2010 Bordeaux En Primeurs First Look and Exclusive Offers

Wine Spectator: Really vibrant, with lovely notes of plum, violet and cherry preserves laced with chalky cut that stretches out the finish. Very, very solid. -J.M.

Wine Spectator: Really vibrant, with lovely notes of plum, violet and cherry preserves laced with chalky cut that stretches out the finish. Very, very solid. -J.M.

About this Wine: These wines are simply younger and their roots have yet to grow to their full depth in the gravelly soil. Powerful, very aromatic, long on the palate, with a very persiste...

Wine Spectator: Velvety and inviting, with lovely dark plum and blackberry fruit, followed by a long, caressing finish. This has some grip too, but it's nicely integrated. Should have some st...

Wine Spectator: Velvety and inviting, with lovely dark plum and blackberry fruit, followed by a long, caressing finish. This has some grip too, but it's nicely integrated. Should have some st...

Wine Spectator: Dark, grippy and very tarry, with lots of pebbly tannins driving underneath the layers of boysenberry, steeped fig and blackberry fruit. Ample baker's chocolate and dark tobac...

Wine Spectator: Nicely toasty, with a lovely broad stroke of mocha and ganache spread over the velvety core of plum sauce, blackberry coulis and steeped currant fruit. The long, polished fini...

Wine Spectator: Nicely toasty, with a lovely broad stroke of mocha and ganache spread over the velvety core of plum sauce, blackberry coulis and steeped currant fruit. The long, polished fini...

Wine Spectator: Nicely toasty, with a lovely broad stroke of mocha and ganache spread over the velvety core of plum sauce, blackberry coulis and steeped currant fruit. The long, polished fini...

Jancis Robinson: Medium-impact pear juice with quite a dry finish. Firm finish. Respectable but because it is drier than most it probably won't convert anyone.

About this Wine: "... blend of 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon...Michel Rolland has increased the percentage of new oak casks used in the maturation process and the wi...

About this Wine: "... blend of 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon...Michel Rolland has increased the percentage of new oak casks used in the maturation process and the wi...

Wine Spectator: This gushes with exotic fig sauce, mulled blueberry and blackberry fruit and enticing black tea, anise and charcoal notes. Long and very fleshy, with powerful, pure fruit in r...

Wine Spectator: Smells like cassis-dredged rosemary right now, with tangy cherry, raspberry and red currant fruit, followed by a long, tobacco- and savory-herb-filled finish. Very racy. Taste...

Neal Martin's Wine Journal: The Le Petit Bocq has impressive freshness and vitality on the nose with fresh brambly blackberry fruit. The palate is fresh and well defined with tensile tannins, ebullient r...

Wine Spectator: Supersilky, with lush plum and fig notes and a broad swath of tobacco flowing through the very rounded finish. Tasted non-blind. -J.M.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This wine has developed beautifully during its elevage, and the blend of 80% Cabernet Franc and 20% Merlot (one of the highest percentages of Cabernet Franc in all of St.-Emil...

Wine Spectator: This feels dense and unyielding now, with loads of grip supporting a dark, muscular and very backward core of bay leaf, tobacco, plum, blackberry and fig notes. Powerful, fres...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 2010: How this producer has been able to retain two of the most famous names in the wine world is a story in itself. However, this blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc h...