2010 Bordeaux En Primeurs First Look and Exclusive Offers

About this Wine: Volnay, admired for its delicacy, its sap, and its bouquet, has always been thought of as the most feminine of burgundies. Though certain of its terroirs modify this judgm...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Morey St. Denis Vieilles Vignes comes across as floral and ethereal, in large part owing to the use of 50% whole clusters. Sweet spices and rose petals add complexity...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (50% vendange entier): Good bright, dark red. Very ripe black fruits and peppery spices on the nose; distinct hints of surmaturite. Big, sweet, ripe and rich; in a rather p...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Pure but subdued aromas of blackberry and violet. Juicy, pure and nicely delineated, with sound acids framing and lifting the purple berry and floral flavors....

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Morey St. Denis Le Chenevery is rich, sumptuous and beautifully balanced. All the elements are woven together gracefully in this deeply expressive wine. Underlying mi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Morey St. Denis Aux Charmes shows gorgeous aromatic lift and sheer energy. Deep, spiced notes meld into black fruit, mineral and flowers as the wine opens up in the g...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (100% vendange entier): Good dark red. Distinctive nose offers fresh mint, minerals and peppery spices. Sweet and lush on entry, then vibrant and energetic in the middle, w...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (just one barrel; vinified with 50% whole clusters): Good full red. Sexy, perfumed aromas of blackberry, mocha, dried flowers and underbrush. Silky-sweet, creamy and stuffe...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Charmes-Chambertin (from a parcel in Mazoyeres) possesses fabulous energy and intensity in a style that is at once powerful yet feminine. Intense layers of mineral-in...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (one-third new oak): Bright ruby-red. Hints of game, sexy oak and minerals on the nose. Sweet, suave and seamless; more complex than the 60 Ouvrees but less obviously vibra...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright, dark red. Very ripe, musky aromas of red berries, cherry, spices, mocha and underbrush. Sappy and supple, with harmonious acidity giving shape to the seamless red fr...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (from a half-dozen different parcels): Good bright, deep red. Musky, ripe, slightly reduced aromas of cherry and black raspberry. Sweet plummy fruit complicated by saline an...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright medium red. Reticent aromas of black cherry, licorice and stone. Sweet, supple and rather pliant, albeit with a slightly medicinal dark fruit character dominating. L...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright, full red. Sexy reduction to the aromas of redcurrant, cherry and spicy oak. Sweet, chewy currant fruit is serious and solid without showing any edges. Finishes...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright medium red. Reticent aromas of redcurrant, tobacco and dusty spices. Supple, spicy, round and deep, with very good stuffing and structure and impressive medicinal res...

Christopher Massie: There are few if any producers who outshine Geoffroy Choppin de Janvry in the village, and as the crystalline ruby red robes across the range for his 2010s attest, he's at the...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Corton Rognet is utterly beguiling from the very first taste. An exotic bouquet redolent of incense, tar, licorice and smoke melds into a core of expressive dark frui...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Nuits St. Georges Les Pruliers is one of the more immediate of the 1er Crus at Taupenot-Merme. A burst of dark red fruit flows through to the juicy, expressive finish...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin Bel Air is another totally gracious wine. Layers of ripe red stone fruit, crushed rocks, white flowers and minerals flesh out in this gorgeous Gevre...