All Wines

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: 99+ A candidate for perfection with a few more years of bottle age, this great vintage of Angelus has an almost impenetrable black/purple color and a gorgeous nose of incense, graphite, blackberry liqueur, truffles and...

jamessuckling.com, 100 points: Incredible nose of currants and blueberries. Flowers too. Licorice. Such purity on the nose of Cabernet Franc. Full body incredible structure with fabulous tannins and a long long finish. Built out of stone. The prefect...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The finest Batailley I have had in many years, the dense purple-colored 2009 exhibits a boatload of tannin as well as sweet, caramelized, black currant fruit intermixed with hints of charcoal, cedarwood and smoke, a...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: This big wine (nearly 15% natural alcohol) is a blend of 77% Merlot 19% Cabernet Franc and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon. It boasts an opaque blue/purple color along with a gorgeous bouquet of charcoal incense truffles blackberry...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: This extraordinary terroir now exploited by Edouard Moueix the son of Christian seems to be coming to life in a dramatic fashion. Never a hedonistic wine but very intellectual the 2009 suggests a liqueur of crushed rocks...

jamessuckling.com, 90 points: A wine, with sliced plum and lemon character and hints of lemon grass on the nose and palate. Medium-to-full body, with fresh acidity and a clean finish. Try after 2016.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: In a somewhat tragic twist this over-achieving cru bourgeois in Haut-Medoc has turned in its finest wine to date an unfined cuvee made from 50% Cabernet Sauvignon 30% Merlot and 20% Petit Verdot created by the late...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: Made under the guidance of Hubert du Bouard this blend of primarily Merlot and a tiny dollop of Cabernet Franc (around 9%) from the limestone soils on the hillsides of St.-Emilion exhibits a dense purple color lots of...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The finest Beychevelle since the 2003 and probably since the 1982 Beychevelle's 2009 is opaque purple in color with a beautiful floral nose intermixed with black currant fruit licorice cedar wood and Christmas fruitcake...

jamessuckling.com, 92 points: A juicy wine with plum and chocolate character. Full body, with soft and velvety tannins and fruity finish. Subtle and delicious already. Better in 2016.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Haut couture becomes a wine! This dense purple wine has the tell-tale notes of flowers and pencil shavings and its broad aromatics are intense and totally captivating. Powerful rich and full but less tannic than the 2005...

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: Warm and rounded this spicy wine has wood flavors just showing through the ripe fruit. It is already delicious with rich blackberry flavors right up front although its aging potential is evident with the concentrated deep...

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: Aromas of nuts spices chocolate powder then changes to fruits and flowers. Fascinating. Full body with silky tannins and a wonderful intensity and super polished tannins with a long long finish. Super refined. Best Canon...

jamessuckling.com, 97 points: Porcini mushrooms with dark and ripe fruits. Turns to licorice and violets. Full body with round and soft tannins and a long delicious finish. The texture is gorgeous. So much going on in the glass. Try after 2018.