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The 2014 Chateau Canon wine has a very well defined and has a precise bouquet with ebullient raspberry and wild strawberry scents infused with minerals. This St-Emilion wine has aromatics which are utterly captivating. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and very well-judged acidity. There is tension and poise to this Saint Emilion wine, gently fanning out with a delicate spicy finish that lingers long in the mouth.

Though surely destined to be over-shadowed by the extraordinary 2015, this Canon wine deserves a berth in your cellar. This 2014 Chateau Canon is outstanding for the vintage, a sublime wine that might dare rank alongside the 2009 and 2010.

The 2014 Chateau Canon wine is a blend of 72% Merlot and 28% Cabernet Franc, the estate moving towards the latter in terms of its new plantings, which will possibly see 40% in 15 or 20 years time. It was picked from 22 September until 6 October for the Merlot and three days later for the Cabernet Franc, matured in around 80% new oak. Drink date 2020 – 2050.

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

The 2018 Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere wine is bright, punchy and full of character, just as it was from barrel. This 2018 Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere wine has a fantastic depth and richness to the nose with plums, mushrooms, bark and some mahogany. The red wine has a full-bodied, tight and focused with very fine tannins and a long, creamy finish. Sage, blood orange, mocha and spice add pretty aromatic top notes to a core of inky red purplish berry fruit. This 2018 Chateau Canon La Gaffelière wine has all the elements are so well balanced in this super-expressive Saint-Émilion. Bright floral and savory Franc notes punctuate the salivating finish, mineral-drenched finish.

Another beautiful vintage for this cuvée, the 2018 Château Canon La Gaffeliere is based on 50% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon, brought up in 50% new French oak, with the balance all in used barrels.

A prestigious Premier Grand Cru Classe of Saint-Emilion, Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere has produced in 2018 another successful vintage. Chateau Canon La Gaffeliere enjoys an exceptional location, at the foot of a hill, south of the village of Saint-Emilion, on the right bank of Bordeaux.

96 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Spectator
96 points Wine Enthusiast

A rich, exotic wine, the 2015 Chateau Cantenac Brown is simply stunning. This 2015 Chateau Cantenac Brown wine has a fresh, perfumed bouquet of raspberry, wild strawberry and cedar aromas that feel very focused and cohesive. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit and gentle grip, and quite saline in the mouth, leading into a spicy, vivacious. There is breeding interwoven into this Margaux, palpable sophistication, and it finishes with panache, fanning out with lightly spiced red and black fruit. The 2015 Chateau Cantenac Brown wine is quite concentrated and extracted in style, and yet all the elements are wonderfully fused together. This impressed in barrel just as it does here. Highly recommended. Best from 2022 through 2035.

96 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Decanter
94 points James Suckling

The 2019 Chateau Carbonnieux wine has a deep purplish ruby hue to go with a brilliant nose of red and black currants, spring flowers, spicy oak, and hints of tobacco. This Chateau Carbonnieux wine is beautiful on the palate as well and is medium to full-bodied, has a seamless, elegant texture, ripe tannins, and a great finish. It’s the finest wine I’ve tasted from this estate.

Founded in the 13th century, Chateau Carbonnieux is located in the Pessac-Léognan appellation and is one of the oldest wine estates in Bordeaux. In 1956, Marc Perrin acquired the chateau, which became a Classified Growth in 1959 for its Red and White wines.

This 2019 Chateau Carbonnieux wine has a blend Cabernet sauvignon (60%), merlot (30%), cabernet franc (5%), petit verdot (5%).

94 points Jeb Dunnuck
94 points James Suckling
93 points Wine Enthusiast

The 2006 Chateau Cheval Blanc 1er grand cru classé is a blend of 55% Merlot and 45% Cabernet Franc. It has the most floral bouquet of the four Serié A Grand Cru Classé: an explosion of crushed violets and potpourri, hints of leather and cigar box, the Cabernet Franc clearly lending this complexity and character. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. It feels wonderfully structured and comes with an insistent grip that coats the mouth. This is backward and almost surly, but you have to stand back and admire the precision and arching structure on the mineral-rich finish.

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

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