From the famous family of Comte de Neipperg, the 2005 D’Aiguilhe is sensational and may be one of the best cuvées I have ever tasted from Neipperg and his Côtes de Castillon estate. This wine has an opaque purple color and loads of Christmas fruitcake, licorice and crushed chalk along with plenty of blackcurrant and blackberry fruit. Full-bodied, rich, still structured and tannic, but super-concentrated, this is an amazing effort in 2005. Give it another several years of bottle age and drink it over the following 20 years. - Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The 2005 Château D'Aiguilhe showed beautifully, with red and black fruits as well as smoked tobacco, crushed stone, and graphite. It's rich, medium to full-bodied, has a beautiful sense of freshness, and is drinking incredibly well. It's better than many a Saint-Emilion!