All Wines

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...

Wine Enthusiast, 96 points: Minty new wood aromas on a wine that shows both great tannins and sweet wood. The fruit is still to show but promises fresh plum flavors that will be delicious and juicy. Ripe concentrated wine. R.V.

jamessuckling.com, 94 points: Love the soft and velvety tannin with the milk chocolate and fruit character. Full and silky. Long and delicious. So fine. Best wine from this estate in decades. Maybe ever. Best after 2017.

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.

Wine Enthusiast, 93 points: Firmly structured dark-fruited wine very solid and dense. It has weight along with black currant fruits and acidity. It's a wine that is rich but seriously structured for aging. R.V.

Wine Enthusiast, 96 points: (WE94-96 points) Wonderful concentration here, the wine has the most powerful wood spice, ripe and mineral tannins. It is impressive in every way, showing the total richness of the vintage.

jamessuckling.com, 94 points: Sweet berry and sweet tobacco with chocolate and orange peel on the nose. Full and velvety tannins and long finish. Gorgeous. Creamy texture. Try in 2016.

Wine Spectator, 90 points: Very fresh and racy showing lemon zest and chartreuse notes along the edges of the lemon pound cake and creamed Jonagold apple core with a bouncy finish. Drink now through 2018. -JM

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Coming in at 140-grams-per-liter residual sugar, the 2009 de Fargues was picked from September 28 over three tries until October 19, a day before heavy showers curtailed the vintages. It seems to have gone into its shell...

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: Superbly ripe this wine shows upfront botrytis and honey flavors. At its core it bears opulence with depth and concentration. The open character of the wine is shot through with lemon and orange zest flavors.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: Served from an ex-chateau bottle. The 2009 Chateau d’Yquem is one showstopper of a wine and perhaps it is only in a vertical that you realize this is up there among the legendary wines of the past – the 2001 included. It...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: The all-time greatest wine I have ever tasted from Saint-Pierre this estate the smallest of the grand cru classes of St.-Julien has an opaque purple color and a spectacular nose of subtle charcoal creme de cassis...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The blend for the 2009 is mostly Merlot with some Cabernet Franc but hit over 14.5% natural alcohol. This is a big chewy wine made under the guidance of Hubert de Bouard. Dense ruby/purple with notes of blackberry and...

jamessuckling.com, 97 points: Blackberries violets and licorice with hints of lavender. Full body with phenomenal texture of ultra-fine tannins and subtle and intriguing fruit character. Goes on for minutes. Try in 2020.