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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.

The 2016 Chateau De Fieuzal Grand Cru Classe wine displays a purple tinted dense red colour with shiny highlights. This Chateau De Fieuzal wine has aromatic expression is pure and elegant. This Grand Cru Classe wine 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. This Chateau de Fieuzal wine is very refined, with exceptional tension on the palate and great concentration. Balanced, elegant and deep, this French red wine still needs to age to express its full potential.

A Grand Cru Classé of Graves, the Chateau de Fieuzal Red wine is produced in the Pessac-Léognan appellation. With an area of 68 hectares, the vineyard planted with red varieties has been converted to Organic Agriculture since 2016. The vines benefit from the characteristic terroir of Pessac-Léognan with gravelly soils.

The 2016 Chateau de Fieuzal Red wine consists of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, and 10% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot.

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

The 2018 Chateau De Fieuzal Grand Cru Classe wine has a deep garnet-purple color. This 2018 de Fieuzal rocks up with gregarious scents of baked plums, stewed cherries and dried mulberries plus suggestions of Chinese five spice, unsmoked cigars and sautéed herbs. The rich, full-bodied palate has loads of exotic spice and raisin cake layers with a firm, chewy frame, finishing just a little hard.

Blending Cabernet Sauvignon (55%), Merlot (30%), Cabernet Franc (10%) and Petit Verdot (5%), the Chateau de Fieuzal 2018 showcases the class and signature flavours of this Pessac-Léognan grand cru.

95 points Wine Enthusiast
94 points Decanter
93 points James Suckling

The 2018 Chateau de Lamarque wine has a cohesive, well-defined bouquet of vibrant blackberry and raspberry fruit, crushed rock and light sous-bois notes, sophisticated and focused. This Chateau de Lamarque wine has a deep garnet-purple in color. The 2018 Lamarque opens with exotic spice scents of cassia, star anise and fenugreek over a core of baked blackcurrants, plum preserves and blueberry coulis plus wafts of redcurrant jelly and wild thyme. The 2018 Lamarque vintage has a full-bodied, the palate coats the mouth with pure, dark fruits and a firm, ripe, grainy texture with sparks of freshness coming through on the long finish. The 2018 Chateau de Lamarque is quintessentially Haut-Médoc wine.

The 2019 Chateau de Lamarque wine has a tightly wound bouquet leaning towards the red side of the fruit spectrum, touches of wild mint emerging with aeration leading to a somewhat playful nose. The palate is medium-bodied with a very satisfyingly saline entry. This Lamarque wine evokes an estuary scene with oyster sheds, persistent with a tangy, graphite tinged finish. Undoubtedly one of the best de Lamarque wines that I have encountered from barrel.

On the edges of Haut-Médoc as it heads towards St Julien, this increasingly impressive estate has delivered a complex, well balanced wine in 2019. High levels of Petit-Verdot among the highest in the AOC give not just a deep color but also an impressively spiced chocolate feel, with acidity that leads the palate upwards on the finish and imparts some clear austerity. 33% new oak. 2.6pH, IPT87. Drinking Window 2024 – 2040

95 points JAMES SUCKLING
94 points VINOUS, Neal Martin
92 points DECANTER, Jane Anson

The 2015 Chateau De Saint Pey wine has a ruby coat reveals an intense nose of red fruit raspberry, blackberry, blackcurrant with roasted notes. The velvety yet powerful entrance is typical of the vintage. This 2015 Chateau De Saint Pey wine has a fine tannins and a harmonious wood add elegance to this bottle. On a lingering finish. This Château Saint-Pey is best served with Deli meats, Red meat, Game meat, Barbecue, and Cheese.

A few minutes from Saint-Emilion, the Château Saint-Pey vineyard covers 17 hectares of Grand Cru. With its rich soil and the diversity of its terroirs, the wines have a more precise quality level.

93 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
91 points James Suckling

The 1994 Chateau de Valandraud Grand Cru is a extraordinarily rich wine is an undeniable success. This Chateau de Valandraud wine is magnificently concentrated, it has pronounced aromas of blackcurrants and young cherries, later developing mocha aromas. The predominance of this St.-Émilion wine is the Merlot grape lends it its suave, seductive character in the mouth.

The 1994 Chateau de Valandraud Grand Cru wine has a blend of 70% Merlot and 30% Cab Franc.

93 points James Suckling
92 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
91 points Wine Spectator

The 2019 Chateau Doyac is structured, with firm tannins and layers of licorice and black coffee flavors. This Doyac 2019 wine looks extremely powerful and at the same time light and lively.

The Chateau Doyac has a thirty hectare estate, which is almost all in one plot, is in a privileged position on the limestone plateau in Saint Seurin de Cadourne in the Haut Médoc, immediately to the north of Saint Estèphe.

This 2019 Chateau Doyac wine has a blend of Merlot 64 % and Cabernet sauvignon 36 %.

The 2012 Ducru Beaucaillou was broody and stubborn on the nose: the fruit remaining off-stage while earthy, leathery notes take the limelight. The palate is medium-bodied with quite a tart entry, a keen line of acidity here that lends this energy, a sense of frisson. It settles down as it approaches the finish, gaining harmony all the time with a smooth, lightly spiced finish that lingers in the mouth.

The 2014 Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou is one of the richest, most explosive wines of the year. This St-Julien wine has fabulous aromas of crushed berries such as blackberries and blackcurrants, not to mention spices. Wet earth and cedar, too. Complex. Full-bodied, yet agile and complete. A dense center palate. Ultra-round tannins. Everything in the right balance. The 2014 Chateau Ducru-Beaucaillou wine is a quintessentially Saint Julien.

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

The 2015 Chateau Durfort Vivens wine is firm and dry, this wine blossoms quickly with its delicious fruit and penetrating acidity. This Chateau Durfort Vivens wine has fine tannins sustain this black-currant and berry fruit along with the complex texture and structure. Produced from biodynamic grapes, the wine has great potential.

This is the greatest wine ever made here. Incredible depth of fruit and power yet always polished and in reserve. Super depth of fruit. Layered. Amazing. Made from biodynamically-grown grapes.

97 points Wine Enthusiast
96 points James Suckling
92 points Decanter

The 2019 Chateau Dufort Vivens is a brilliant Margaux wine. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of blackberries, licorice, sweet soil tones, spices and rose petals. This Chateau Durfort Vivens is a full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a fleshy core of fruit, rich, powdery tannins and a lively spine of acidity. It concludes with a long and penetrating finish. The blend of this wine is dominated by fully 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, which lends the wine immense nobility.

A polished, sophisticated Bordeaux wine. This 2019 Chateau Durfort Vivens was fermented in a combination of vat and amphora. This Margaux wine feels a bit light. The 2019 vintage is among 2/3ds in new oak and 1/3rd in terracotta. Inky dark fruit, grilled herbs, lavender, pine, spice notes and a range of string Cabernet inflections are some of the signatures.

96 points Wine Advocate
95 points James Suckling
94 points Vinous