Wine from St Julien

Wine Spectator, 92 points: Offers violet and blackberry on the nose with tar. Full-bodied with velvety tannins and a fruity minerally aftertaste. Long and silky. Very serious for the vintage. Best after 2013. -JS

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, 91 points: Tasted blind at Southwold ’06 Bordeaux tasting. This is an impressive showing for Gruaud-Larose under blind conditions. It has a reserved, cedar, leafy nose with good definition and poise with good lift – very Pauillac in...

Wine Spectator, 94 points: #64 on 2009 Top 100; There's a great dark color to this with intense aromas of cedar wood new leather and crushed blackberry. Full-bodied with loads of fruit and a firm powerful palate. Long and mouthpuckering. A muscular...

Wine Spectator, 91 points: This displays blackberry sweet tobacco and green coffee aromas. Full-bodied with soft tannins and a caressing texture. This has a really lovely mouthfeel for the vintage. Best after 2014. 35750 cases made. -JS

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: Tasted at Bordeaux Index's annual 10-Year On tasting in London.The 2006 Château Beychevelle has a more open and more complex bouquet compared to the 2006 Talbot. I appreciate the clarity and detail here with briary, cedar...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: Very perfumed and beautiful showing blackberry and raspberry aromas with hints of vanilla. Deep and complex. Full-bodied with chewy tannins and a long powerful finish. Excellent for the vintage. Best after 2015. -JS

Wine Spectator, 93 points: Very dense and still rather reserved with dark blueberry blackberry and fig notes rolled together framed by freshly brewed espresso and Black Forest cake notes. Long and tarry through the finish with a melted licorice...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Tasted at Bordeaux Index's annual 10-Year On tasting in London and then blind at Farr Vintners horizontal, the 2006 Château Léoville Las-Cases has a very complex bouquet with heady scents of blackcurrant, kirsch, crushed...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 90 points: Tasted at the château, the 2006 Château Saint-Pierre has a ripe blackberry, kirsch, cedar and liquorice-scented bouquet that feels as if it is approaching its drinking plateau. The palate is sweet on the entry with...

Wine Enthusiast, 93 points: Beautifully dense this generous rich wine combines great fruit with a firm but sweet structure. The new wood element is still prominent but this is now beginning to blend well with the ripe fruit. To finish the tannins...