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2000 Chateau Leoville Barton Saint Julien
Bordeaux Blend; Bordeaux; | $199.99 | |
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" Full medium ruby. Knockout superripe nose combines black cherry, licorice and exotic spices. Compellingly sweet, lush and complete, with harmonious acids giving the wine lovely vinosity and extending the flavors. Finishes with lush, dusty tannins and superb persistence. A great vintage for Leoville-Barton." -- Steve Tanzer (94 points)
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2003 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac-Leognan
Bordeaux Blend; Bordeaux; | $399.99 | |
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"Good deep ruby-red. Knockout nose of redcurrant, raspberry, tobacco, hot stones, minerals and menthol. Wonderfully dense and suave, with a texture like liquid silk. Extravagant, lush Haut-Brion, finishing with improbably smooth, fine-grained tannins and great persistence." -- Steve Tanzer (93 points)
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2001 Chateau Margaux Margaux
Bordeaux Blend; Bordeaux; | $249.99 | |
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" Enticing aromas of boysenberry, cedar, espresso and roasted oak. Sweet, lush and broad in the mouth, with sappy berry and espresso flavors. This boasts the pliant texture and near-perfect balance of the vintage's best examples. Finishes with a fine dusting of tannins. Like so many 2001s, this is easy to taste today but may well close down in the coming year or so." -- Steve Tanzer (93 points)
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2001 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild Pauillac
Bordeaux Blend; Bordeaux; | $599.99 | |
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" Bright red-ruby. Sexy aromas of raspberry, cedar, coconut, minerals, lead pencil, chocolate and tobacco leaf. Juicy, lively and penetrating, with sharply delineated flavors of blackberry, raspberry and rose petal. Boasts the classic inner-mouth energy of this great first growth, but also grew increasingly silky with extended aeration. Finishes with tongue-coating tannins and superb lift." -- Steve Tanzer (93 points)
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2004 Chateau Latour Pauillac
Bordeaux Blend; Bordeaux; | $399.99 | |
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"Ruby-red. Highly complex aromas of dark berries, graphite, licorice, minerals and cola. Lush, dense and sweet, with a wonderfully creamy, opulent mouth feel for the vintage but no impression of excess weight. This boasts superb fruit and palate coverage. Finishes with very suave, spreading tannins and outstanding persistence. An aristocratic expression of ripe cabernet sauvignon." -- Steve Tanzer (93 points)
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2003 Chateau Leoville Las Cases Saint Julien
Bordeaux Blend; Bordeaux; | $199.99 | |
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"Medium red-ruby. Explosive nose of currant, cedar and lead pencil; shows near-perfect integration of the new oak. Sweet and lush but bright and light on its feet, possessing plenty of harmonious acidity. This has a wonderfully fine-grained texture and really saturates the palate with flavor. The very suave tannins reach the front teeth. Impressively dense, large-scaled wine." -- Steve Tanzer (93 points)
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2004 Chateau Margaux Margaux
Bordeaux Blend; Bordeaux; | $299.99 | |
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"(78% cabernet sauvignon, 18% merlot and 4% petit verdot) Ruby-red. Boysenberry, dark chocolate and violet on the nose; more restrained than the Pavillon Rouge. Silky, suave and lacy, with perfectly integrated acidity. Moderately dense but not at all weighty. Broadens and expands impressively on the back end, subtly saturating the entire palate and leaving the mouth feeling fresh." -- Steve Tanzer (92 points)
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2004 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild Pauillac
Bordeaux Blend; Bordeaux; | $499.99 | |
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"(90.5% cabernet sauvignon, 9% merlot and 0.5% petit verdot) Bright ruby. Highly expressive aromas of cassis, violet, licorice, minerals and cedar. Intensely flavored and penetrating but not at all hard. A moderately dense vintage for Lafite but extremely suave and sharply delineated. Conveys an impression of urgent cabernet fruit. Firmly built, classy wine, finishing with sweet tannins and lovely floral persistence." -- Steve Tanzer (92 points)
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