Pauillac

65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc. Strained red fruit on the nose. There is juice on the palate, a little weight and richness but all kept in place by bright acidity. Another cracking wine from the GP...(read more)

This incredibly limited wine really impressed us when tasting. Château La Contrée only produces 2800 bottles of this one wine from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from a plot planted on deep gravel, between starry n...(read more)

55% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon. Bold and fleshy. Broad black north Pauillac style, tasting very Cabernet despite being majority Merlot. Dark chunky build-up. Some very firm density at the core. A rather classical big...(read more)

The 2016 Haut-Batailley was tasted from two bottles, the first showing a touch of TCA. The second has an airy and well-defined bouquet of blackberry, graphite and subtle floral aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with fi...(read more)

At peak now, but it will maintain this level for a few years. Classic Pauillac notes of cedar, pencil box, dark berry fruit (cassis) and spice, tannins resolved and giving a smooth fulness, well balanced acidity drawing...(read more)

82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot. Bright and crunchily fresh on the nose - this is gorgeously appetising form the off. Weight of quite firm quite classic fruit builds quickly in the mid palate. There is a great rich, c...(read more)

The 1996 Lafite-Rothschild is the strongest wine from the First Growth in that decade. This bottle, served blind and ex-château in Bordeaux, is so precociously backward that I estimate it to be half its age. Blackb...(read more)

53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, 1% Cabernet Franc. This is a stunning Réserve de la Comtesse. It has a beautiful fragrant nose of blackberry and dark cherry fruit with a lovely violet accent....(read more)