2010 Bordeaux En Primeurs First Look and Exclusive Offers

About this Wine: The wine boasts the smoothness, velvet, depth and density of the 1995 vintage. The Vieux Chāteau Certan has all the qualities required for laying down and magnificent agein...

Wine Spectator: Rounded, with ample flesh and lots of braised fig, currant paste and roasted apple wood notes. There's more heft than cut right now, but this is pretty darn solid, with a broa...

Wine Spectator: This strides in with distinction, starting off with a showy but integrated layer of espresso-infused toast, followed by plush tiers of crushed currant, plum and blackberry fru...

Wine Spectator: This is very tight, showing a prominent roasted apple wood and bittersweet cocoa frame more today, though the core of dense currant paste, blackberry pāte de fruit and plum sa...

Wine Spectator: Bright damson plum, cherry and black currant fruit races along in this invigorating red, with mouthwatering acidity and a superfresh, iron-filled finish that has a nice rapier...

Wine Spectator: This is big, with layers of succulent blackberry, cassis and linzer torte pushed by sweet spice and a long, graphite finish. Shows lots of smoky, fleshy power, but really sail...

About this Wine: Saint-Pierre has 17 hectares of vineyards and the wine is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. It is aged in oak barrels (50% new) for 18 mont...

Wine Enthusiast: This chunky, fruity wine is full bodied and rich. It shows all the structure and weight of the vintage allied to ripe black fruits and a dense texture edged with minerality....

About this Wine: Merlot flourishes here, rather than the Cabernet, thanks to Soil rich in clay, and Jeremy manipulates the grape in order to deliver wines that are "succulent, never over-extra...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and rounded, with a velvety feel to the blackberry, blueberry and raspberry fruit. Shows nice range, with a suave finish. -J.M.

Wine Spectator: Chewy and brambly, but integrated, this carries a very hefty core of espresso, ganache, mulled plum and blackberry fruit. The purity starts to shine through on the finish, whi...

Wine Spectator: This is loaded, with layers of gorgeous plum sauce, linzer torte and blackberry fruit melding beautifully with charcoal, spice and anise. The long, dark finish has some power ...

Wine Spectator: Features a gorgeous, velvety mouthfeel, offering layer upon layer of crushed plum, warm linzer torte, steeped blackberry and anise notes, lined with black tea and well-singed ...

Wine Spectator: Sports lush, heady fig, boysenberry and plum jam aromas and flavors, with a creamy mouthfeel and lots of licorice, fruitcake and ganache notes showing on the finish. Not shy a...

About this Wine: "A beautiful svelte nose : jammy cherry toasty fruit. Still much too closed but with masses of powerful blackcherry. Sweet & pure. Well-integrated tannins...second wine of Leo...

Wine Spectator: Superfleshy but very direct, with long, racy raspberry ganache and red currant notes. Almost flashy, but stays focused through the long finish. Tasted non-blind. -J.M.

Wine Spectator: An extrovert, with enticing plum, anise and blackberry fruit and a long, supple finish. There's plenty of stuffing and grip, but this is velvety and nicely assimilated, with p...

Wine Spectator: An amped-up style, with dark, weighty, frankly toasty layers of blackberry, plum and currant fruit giving way to black licorice on the finish. Offers more raw power than fines...

Wine Spectator: Velvety plum sauce, fig and cassis fruit flavors are backed by a lightly firm edge of cocoa and tobacco. Almost chewy in the end, but with enough polish. -J.M.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 2010: Given the fact that the 2008 shows far better out of bottle than it did from cask, I would not be surprised to see the 2010's score rise after bottling. Proprietor Denis...