-fleshed fruits such as peach, pear or apricot, and mineral notes, with an aromatic intensity that gradually becomes more refined. The attack on the palate is fresh and straightforward thanks to a beautiful acidity that guides the tasting. The density, fat and volume are slowly built up on the mid-palate. The finish, very long and elegant, is enhanced by the beautiful bitters, now the signature of this Petit Cheval white wine.
Goes well with appetizer course of shellfish, oysters (especially), or cheese and fruit. Chateau Cheval Blanc is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms and pasta.

STATUS: OPEN
DC: 94 || JMQ: 94 || WS: 92

VINTAGE NOTES:
19 || 20 || 18