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The 2018 Chateau Lafon Rochet is such a classy wine. This Chateau Lafon Rochet has a power and finesse meld together in this Saint-Estèphe that is gorgeous, right from the very first taste. Black cherry, herbs, leather, licorice and dried flowers all build in the glass. In 2018, Lafon-Rochet is richer and bolder than it usually is, and yet all the elements are so nicely balanced.

This terroir is home to a great diversity of soils, including clay loams, clay and sandy soils. The 2018 Chateau Lafont Rochet is the Grand Vin of the estate and is made from a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (64%), Merlot (26%), Cabernet Franc (4%) and Petit Verdot (6%).

Produced with the utmost respect for the terroir from the oldest vines in the vineyard, the 2018 Chateau Lafont Rochet expresses the typicality of a great Saint-Estèphe wine.

95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points Decanter
94 points Jeb Dunnuck

The 2020 Chateau Lafont Menaut wine has a cherry- fruited, weighty wine with ripe tannins and good minerality. This red wine from Pessac-Léognan has charm and richness of this wine become evident at the first sight of its beautiful and brilliant, garnet-red colour. Dark fruit predominates at first sniff, with notes of blackcurrant and black cherry. After this appears a more complex ensemble of toast and vanilla. The oak is perceptible, but subtly so, the overall impression remaining one of elegance and lush fruitiness. This 2020 Chateau Lafont Menaut wine has a good overall balance.

The 2020 Chateau Lafont Menaut is a red wine from Pessac-Léognan produced by Chateau Lafont Menaut that is made of Cabernet Sauvignon (50%), Merlot (45%) and Cabernet Franc (5%). Aging lasts 12 months in barrels, 30% of which are new.

Food pairing suggestions: The perfect wine to enjoy with a stew such as Boeuf Bourguignon, some game or artisan cheese such as a nice creamy coulommiers.

Awards: Wine Enthusiast: 92/100

The 2015 Chateau Lagrange wine has a deep ruby in color. This Lagrange wine is full-bodied wine is packed with crisp, crunchy cassis and black fruits. The red wine tannins are present but ripe and the fruit has freshness and persistence in a slightly stoic but creamy finish. Only 35% of the harvest was placed into the Grand Vin. The 2015 is a great vintage for Lagrange, as it allowed the fruit to develop to its true potential. There is a true depth of flavor, softness to the wall of tannins, and a fresh, vibrancy to the layers of ripe, crisp red berries that stands out in the glass. The 2015 Chateau Lagrange wine is a heavenly little Saint-Julien that seriously delivers the goods. This 2015 Lagrange will age for years.

95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points James Suckling
93 points Decanter

The 2018 Chateau Lagrange wine is charming and gracious. This Chateau Lagrange is sweet, lifted aromatics and mid-weight structure give the 2018 tons of immediacy. Bright red berries, blood orange, mint, spice, rose petal and cedar build with time in the glass. Polished, silky tannins grace the beautifully persistent finish. Simultaneously powerful and harmonious, the wine retains a great aromatic freshness. A great vintage for Chateau Lagrange, already accessible in its youth but also promising a beautiful evolution over time.

A red Grand Vin from Saint-Julien, the Chateau Lagrange 2018 blends Cabernet Sauvignon (67%), Merlot (28%) and Petit Verdot (5%). The wine is aged in oak barrels (50% new oak) for 21 months.

97 points Jeb Dunnuck
95 points Wine Advocate
94 points Decanter

The 2019 Chateau Lagrange wine expresses the exceptional richness and great freshness of its fruit and the terroir of this iconic property of Saint-Julien. In this 2019 vintage, Cabernet Sauvignon truly dominates the blend, a first in the history of the domain.

This 2019 Chateau Lagrange is intense and expressive, the aromatic bouquet reveals beautiful notes of black fruit, reminiscent of morello cherries and blackcurrant. On the palate, the attack reveals a full-bodied and fleshy texture, structured by tannins that combine power and velvety smoothness. Endowed with a rare elegance and stylistic signature, the Chateau Lagrange 2019 is certainly in line with the great vintages of the property.

This 2019 Chateau Lagrange wine has a blend of Cabernet sauvignon (80%), merlot (18%), petit verdot (2%).

95 points Decanter
95 points Wine Advocate
95 points Wine Enthusiast

The 2018 Chateau Lagrange Les Arums De Lagrange wine is a classic Bordeaux Blanc as well as a textbook St Julien. This Les Arums De Lagrange wine is pale yellow color, very limpid, the smell expresses aromas of white flowers, citrus, grapefruit, hazelnut, with some hints of coffee notes due to the ageing in barrel. The attack is lively, very fresh. The palate is pure, fruity. The citrus fruits aromas prevail, combined with slight roasted coffee aromas. The 2018 Chateau Lagrange Les Arums De Lagrange is a well-balanced wine.

This wine was first created in 1996, and was one of the first white Médoc wines to be vinified in barrels. It has a unique style, with a veritable explosion of citrus and tart fruit blended with exotic flavours and white peach. A pure and fresh wine with a certain unctuousity.

This 2018 Chateau Lagrange Les Arums De Lagrange wine has a blend of 60% Sauvignon Blanc, 20% Sauvignon Gris, and 20% Sémillon.

Alcohol: 13.0%

The 2015 Chateau Langoa Barton is a wine that overdelivers in the appellation. The 2015 Chateau Langoa Barton which is largely Cabernet Sauvignon yet includes 38% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc. Brought up in 60% new oak, it boasts a deep purple color and smokin’ good notes of caramelized cherries, crème de cassis, toasty oak, and graphite. This St-Julien wins is big, full-bodied, concentrated, and structured, with awesome purity of fruit as well as notable elegance. This Chateau Langoa Barton wine needs 3-4 years of bottle age and will keep for two to three decades.

95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points James Suckling
93 points Wine Spectator

The 2020 Chateau Larose de Gruaud has a lovely softness and texture to this wine with a medium to full body, plenty of fruit and fine velvety tannins. Elegant Saint-Julien wine yet driven with gentle power. This Chateau Larose de Gruaud wine has aromas of spice and flesh, full of raspberry, blueberry, blackcurrant pastille, fennel, hawthorn and liquorice.

This 2020 Chateau Larose de Gruaud wine has a Blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot.

96 points James Suckling
95 points Decanter
95 points Wine Spectator

The 2018 Chateau Le Boscq wine is an exceptional vintage for this property, owned by Dourthe Vignobleincredibly. This 2018 Chateau Le Boscq wine has deep garnet-purple colored. This St-Estèphe wine features expressive notes of baked blackcurrants, blackberry pie and stewed plums with wafts of Provence herbs, cigar box and black pepper. Full, concentrated and supported by firm, chewy tannins, it has soft acid and an herbal lift on the finish.

A vintage where St Estephe has soared makes this a smart buy. Such expressive juicy fruit, amazing power and definition, great balance and power. The finish long and floral and lots of iodine and sea spray. Complex, this punches way out of its league. The best ever.

The 2018 Chateau Le Boscq wine is a blend of 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot and was picked 29 September until 20 October.

91 points Wine Advocate-Parker
90 points Wine Enthusiast

A splendid showing, much stronger from bottle than it was from barrel, the 2010 Chateau Leoville Barton wine is one of the spectacular wines of the vintage. This Chateau Leoville Barton has inky purple to the rim, its huge tannin gives this wine real potential for 30-50 years of longevity. It is a classic, powerful Bordeaux made with no compromise. A superstar of the vintage, the wine has notes of pen ink and creme de cassis, good acidity, sweet, subtle oak, and massive extraction and concentration. I thought it was one of the most backward wines of the vintage two years ago, and nothing has changed in the ensuing upbringing of the wine in cask except that the wine now seems even richer, denser and fuller than I previously thought. The beautiful purity, symmetry, and huge finish of nearly a minute make this one of the all-time great classics from Leoville Barton. Anticipated maturity: 2028-2065+.

The 2015 Chateau Leoville Barton wine has a deep garnet-purple colored. This Chateau Leoville Barton wine has everything you could want from a Left Bank Bordeaux wine it offers up notions of warm red currants, black raspberries and dark chocolate with wafts of cigar box, violets and bay leaves. This Saint-Julien wine is elegant, medium-bodied and sporting great freshness, the taut, tightly wound palate of intense red fruits and floral accents is well-framed with firm, grainy tannins, finishing on a lingering mineral note. One of the deepest, richest and darkest of the St-Juliens in 2015.  This 2015 Chateau Leoville Barton Grand Cru Classé wine is a Cellar Selection.

The 2015 Chateau Leoville Barton wine is a blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon and 14% Merlot, brought up in 60% new French oak.

97 points Wine Enthusiast
96 points James Suckling
95 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2018 Chateau Leoville Barton is a gorgeous exotic wine. Crème de cassis, lavender, menthol, licorice and cloves race out of the glass. This 2018 Chateau Leoville Barton wine marries the natural opulence of the year with a pretty classic sense of structure, making for one of the more compelling wines of the year. This 2018 Chateau Léoville-Barton wine lives up to its en primeur promise.

This estate has been on fire in recent vintages, and the 2018 Château Léoville Barton is up there with the best of them. The Chateau Leoville Barton wine is based on 82% Cabernet Sauvignon and 18% Merlot that was brought up in 60% new French oak, this classic, flawlessly balanced, straight-up awesome Saint-Julien has loads of cassis and mulberry fruits as well as notes of freshly sharpened pencils, leafy tobacco, chocolate, and earth.

97 points James Suckling
97 points Wine Enthusiast
97 points Wine Spectator

The 2014 Chateau Leoville Las Cases is a Cellar Selection wine. This St-Julien wine has all the elements in place to produce a wine that will last for years. This Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is powerful fruit, rich tannins and a structure that is built to last. This 2014 vintage is an elegant wine, an exceptional Leoville Las Cases that equals some of the Premier Crus.

This 2014 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine has a medium-bodied with wondrous purity and tension, the acidity beautifully poised and imparting the palpable sense of energy from start to finish. Where it really excels is on the finish. This 2014 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine has an exquisite structure, very complex with enormous persistence. This Chateau Leoville Las Cases is one of the best Left Bank 2014.

Picked between 30 September and 13 October over 12 days. This 2014 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is a blend of mostly Cabernet Sauvignon, with Cabernet Franc and Merlot, cropped at 33 hectoliters per hectare and matured in 85% new oak. There is 6.8% vin de presse this year.

98 points James Suckling
97 points Wine Enthusiast
96 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2015 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is simply captivating. Sumptuous, racy and explosive in the glass, the 2015 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is endowed with tremendous energy from start to finish. This Saint-Julien wine has an exotic melange of crème de cassis, graphite, menthol and licorice bursts onto the palate as the 2015 shows off its alluring personality. This 2015 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine is spectacularly rich, dense and full-throttle, with huge tannins that are nearly buried underneath the fruit, the 2015 is an unusual Las Cases. It is also breathtakingly beautiful.
Drink in 2022.

The 2015 Chateau Leoville Las Cases wine has the highest Cabernet contents in recent years, 85% and 9% of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc respectively, partly because some of the old Merlot vines were blended into the deuxième vin. Picked between 22 September and 9 October, a total of 15 days picking, it will be matured in 85% new oak. The alcohol level is 13.8%, higher than 2010 for example. Jean-Hubert Delon has crafted an extremely pure and tensile bouquet, almost pixelated with blackberry, briary, slate and oyster shell aromas that blossom in the glass.

99 points Wine Enthusiast
98 points James Suckling
97 points Decanter

The 2017 Chateau Leoville Poyferre wine has a very well defined bouquet with irresistible cranberry and crushed strawberry aromas, a lighter and more refined take on Poyferré with more mineralité than many recent vintages. This 2017 Chateau Leoville Poyferre wine has a medium-bodied with slightly grainy tannin, a fine line of acidity, more black fruit than red intermixed with tar, smoke and cracked black pepper. There is just a touch of grittiness towards the finish but otherwise this is a wonderful Leoville Poyferre with plenty of character. A ravishing Saint-Julien, the Léoville-Poyferré is also very clearly one of the wines of the vintage on the Left Bank. Drink 2022-2045.

The 2017 Chateau Leoville Poyferre wine has a blend of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, the 2017 Chateau Leoville-Poyferre saw malolactic in barrels and spent 18 months in 80% new French oak.

95 points Decanter
95 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
94 points James Suckling

The 1982 Chateau Lynch Bages wine is beautifully mature with sweet, sun-drenched black currant, fig, roasted herb and loamy soil characteristics. This Chateau Lynch Bages wine has a dark plum garnet colored. This 1982 vintage wine possesses opulent, fleshy flavors and a full-bodied finish. All the tannins are resolved, the acidity is low and this deliciously savory, rich wine is in full bloom. This 1982 Chateau Lynch Bages 5ème Cru Classéu wine was a modern benchmark for the estate.

One of the most drinkable, complex, and tasty 1982s of the northern Medoc, this wine is beginning to reach its plateau of full maturity. This Pauillac wine has a still a dense ruby purple color with some lightening at the edge, it offers up classic aromas of cedar wood, fruitcake, tobacco leaf, and creme de cassis. This 1982 Chateau Lynch Bages wine has a full-bodied, opulent, fleshy, sexy Pauillac can be drunk now with great pleasure and complexity, or cellared for another 10-15 years.

95 points James Suckling
94 points Wine Spectator
93 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate