Red Wine

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 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 2018 Chateau Les Ormes De Pez wine has a distinctive harmonious spicy character, Chateau Ormes de Pez is true to its terroir. Wine lovers appreciate its opulence, elegance and well-rounded structure. Its powerful, rich and excellent tannic backbone allows graceful ageing. This has the luxurious kick of the Lynch Bages stable and is brilliant value for this level of quality.

Chateau Ormes de Pez belongs to the Médoc landscape since the 18th century. Located West of Saint-Estèphe and bordering the hamlet of Pez, the estate owes its name to a magnificent grove of elm trees, which no longer exists today. Château Ormes de Pez is the second property – after Château Lynch-Bages – acquired by the Cazes family in 1939.

The 2018 Chateau Les Ormes De Pez is mostly Merlot blended with 50% Merlot, 41% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot and aging in 45% new barriques.

94 points James Suckling
93 points Decanter
92 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

The 2018 Chateau Lilian Ladouys wine colour is rich and red, not as concentrated as some. This Chateau Lilian Ladouys wine has a juiciness through the palate, but also a sense of restraint and austerity. It feels ripe but not overripe, and well held together. A relatively gentle, appetising wine with a floral touch. This is a very intense Saint-Estèphe wine is cohesive and focused, though it needs just a little more finesse on the finish.

In 2018, the Lorenzetti family purchased two neighbor estates, Château Clauzet and Château Tour de Pez, adding these to the Lilian Ladouys vineyard to almost double its planted area to 77 hectares. These additional vineyards are composed of gravelly soils of the same level as the best blocks of Lilian Ladouys. Soils are a typically Saint-Estèphe mix of sandy-gravel and clay with some limestone deposits. The blend is 59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot, and it has 14.41% alcohol.

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

The Chateau Los Boldos Cabernet Sauvignon wine are aged in French oak barrels for 6 months. They are young, fruity, of intense colors and with soft tannins. They faithfully reflect the most emblematic varieties grown in Cachapoal Andes, and are perfect for informal and relaxed occasions. Château Los Boldos occupies a 250ha site in one of Chile’s finest viticultural areas.

The Château Los Boldos covers 250 hectares and is situated to the south of Santiago, in Chile. The vineyard is planted at the feet of the Andes, next to the village of Requinoa. The region benefits from a microclimate, which balances the differences between the daytime and nighttime temperatures. This microclimate allows a slow, long and complete ripening of the grapes. The vineyard was established in 1850 and is one of the oldest in Chili, and is planted primarily with Cabernet Sauvignon vines from France. The wines from the Château Los Boldos are produced exclusively using grapes grown on the oldest areas of the vineyard, from vines planted between 1936 and 1975.

The 2019 Chateau Los Boldos Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Reserve wine has aromas of fruits such as cherries, plums, black currants, and a touch of leather and smoke. The Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Reserve wine is well balanced, of medium body, with round tannins and a persistent ending.

Chateau Los Boldos was created in 1991 with the aim of producing premium wines from Chile. Its founder envisioned wines that would benefit from century old French winemaking techniques combined with Chile’s terroir potential and ability to produce outstanding wine grapes.

Along the years Chateau Los Boldos affirmed itself as a Premium Chilean wine producer. This was acknowledged not only by the awards and recognition achieved by its wines presence in different parts of the globe. Quality, sustainability and aim for perfection matched with a passion for wines makes Chateau Los Boldos to continue its quest for more and face the future with excitement and enthusiasm, where our wines are born, carefully crafted and bottled in their place of origin.

This Chateau Los Boldos Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Reserve wine is best paired with Beef, Lamb and Poultry.

Awards:
Bronze Medal, International Wine Challenge, United Kingdom, 2013
Bronze Medal, Decanter World Wine Awards, United Kingdom, 2013