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The 2019 Chateau Fombrauge is a gorgeous wine that shines on all account. This Chateau Fombrauge is another sweetly fruited, sexy Saint-Emilion with loads of black fruits, tobacco leaf, graphite, chocolate, and violet aromas and flavors. It packs tons of fruit on the palate as well as no hard edges, remarkable purity of fruit, silky tannins, and a great finish.

Chateau Fombrauge is one of the oldest estates in Saint-Émilion. The magnificent property has a charterhouse dating from the 17th century. Under the leadership of the Dumas de Fombrauge family, Chateau Fombrauge has become a real model for Bordeaux viticulture. This Bernard Magrez property shines today as one of the most beautiful of Saint-Emilion.

95 points Jeb Dunnuck
94 points Vinous

The 2019 Chateau Fourcas Dupre wine has a deep garnet-purple color. This 2019 Chateau Fourcas Dupre charges out of the gate with bold, expressive scents of baked blueberries, crushed black plums and cassis with hints of sandalwood, pencil shavings and menthol plus a waft of aniseed. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is charged with wonderful energy, featuring bright, black, crunchy fruit and a velvety texture, finishing with fantastic freshness.

In the Médoc history, vines already appear in the place called Fourcas in the eighteenth century, as evidenced by the cartographic work of Belleyme, under Louis XV. Fourcas Dupre took its name in 1843, when Maître Jean Antoine Dupre became the owner. Since 1970, the Pages family has maintained the same state of mind meticulousness, know-how and passion.

This 2019 Chateau Fourcas Dupre wine has a blend of 50/50 Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with a tiny bit of Petit Verdot.

93 points Wine Enthusiast
93 points Wine Advocate
91 points James Suckling

The 2015 Chateau Giscours wine has a beautiful, clean, pure bouquet of generous ripe black cherry, raspberry and crushed violet aromas that could only come from Margaux. This Chateau Giscours wine has a medium-bodied palate is quite dense but wonderfully poised, offering sappy red fruit and very fine tannin and delivering impressive detail on the bay leaf and tea leaf finish. The 2015 Chateau Giscours wine is a Cellar Selection it is concentrated and elegant, very age worthy and not likely to be ready before 2025.

97 points Wine Enthusiast
96 points James Suckling
95 points Decanter

The 2018 Chateau Giscours is always a significant wine. This Chateau Giscours latest release with a powerful wine while also stylish black fruits fits into a well-regarded tradition. This great Margaux wine harmoniously combines power and finesse with exceptional ageing potential. During the tasting this wine delights with its sweetness, its enveloping tannins and its aromatic intensity, underpinned by superb freshness.

This 2018 Chateau Giscours has a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (55%), Merlot (39%), and Petit Verdot (6%).

97 points James Suckling
96 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points Decanter

The 2018 Chateau Gloria wine has a deep garnet purple colored. Aromatic black fruit, finely scented without excess sweetness or ripeness. This Chateau Gloria wine is full-bodied with a firm texture of ripe, grainy tannins. This St-Julien wine has a lively line cutting through the dense, savory layers, finishing on a lingering spicy note. A very classy St Julien wine that may warrant a higher score down the line.

This Chateau was created in the 1950’s by the late Henri Martin who was also the regisseur of Chateau Latour. Along with big brother Saint Pierre, the quality here has improved massively in the last few years and this is a top St Julien performer these days. Chateau Gloria is fast becoming one of the most exciting insider wines of the entire Bordeaux region, and that rare species of a non-classified St-Julien.

This 2018 Chateau Gloria wine has a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc. Usually St Julien’s best value.

94 points Decanter
94 points James Suckling
94 points Wine Spectator

Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2016 Grand-Pontet features bright, vibrant kirsch, warm redcurrants, blackberries and wild blueberries notions with hints of tobacco, tilled soil and underbrush. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is built like a brick house, with firm, grainy tannins and a lively line lifting the fruit to a long minerally finish.

The 2018 Chateau Grand Pontet wine is beautiful, with vivid cassis, red currants, spice box and graphite aromas and flavors. This Chateau Grand Pontet wine has aromas of raspberry jam, espresso and sweet tobacco build in this very pretty and expressive Saint-Émilion. This Chateau Grand Pontet wine nicely concentrated, has good intensity, a beautiful sense of elegance and purity, and both the freshness and richness of the vintage.

A Grand Cru Classe of Saint-Emilion, the Chateau Grand Pontet 2018 offers the experience of a great red wine from the right bank of Bordeaux in an exceptional vintage. This 2018 Chateau Grand Pontet wine is a blend of Merlot (70%), supplemented by Cabernet Franc (17.5%), Cabernet Sauvignon (7.5%) and Malbec (5%). The wine is aged in oak barrels (90% new wood).

92 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
92 points James Suckling
92 points Wine Enthusiast

The 2018 Chateau Grand Puy Ducasse wine is just as impressive as it was en primeur. The Grand Puy Ducasse wine is richly textured Pauillac loaded with character. This 2018 vintage presents a beautiful purple-garnet color. The aromatic bouquet opens with beautiful notes of black berries, cassis and spice.

This French red wine has notes of cedar, a signature of the great wines of Pauillac, and pencil lead appear when the wine is swirled in the glass. On the palate, the wine rolls out a beautiful texture, a powerful structure with dense tannins and slight woody notes, while maintaining a great freshness in the mouth. A very nice 2018 vintage for Chateau Grand-Puy Ducasse, which will blossom fully by 2024-2038.

The Grand Vin of the property, the 2018 vintage of the Chateau Grand Puy Ducasse wine is made from a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (70%) and Merlot (30%).

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

The 2019 Chateau Grand Puy Ducasse wine is class personified. Just as in barrel, from bottle Grand-Puy Ducasse possesses terrific freshness and energy in place of the heavy, extracted style that was the norm just a few years ago. Readers will find a Pauillac endowed with tons of transparency and tons of sheer class. The 2019 Chateau Grand Puy Ducasse is wonderfully sophisticated in every way.

The Grand Vin of the property, the 2019 vintage of the Chateau Grand Puy Ducasse wine is made from Cabernet Sauvignon (53%), supplemented with Merlot (47%).

96 points Wine Enthusiast
95 points James Suckling
95 points Vinous

A beautiful Pauillac, the 2018 Chateau Grand Puy Lacoste has a classic nose of ripe blackcurrants, scorched earth, cedarwood, and tobacco. This Chateau Grand Puy Lacoste wine carries to a medium to full-bodied 2018 offering wonderful balance, ripe, polished tannins, and gorgeous purity of fruit. A Red wine that grows on you with time in the glass, it has building mid-palate depth and tannins, again, terrific balance, remarkable purity of fruit, and outstanding length on the finish.

One of the most classic wines in the Left Bank in 2018, this Grand Puy Lacoste is super-impressive right out of the gate. Ultimately a wine of tremendous class that remains restrained and aristocratic in breeding. The blend has a majority of Cabernet Sauvignon (78%) whose character and charm so perfectly express the richness and quality of this distinguished terroir.

96 points Vinous
95 points Decanter
94 points James Suckling

The blend of Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2014 is a majority Cabernet Sauvignon (76%) which offers a nice balanced structure and illustrates the potential of the vineyard. This wine has an enticing, dark and very intense, ruby colour. The bouquet reveals aromas of ripe black fruit and cassis complemented by spicy notes with great freshness. The palate is precise and dense, evolving into charming and well rounded tannins with good length and structure. The overall impression is one of purity and elegance. This 2014 is once again a beautiful expression of the potential held by the terroir of Grand-Puy-Lacoste, this wine will be part of the great lineage of Grand-Puy-Lacoste vintages.

The 2016 Chateau Haut Bages Liberal wine has turned out beautifully. Rose petals, lavender and sweet red cherry are some of the notes that grace this fine, translucent Pauillac wine. This Chateau Haut Bages Liberal wine has a medium in body and precise, with exquisite finesse and nuance, the 2016 is incredibly expressive today. This 2016 Chateau Haut-Bages Libéral is a fabulous showing from proprietor Claire Villars Lurton. You would not describe this as a potentially exciting Pauillac, but I suspect it will be delicious once in bottle. Drink this wine from 2025.

The Liberal family has headed Chateau Haut Bages Liberal since the beginning of the 18th century. Over time, these fine connoisseurs have brought together the best terroirs in Pauillac. This grand cru on the left bank of Bordeaux has been owned by the Villars family since 1983, who has restored Chateau Haut Bages Liberal to its former glory by undertaking a total reworking of their vinification tools and orienting their vineyard management towards sustainable viticulture.

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

The 2017 Chateau Haut Bages Liberal wine is dense, powerful and quite rich. This Chateau Haut Bages Liberal wine presents a beautiful aromatic freshness, a dense tannic structure as well as a rare elegance and balance. The 2017 Chateau Haut Bages Liberal wine is made from a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (70%), Merlot (30%).

The Liberal family has headed Chateau Haut Bages Liberal since the beginning of the 18th century. Over time, these fine connoisseurs have brought together the best terroirs in Pauillac. This grand cru on the left bank of Bordeaux has been owned by the Villars family since 1983, who has restored Chateau Haut Bages Liberal to its former glory by undertaking a total reworking of their vinification tools and orienting their vineyard management towards sustainable viticulture.

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

The 2015 Chateau Haut Batailley wine has a blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon and 28% Merlot, matured in 60% new oak. It was picked between 21 September until 2 October. It is a level up from the 2015 Lacoste Borie with much more fruit intensity: blackberry, boysenberry, tobacco and cedar aromas. It gathers momentum in the glass and develops a subtle mint accent. The palate is medium-bodied with supple, lithe tannin, very well balanced with just a slight tinniness that will disappear by the time in bottle. With very good substance and impressive length, this is a classic Pauillac that I suspect will offer 25 or 30 years of pleasure.

94 points James Suckling
94 points Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
91 points Wine Spectator

The 2019 Chateau Haut Batailley wine is an attractive, elegantly styled wine that has lots of juicy Merlot notes of black cherries, graphite, scorched earth, and spice. This Chateau Haut Batailley has a rich, medium to full-bodied, beautifully balanced, and with terrific purity on the palate, this brilliant Pauillac.

The grand vin 2018 Chateau Haut Batailley is a beauty and is comprised of 59% Cabernet Sauvignon and 41% Merlot brought up in 60% new French oak.

95 points James Suckling
95 points Jeb Dunnuck
95 points Wine Spectator

A big, powerful wine, the 2012 Chateau Haut Brion possesses stunning richness and intensity. This Chateau Haut Brion from Pessac-Léognan possesses remarkable depth and tons of raw, animal power that is going to require considerable time in bottle to soften. This Chateau Haut Brion wine is certainly one of the candidates for the wine of the vintage, with a dense purple color, classic nose of crushed rock, lead pencil shavings, black raspberry, blueberry and flowers. This is a Cellar Selection which is a powerful wine will need many years.

Chateau Haut Brion is Bordeaux oldest Grands Crus, with a wine making history dating back to the 5th century. From only 46% of the production, this is an absolutely remarkable effort from the Dillon family and their winemaking team of the two Jean-Philippes.

This 2012 Chateau Haut Brion wine has a blend of 65% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Cabernet Franc.

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