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The 2012 Chateau Cheval Blanc wine has a medium to deep garnet colored. This Saint-Emilion wine reveals lovely cassis, warm black cherries and redcurrant jelly notions with underlying hints of cedar chest, garrigue, Indian spices and damp soil. The Chateau Cheval Blanc wine has a medium to full-bodied, it possesses wonderful energy and freshness on the palate with a beautifully poised ethereal nature and long mineral-tinged finish.

The Chateau Cheval Blanc 1er grand cru classé A is elegantly crafted beauty should enter its drinking window in a couple of years and cellar gracefully for another 20+ years.

The 2012 Chateau Cheval Blanc wine is best paired with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes. This Premier Grand Cru Classé “A”, wine is also good when matched with Asian dishes, rich fish courses like tuna, mushrooms and pasta.

96 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
95 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Wine Spectator

Chateau Clinet 2014 has a ruby-garnet appearance. Highly aromatic, the nose presents flavors of raspberry jam, blackberries, plum and licorice. These aromas then develop to reveal toasted bread, brown sugar and Jamaican pepper. Its rich, creamy texture is reminiscent of the Clinet signature. Soft and delicate, the taste includes hints of cherries and forest fruits with a rising intensity. As a whole, it is well balanced and very refreshing. This is an excellent wine, which should be enjoyed between 5 and 15 years.

Blend: 90% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Cabernet Franc

The 2013 Chateau Cos d’Estournel has a rich colour, fragrant nose with fine aromatic complexity to come, robust and slightly spicy on the palate. This 2013 Cos d’Estournel has a fine bouquet: no vegetal signs here, clean and precise with blackberry, briary and iodine scents. While it does not possess this estate’s usual complexity you have to admire the delineation interwoven into this wine. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, well judged acidity, a gentle grip in the mouth and well integrated oak. There is still some edginess on the grainy finish that will be addressed by another 3-4 years in bottle, but this is certainly one of the better 2013s and it should give 15 years of pleasure.

94 points James Suckling
94 points Wine Enthusiast
91 points Decanter

The 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine has a deep garnet-purple in color. This Cos d’Estournel wine offers up black currants, spice cake, warm cherries and plum preserves with touches of chargrill and forest floor. This 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is medium-bodied and very firm with ripe, grainy tannins, it has a good core of earthy fruit, finishing with loads of layers and freshness.

The 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is backward and broody on the nose, just like the Pagodes de Cos, but it unfurls nicely in the glass to reveal intense blackberry, graphite and light tobacco aromas. The oak is nicely integrated here. This 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is medium-bodied with impressive depth, well-judged acidity and plenty of tobacco-infused black fruit. This is a fine Cos d’Estournel wine that should give 20 to 25 years of drinking pleasure.
Anticipated maturity: 2020 – 2040.

The 2015 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is composed of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23.5% Merlot and 1.5% Cabernet Franc.

98 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Decanter

An extraordinary star of the Saint-Estephe appellation, the magnificent Chateau Cos D’Estournel really shone brightly in the beautiful 2018 vintage. The 2018 Chateau Cos D’Estournel wine was, in fact, the only Cru Classe of Medoc to be twice awarded 100 points by both Vinous and Wine Advocate. The 2018 Chateau Cos D’Estournel wine thus stands as a reward for the efforts of the property’s technical teams, who finally triumphed, through constant attention and intense soil work, over the challenges posed by this difficult vintage.

A beautiful vintage, the 2018 Chateau Cos D’Estournel wine promises a rare experience indeed. This spectacular vintage is endowed with the unique and inimitable signature style of Chateau Cos D’Estournel. With great precision, straight-forward and vibrating with a fantastic energy, the Cos D’Estournel 2018 offers an intense aromatic expression and a great richness on a palate structured by deliciously silky and perfectly molten tannins.

Balanced and powerful, the Cos D’Estournel 2018 brings together all the elements of a vintage that will be remembered as one of the best of Saint-Estephe in particular and Bordeaux in general. Radiating among the greatest wines of the appellation, the 2018 Chateau Cos d’Estournel wine is destined for age, with a tremendous potential for guard.

98 points James Suckling
98 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
97 points Decanter

The 2015 Chateau Croizet Bages wine has a bouquet of plums, cassis, earth and tobacco. This Chateau Croizet Bages wine has a medium-bodied with better weight and fruit concentration. The oak is neatly integrated and there is an attractive spicy edge on the finish. This Bordeaux wine is a vibrant and pure Pauillac exhibiting dark fruits, graphite and a touch of spice on the nose and attractive fruit expression on the palate.

The 2015 is the best vintage of Chateau Croizet Bages. Great value for its quality.

Chateau Croizet Bages is a wine estate located on the Left Bank in Pauillac, rated a fifth growth in the 1855 Classification of Médoc and Graves. Its grand vin is based on the classic Bordeaux blend, with Cabernet Sauvignon in the starring role.

90 points Wine Enthusiast

The 2016 Chateau Croizet Bages wine has a clean and well-defined bouquet with tobacco-tinged black fruit. This Chateau Croizet Bages wine displays elegance. The palate is medium-bodied with quite firm and grainy tannin. An impressive, fruit-loaded, fleshy Pauillac wine.

This red wine made from a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc. The ageing is done in barrels of which 50% of the them are new. The 2016 Chateau Croizet Bages remains great value as far as classified Pauillacs.

The Chateau Croizet Bages is a wine estate located on the Left Bank in Pauillac, rated a fifth growth in the 1855 Classification of Médoc and Graves. Its grand vin is based on the classic Bordeaux blend, with Cabernet Sauvignon in the starring role.

93 points James Suckling
93 points Wine Enthusiast
92 points Decanter

The 2015 Chateau d’Aiguilhe is a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc, picked between September 23 and October 8 at 30 hectoliters per hectare, and matured in 30% new oak barrels. It has a very ripe and opulent, quite showing bouquet with fig and date-tinged red berry fruit. The palate is very well balanced, a supple ball of red cherry and strawberry fruit, with a touch of Christmas cake and allspice towards the finish; the Cabernet Franc imparts a little edginess, with a saline tincture lingering on the aftertaste. This is a very fine Côtes de Castillon from Comtes Von Neipperg. Drink: 2018 – 2028.

The 2018 Chateau d’Aiguilhe wine has a medium to deep garnet-purple in color. This Chateau d’Aiguilhe jumps up out of the glass with exuberant notes of plum preserves, Black Forest cake and blackberry pie, plus hints of potpourri, hoisin and forest floor. The medium to full-bodied palate has a soft texture and oodles of freshness supporting the mouth-coating black fruit preserves, finishing with loads of exotic spice layers.

A magnificent expression of the superb terroirs of Castillon, on the right bank of Bordeaux, the 2018 Chateau d’Aiguilhe wine from Castillon-Côtes de Bordeaux is one of the most beautiful references of its appellation.

The product of a very good vintage for the Bordeaux region, the 2018 Chateau d’Aiguilhe wine is made from a blend of Merlot (80%), supplemented by Cabernet Franc (20%).

93 points James Suckling
93 points Jeb Dunnuck
92 points Decanter

The 2014 Chateau d’Issan is unique, recognizable thanks to its terroir. In this vintage Cabernet Sauvignon is particularly appreciated for its aromatic and gustatory outline. An unexpected and very long Indian summer allowed a slowly ripeness. The 2014 Issan is 77% Cabernet Sauvignon and 23% Merlot. The wine is original thanks to a deep, black fruit aromatic aspect with intense freshness. The palate enjoys solid balance on sophisticated, creamy and elegantly silky tannins. On the fruit, the finish fills the palate with the freshness from Cabernet. This wine is a great Troisième Cru Classé from Margaux.

The 2015 D’Issan is a total knock-out wine. Spectacularly ripe and intense, the 2015 exudes richness in all of its dimensions. This red wine has a super-ripe dark plum, lavender, spice, savory herbs, iron, smoke and new leather add myriad shades of nuance to this super-ripe, decidedly hedonistic Margaux. A powerful, dense wine, the 2015 is going to need a number of years before it is close to being ready to drink. I was quite impressed with d’Issan both times I tasted it. The 2015 has really come along nicely. The blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon and 35% Merlot, aged in 50% new oak. It is a fine Chateau D’Issan that shows great classicism. This 2015 Chateau D’Issan has a great ageing potential.

96 points James Suckling
95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points Decanter

The top wine, the 2018 Chateau D’Issan offers a beautiful, singular bouquet of blackcurrants, new leather, smoked tobacco, scorched earth, and camphor. This 2018 Chateau D’Issan wine carries to a medium to full-bodied, seamless Margaux with wonderful tannins, beautifully integrated acidity, and just a flawlessly balanced, elegant, layered style that’s going to evolve for 20-25 years. It’s one classy 2018 that has loads to love.

A great vintage for the Bordeaux region, 2018 will be remembered at Chateau d’Issan, a magnificent Grand Cru Classé of Margaux. Blending Cabernet Sauvignon (60%) and Merlot (40%), the Chateau d’Issan 2018 seduces with its intense aromas and precision. Each grape variety brings a touch of personality to this wine.

96 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Advocate
96 points Wine Advocate

The Chateau D’Yquem Sauternes 2003 has a textbook, limpid silvery/golden hue. The nose is very seductive with lifted scents of dried honey, almond, hazelnut and just a faint hint of creme caramel all with fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with a refined opening. That trait of creme caramel is there loitering like a truant schoolboy in the background, but then it moves into the mid-palate and really shows its class: wonderful delineation and poise, perfect acidity and an almost pixilated finish. There is just a touch of alcohol on the aftertaste although you have to have a very sensitive palate to feel it. The 2003 D’Yquem is a Cellar selection wine.

The 2003 Chateau D’Yquem has a blend of 80 % Semillon and 20% Sauvignon Blanc.

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

The Chateau D’Yquem wine is an outstanding Sauternes 2008 and another impressive Yquem. The bouquet of this Chateau D’Yquem wine is just wonderful, very perfumed with aromas of apricot, acacia honey and white flowers. The palate is beautifully poised, tense and tightly coiled on the entry and then it just explodes in the mouth with pure, unbridled, joyous botrytized fruit struck through with a silver thread of acidity. This 2008 Chateau D’Yquem wine displays exemplary tension and freshness, along with great persistency in the mouth. Obviously a great wine for long-term aging in a great Sauternes year.

96 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
95 points Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar
94 points Wine Spectator

The 2014 Chateau Dame de Trotte Vieille wine offers an intense, deep and almost purple color. The nose expresses large and generous aromas of black fruits. This Saint-Emilion wine has vivacity, a dense tannic structure and a fine and meticulous grain. This Chateau Dame de Trotte Vieille wine has notes of freshly picked blackberries coupled with a touch of fresh liquorice show the strengh and the structure of this wine. This charming classified growth of Saint-Emilion is one of the great classics of this vintage.

The Dame de Trotte Vieille (La Vieille Dame de Trotte Vieille until 2010), is Château Trotte Vieille 1st GCC Saint-Émilion’s second wine. The first vintage appeared in 2002. Produced then from mainly the young vines (total of 12 ha of vines), this second wine is elaborated with the same care as for a “Grand Vin”. The wine is characterized by a generous fruit brought by the softness of Merlot, associated with a high percentage of Cabernet Franc, adding mineral and aromatic hints to the intense fruit.

The 2015 Chateau De Fieuzal Grand Cru Classe displays a purple-tinted dense red colour with shiny highlights. The aromatic expression is pure and elegant. Raspberry, forest fruit and spicy notes, as well as soaked cherry fragrances can be appreciated. Even though it is restrained at this ageing stage, a note of vanilla appears. This shows that the richness of the texture will blend in with the wood. On the palate, this Pessac-Leognan Cru Classé from Graves seduces by its finesse and unctuousness. With its silky and persistent tannins, the palate impresses by its nervous finish (as a dry white wine) which is the promise of a good ageing potential.