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The 2010 Clarets: A Modern Classic (Jul 2013)

Good full ruby-red. Musky aromas of black cherry, blueberry, espresso, menthol and licorice, lifted by a cool floral element. Densely packed and savory, displaying sappy energy to its intense dark berry flavors. With a serious structure and no easy sweetness today, this vibrant wine will need a good five to seven years in the cellar…

2015 Bordeaux: Every Bottle Tells a Story… (Feb 2018)

One of the sleepers of the vintage, the 2015 Cantemerle is even better from bottle than it was from barrel. Dark cherry, plum, licorice, new leather and tobacco all flesh out in this inviting, resonant Haut-Médoc. A wine with gorgeous presence and no hard edges, Cantemerle captures all the sheer early appeal of the vintage….

Finally: Bordeaux 2015 In Bottle (Jul 2019)

The 2015 Cantemerle offers an attractive blackberry, raspberry and blueberry nose, forward and more fruit-driven than its peers. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, fine acidity and gentle grip, but comes across a little pushed toward the judiciously spiced finish. Give it another couple of years in bottle. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015…

Bordeaux 2012: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (May 2013)

Deep purple-ruby. Highly aromatic nose offers scents of smoky blackberry, red cherry, violet, cocoa and spicy oak. Juicy, spicy and rather deep for the vintage, with nicely concentrated sour cherry and bright blackcurrant lifted by a floral element. A peppery twist complicates the rising, almost creamy finish, which shows a restrained sweetness and sneaky concentration….

A Century of Bordeaux: The Twos (Sep 2022)

The 2012 Grand-Puy-Lacoste has an impressive cassis-tinged bouquet with fresh tobacco and graphite infused black fruit that are very well focused and neatly integrated with the oak. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, a keen thread of acidity, finely proportioned with a vibrant graphite-infused finish. One of the standout Left Bank wines of the…

2015 Bordeaux: Every Bottle Tells a Story… (Feb 2018)

The 2015 Clarendelle Bordeaux is plump, juicy and nicely suited to drinking now and over the next few years. Sweet cherry, tobacco, menthol, licorice and dried herb notes are pushed forward in this pretty, mid-weight wine from Haut-Brion’s Clarence Dillon negociant wines.