The 2010 Clos Lunelles comes from vines in the cooler Castillon region and is made by the team at Château Pavie. It's another gorgeous wine from this estate that shows how well it ages. Black raspberries, chocolaty herbs, crushed stone, and sappy flower notes all shine here, and this beauty has incredible limestone-like minerality, with pure, polished tannins, flawless balance, and a great finish. Drink 2025-2040.

80% merlot 10% cabernet franc 10% cabernet sauvignon. From an 8.5 hectare vineyard on clay and limestone plateau the vines at this property are 40 years. Yields were just 25 hls/ha. Aged in 60% new French oak and 40% one-wine-old barrels. Intense herb soy and licorice nose indicates earth and concentration. A generous entry and mid-palate of blackberry injected with an abundance of sweet black licorice. Firm and linear tannins will make this a great early drinker for those who favor luscious fruit and spice. Drink 2013 to 2023. Tasted twice.

One of the bigger, more tannic and powerful wines of the vintage, although it is only 14.4% alcohol, which puts it well below some of the blockbusters in the Cotes de Castillon, this wine exhibits wonderfully pure black raspberry, black cherry and graphite notes intermixed with hints of cedar and licorice, in a medium to full-bodied, slightly softer and less extracted style than usual. This is another sleeper of the vintage that should drink nicely for up to a decade. - Robert M. Parker, Jr.