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The 2012 Chateau Margaux wine is a Cellar Selection. This Chateau Margaux wine has a taut, linear, pencil lead-infused bouquet with pure blackberry and boysenberry scents, an undercurrent of tobacco that surfaces after five minutes in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, crisp acidity, a life-affirming sense of balance with well-integrated new oak towards the finish. The 2012 Chateau Margaux has become more structured and masculine in bottle, yet there is pedigree here from start to finish, a sense of effortlessness that is seductive. This elegant red wine is very much in the classic style of Margaux.

This First Classified Growth of 1855 benefits from vines planted on an outcrop of gravel, which is characteristic of the appellation. This 2012 Chateau Margaux wine has a blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest mostly Merlot, as well as only 33% of their harvest.

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

The 2015 Chateau Monbrison wine has a perfumed bouquet with generous red cherry, wild strawberry and rose petal scents that are neatly folded into the new oak. This Margaux wine is medium-bodied with svelte tannin, fresh fruit here with a lively and vivacious, quite fleshy finish that belies that fine tannin underneath. The 2015 Chateau Monbrison is a delicious Margaux wine.

The Chateau Monbrison is a Bordeaux wine producer located in Margaux, known for its Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant grand vin. The first vineyards at the estate were planted in the 17th century when the land was still part of the neighbouring Medoc estate, Chateau d’Arsac. In 1749 the estate became independent, trading hands from the influential Segur family to the Copmartin family. Today the estate is owned by descendants of the Davis family who have continued to manage and modernize the chateau since 1921.

93 points Jeb Dunnuck

The 2018 Chateau Monbrison is a a wine with a superb deep purple colour with ruby tints and a rich and ample bouquet, full of black fruit and tertiary notes of dark chocolate, dried herbs, toasted flavours. On the palate, the 2018 Chateau Monbrison wine offers a moderately full-bodied attack and a velvety texture. Its solid tannic structure supports the tons of black and red fruits coated with warm spices before ending with a deliciously fruity finish.

The Chateau Monbrison vineyard covers a small area of barely 15 hectares in the heart of the Margaux appellation. The vineyard’s grape varieties are dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon (50%) and supplemented by Merlot (30%), Cabernet Franc (15%) and Petit Verdot (5%). The average age of the vines is 40 years.

Known in the 1980s for its flawlessly regular wines, Chateau Monbrison has, for the past ten years or so, returned to what made it famous: refined and solid wines, made for long ageing, in the purest Margaux style!

This 2018 Chateau Monbrison wine is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes.

The 2011 Chateau Montrose wine from Saint-Estèphe appellation shows a deep garnet hue. The nose exudes lightly aniseed currant with very delicate wood. This 2011 Chateau Montrose wine offers lovely length, medium-body, and red fruits that lead to a supple finish with ripe yet precise tannins. The high concentration of Cabernet Franc creates a supple structure. Very nicely balanced Montrose wine. This 2011 Chateau Montrose is a Cellar Selection wine it has power, severity and complexity.

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

The 2012 Chateau Montrose wine has a deep ruby-red. This Saint Estèphe wine has floral, mineral nose hints at fresh blackcurrant, but this sample seems tight and closed down currently. On the palate, somewhat strict and linear flavors of blackcurrant and wet stone are lifted by a repeating note of violet. The finish is long and clean but could use more flesh.

This 2012 Chateau Montrose wine is a classic Bordeaux. Produced in the magnificent new cellars at Montrose, this big, tannic wine is powerful and concentrated. It has something of the classic severity of a wine from this estate, but that’s mitigated by the ripe, generous blackberry fruitiness and the final freshness of a 2012. This 2012 Chateau Montrose wine is a Cellar Selection.

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

The 2014 Chateau Montrose is without question one of the standout wines of the vintage. Black cherry, plum, smoke, licorice and lavender are some of the many aromas and flavors that open up in the glass. But this 2014 Montrose is a much deeper red wine than just a bunch of descriptors can conjure. In 2014, Montrose is a wine of exceptional finesse and polish. The late-ripening vintage allowed for perfect maturation of the tannins and resulted in a silky wine that exudes class and pedigree. The 2014 is not an obvious or bombastic Montrose, but rather a wine of sublime enchantment. This Chateau Montrose 2014 is a Cellar Selection, this is a very fine wine showing a new level of quality at Montrose.

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

The 2015 Chateau Montrose is without question one of the standout wines of the vintage. This sumptuous, powerful wine has a great sense of structure and tannins. This 2015 Chateau Montrose is a certainly the wine of Saint-Estèphe. Notes of cassis, damp earth, violets, and graphite and lead pencil notes all flow to a beautifully pure, elegant and multi-dimensional 2015 that has fine, polished tannin, perfect balance, and a great finish.

This 2015 Chateau Montrose is a blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc, all of which was brought up in 65% new oak.

98 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Jeb Dunnuck

The Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2003 is beautifully intense, garnet hue and a higly refined nose, rather typical of Cabernet, on aromas of blackcurrant and cedarwood along with caramel and stewed fruit. The attack is lush, the palate rich, on stylish, well-rounded tannins. Fruit flavours rub shoulders with spice, Havana cigar and eucalyptus. The finish of this Pauillac is very expressive, long and powerful, harmonious and silky. Mouton Rothschild 2003 is one of the great successes of recent years.

The 2005 Mouton-Rothschild has developed magnificently, and is even better than I remember. The final blend was 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and 1% Cabernet Franc. Stunning notes of crème de cassis, melted asphalt, roasted espresso and cedarwood are present in this young, full-bodied, powerful, concentrated Mouton. Just beginning to enter its adolescence, it should hit full maturity in 10-15 years and last for 50 or more. The greatness of this vintage is increasingly apparent as the wines throw off their cloaks of tannin.

The 2005 Château Mouton-Rothschild is a deeply impressive First Growth. It has been blessed with a sensational nose that comes racing out of the blocks with audacious scents of black fruit, cedar, smoke and pencil box (Philippe Dhalluin mentioned that the signature smokiness/fireside hearth was tangible in around 80% of the vats during élevage). There is a sense of bravura here, of aristocracy. The palate is medium-bodied with sumptuous black fruit, perhaps beginning to soften in texture, one or two years off its plateau. There are layers and layers of black fruit intermingling with graphite and black pepper, and it wisely reins everything in on the finish that is more classic in style and in keeping with the vintage. If you are fortunate enough to have this wine in your cellar, even though those tannins are starting to be abraded by time, afford it another five or six years.

The Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2006 wine is truly a masterpiece. A majestic, complex, rich, intoxicating nose with exciting, racy, pure cassis notes leads on to a sublime, multi, multi-layered palate with a precise, cool, silky core of the ripest blackcurrants with a generous dollop of double cream. This really is a spectacular, flawless wine that not only rivals the other 2005 First Growths but surpasses 2 or 3 of them.

The 2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Premier Grand Cru Classe wine has a very high proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend once again. This Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine from Pauillac displays a very rich range of aromas and flavours throughout the tasting. The first nose is intense and open: red fruit, blackberry and blackcurrant combine harmoniously with floral notes such as violet. On airing, roasted, toasted notes mingle graciously with delicate touches of cedarwood. 

This First Growth wine opens with a lively, powerful and full-bodied attack, releasing silky, velvet tannins. This 2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild has a forward fruit on black berry flavours is set off by toasted notes and a delicious touch of vanilla, while the powerful and harmonious finish displays very attractive length. This 2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine is a Cellar Selection.

The 2008 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine is rich, opulent in character. There is power here, with richness of fruit and texture. It is both serious side and exuberant, with its bursting black berry fruits.

96 points Decanter
96 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points James Suckling

The 2012 Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1er cru classe is powerful, impressive wine is comprised of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon. One of the top ten wines of the vintage, this 2012 Chateau Mouton Rothschild has a deep ruby color and perfumed nose of red berries, cassis, flint, vanilla and peppery spices. This Mouton Rothschild wine is seriously structured, with loads of black currants and dark tannin, and revels on the finish with the juicy, fresh acidity of this vintage. The palate is beautifully balanced with great vim and vigor.

A fine Mouton Rothschild, this is the first vintage produced in the chateau’s new cellar. For Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine, the 2012 vintage was year was full of contrasts. A cold and dry winter was followed by an unreliable spring and an exceedingly dry summer. The harvest began on October 1 and ended on October 15. 2012 will be a historic year as the new cellars, after almost three years of work, welcomed its first harvest.

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

The 2007 Chateau Palmer wine has a bright ruby-red. This 2007 Palmer wine has a lovely lift to the aromas of raspberry, Asian spices and flowers. Supple and intensely flavored, with an almost pinot like silkiness of texture to its red fruit and spice fla vors. This Chateau Palmer wine is very graceful, lush wine with real depth and finishes subtle, gripping and long. This Margaux wine is medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a delicately fruity finish, along with smoky wood. The 2007 Chateau Palmer wine Very polished and a true success from a demanding vintage year.

The 2007 Chateau Palmer wine has a of blend of 49% Merlot, 44% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 7% Petit Verdot, the 2007 Palmer possesses.

90 points Wine Spectator
89 points Robert Parker

The 2014 Chateau Palmer wine builds on the promise that it showed in barrel. This 2014 Chateau Palmer wine is a Cellar Selection. It is clearly a more understated and nuanced Palmer from winemaker Thomas Duroux this year, but a Margaux with exquisite delineation and precision, hints of blackberry, boysenberry and a touch of pencil box. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin. It feels supple and lithe in the mouth. It will not have the depth and power of the subsequent 2015 Palmer, yet the flow is very sensual and the Merlot (45% of the blend) just lends it roundness and a caressing texture. What a beautiful Margaux wine and I bet it will be deceptively long-lived.

The 2014 Chateau Palmer wine is up with the crème de la crème of the vintage and should merit an even higher score in 5-7 years. The 2014 Chateau Palmer wine has a blend of 49% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot and the rest Petit Verdot brought up in 65%.

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

The 2015 Chateau Palmer is a wine of total refinement and class. This Margaux wine has all the elements are wonderfully meshed together, as they always have been from the very start. This 2015 Chateau Palmer wine has a dark black cherry, plum, mocha, licorice, spice and leather notes are all seamless in the glass. The tannins are present, but they are silky and pretty much buried by the sheer luxuriousness of the fruit. An excellent vintage overall in the appellation and a brilliant Palmer. This 2015 Chateau Palmer wine is a Cellar Selection. Drink from 2027.

The 2015 Chateau Palmer wine was bottled relatively late in mid-September 2017, the 2015 Palmer is a blend of 44% Merlot and 50% Cabernet Sauvignon with a small portion of Petit Verdot. Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, it offers vibrant red currants, black cherries, wild blueberries, earth and mineral characteristics to begin, with slowly unfurling floral notes of violets and dried roses plus compelling baker’s chocolate and fragrant earth layers. Medium to full-bodied, generously fruited and possessing firm yet very, very fine-grained, mind-blowingly ripe tannins, the multifaceted palate features something of a skip in its step in terms of freshness, while it goes beguilingly earthy on the finish with some mineral hints. Very classy, elegant and sophisticated, this vintage is downright regal in its juxtaposition between poise and audaciousness. Think 2005 Palmer with a tick more fruit intensity, perfume and passion.

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

One of the wines of the vintage on the Left Bank, the 2017 Chateau Palmer wine is fresh and vibrant, with tons of energy. Veins of supporting salinity and floral overtones lend grace to the Grand Vin in 2017. The Grand Vin of the eponymous estate, the 2017 Chateau Palmer yet again confirms the excellence of its rank, having become one of the must-have’s of the Bordeaux wine market.

With a blend dominated by Merlot (54%), complemented by Cabernet Sauvignon (42%) and Petit Verdot (4%), Chateau Palmer 2017 clearly illustrates the philosophy of the estate. Perfectly balanced without being too overwhelming, this wine seduces with its harmony on the palate, developing an aromatic intensity upon a precise frame that reveals the softness of melted tannins. Bearing a unique and already magnificent style, the 2017 Chateau Palmer wine evolve remarkable over time, offering the kind of noble depth to which only the greatest Grands Crus hold the secret.

98 points James Suckling
97 points Wine Advocate
96 points Vinous