2010 Bordeaux En Primeurs First Look and Exclusive Offers

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good deep red-ruby. Reduced aromas of blackberry, licorice and smoke. Fat and sweet but reduced, with broad, rich dark fruit and licorice flavors nicely framed by harmonious...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Chambolle-Musigny Les Feusselottes sweeps across the palate with rich, textured dark cherries, flowers, mint and graphite. The fleshy fruit is nicely supported by vei...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good deep red. Pungent crushed-stone minerality lifts aromas of red berries, meat and mocha. Round and sweet in the mouth but given shape by strong, well-integrated acidity ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright red. Black cherry and a whiff of game on the nose. At once dense and precise, with lovely cut and penetration to its dark fruit and spice flavors. Thicker at th...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright red-ruby. Slightly reduced, wild aromas of black fruits, leather and fresh blood. Dense, thick, creamy and very ripe, but with harmonious acidity giving shape and lif...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good dark red. Reticent on the nose, but already boasts plenty of incipient complexity to its scents of red berries, flowers, tobacco, linden leaf and underbrush; like an inf...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright, dark red. Black raspberry, minerals, flowers and a whiff of peppery spices on the slightly reduced nose. Elegant, silky and sweet, offering lovely detail, excellent ...

About this Wine: 0.55 ha of vine planted in 1956...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good medium red. Delicate, nuanced nose offers purple fruits, violet, spices, earth, dark chocolate and smoky minerals. Stylish and light on its feet; impressively intense y...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Medium red. Smoky, chocolatey oak dominates the nose; less rustic today than the Carelle. Sweet and supple but less delicate too, with a slightly stunted quality to the blac...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright medium red. Smoky redcurrant, mocha, earth and spices on the fairly sophisticated nose; seems midway between the Pitures and Carelles in style. Concentrated and suave...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Black raspberry and smoky oak on the nose. Ripe aromas of dark berries, licorice, minerals and menthol are nicely framed by integrated acidity. The firmly ta...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Medium red. Explosive aromas of red berries, licorice, chocolate and underbrush. Not particularly fleshy but juicy and sharply delineated, with terrific cut to the tangy dar...

About this Wine: 0.40 ha of vine planted in 1962...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Aromas of wild raspberry, blackberry, black cherry, violet and smoke, with a whiff of noble reduction. Dense, sweet and vibrant if not hugely complex. The ...

Jancis Robinson: Quite dark ruby. Interesting tension on the nose. Lots of gas and race. Juicy and very electric. Punchy. Slight bitter damsons on the finish.

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Exotic aromas of cherry, raspberry and mocha. Quite smooth and complex in the early going, with surprising fullness to the flavors of blackberry, clove, woodsmoke and mocha. ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright red. Musky red fruits and minerals on the pure nose. Supple and expressive on the palate, with considerable richness and inviting sweetness to the sappy dark raspberr...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Pommard Combes-Dessus is wonderfully juicy in its expressive red fruit. This is perhaps the most supple, forward and engaging of the domaine's 2010s at this stage, wh...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Nuits St. Georges Cuvee Le Petit Arlot comes across as deep and muscular. Layers of dark cherry and plum lead to menthol, spices and minerals blossoming on the palate...