2017 Red Bordeaux
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Chateau Cantenac Brown,
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Ch. Cantenac Brown was fortunate this year in that it escaped much of the frost. The 2017 is a blend of 67 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 33 percent Merlot aged 60 percent in new barrels and 40 percent in one-year-old barrels. Very dark opaque purple colour with notes of compact dark fruit and violets. Suave and elegant on the palate with silky tannins finishing with a bright, fresh style.
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Half-btl 12 x 37.5cl 3cs
£222.00
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£219.00
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£172.00
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 30cs
£810.00
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Chateau Palmer,
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Inky black/purple colour with a concentrated, intense nose of ripe blackcurrant and plum, sweet spice and violets. There is a lifted elegance here which is very appealing. The palate is full-bodied and concentrated, but is so fresh and mineral with juicy blackberry and bramble fruit, lots of sweet spice and herb notes. It’s complex and beguiling, with a lovely creamy texture and supple, elegant tannins. The finish is extremely long and fresh showing wonderful poise. The blend is 53 percent Merlot, 41 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 6 percent Petit Verdot. This is a great Palmer.
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D. Magnum 1 x 300cl 2cs
£814.00
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£1,606.00
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Chateau Clerc Milon,
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With red berry and strawberry fruit on the nose, this wine is a touch more open and inviting than the Armailhac. With a lovely textural mouthfeel, it is open and giving on the strong and richly fruited mid palate, with red berry and cassis fruit, and good length. Juicy and rather attractive, it is open and yet still fresh. Classy, generous and very good.
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 10cs
£312.00
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£454.00
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Chateau Lynch Bages,
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None of the Cazes properties were affected by frost this year. The 2017 has a deep garnet red with a slight purple hue. There are notes of dark fruit, blackcurrants and a little spice on the nose. The palate is medium-bodied with a suave, polished texture, grippy tannins and nice length. It’s a blend of 70 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 24 percent Merlot, four percent Cabernet Franc and two percent Petit Verdot.
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 94cs
£444.00
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Chateau Haut-Batailley,
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A blend of 66 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 34 percent Merlot, this is a serious effort. Now under the ownership of the Cazes family, this vintage will come with the new label. The nose is beautifully pure and ripe, full of cassis and a touch of eucalyptus, pepper and violet. It is brooding, and there is some depth here. There is quite some structure in the mouth too with grippy tannins, but those will settle nicely by the time this reaches your glass. The palate shows blackcurrant, hedgerow fruit, with great concentration and a beautiful freshness. A strong Haut Batailley in 2017.
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£196.00
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£2,490.00
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Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste,
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The vineyards of Ch. Grand-Puy-Lacoste were unaffected by the late frosts in April. The 2017 is a blend of 80 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 20 percent Merlot. Medium crimson in colour with an attractive, yet delicate perfume of blackcurrant, cassis, raspberry and red fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with a good, thrilling acidity and a juicy finish. Owing to the weather during the growing season, the grapes don’t have as much sugar as previous vintages which is here shown off to us in a lighter style. Attractive fine tannins.
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£110.00
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£246.00
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£142.00
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Chateau Mouton Rothschild,
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A blend of 90 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, nine percent Merlot and one percent Petit Verdot, this falls into the glass with a deep, dark colour. There are strong aromatics of dried flowers, pepper and blackcurrant. Well-structured, it has lively acidity and compact, fresh fruit with mature tannins and a smooth mouth-feel. The palate offers notes of redcurrant, cherry and cassis, with a hint of pine. There’s lovely blue fruit on the mid-palate, with great texture that builds to a long finish, with smoky mocha notes and finely integrated tannins. A compact and lovely Mouton, this is a rich wine with huge complexity that goes on and on.
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 39cs
£2,160.00
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£2,166.00
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Jeroboam 1 x 500cl 2cs
£2,435.00
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Ch. Pedesclaux,
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Ch. Pédesclaux has made an exceptionally good Pauillac in 2017. A blend of 48 percent Merlot, 47 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, thee percent Petit Verdot and two percent Cabernet Franc, it has a really good depth of cassis fruit, with finely balanced Cabernet fruit, and a nice luscious note on the mid-palate. A rich and fine long length exists, with a seamless finish.
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 30cs
£600.00
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£274.00
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Half-btl 12 x 37.5cl 8cs
£561.00
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 5cs
£552.00
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£558.00
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£398.00
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£774.00
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Chateau Pichon-Longueville Lalande,
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The blend here is 70 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 23 percent Merlot, six percent Cabernet Franc and one percent Petit Verdot. This wine exhibits flavours of blackcurrant, spice, cedar, coffee and dark fruit. Medium-bodied, with good vitality, and savoury, grippy tannins. A powerful, intense attack. Nice juice, gentlemanly and fine. Good length, fine pepper and cassis notes.
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Chateau Haut-Brion,
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Jean-Philippe Delmas compares the 2017 to 1988 because of the freshness of the acidity and the ripeness of the fruit. A blend of 53 percent Merlot, six percent Cabernet Franc and 40 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, with aromatics of morello cherry and damson fruits. The palate is fresh with silky tannins, dark, ripe fruit that really shines through on the palate and coats the mouth giving the sensation of vibrant acidity coated by expressive, blue fruit. It finishes very long with a gentle, saline finish.
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 17cs
£2,028.00
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£1,382.00
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Chateau Haut-Bailly,
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Veronique Saunders says that in 2017 the estate lost 30 percent of fruit due to frost. Dark ruby, the nose has notes of spices, cedar, dark fruit and cassis. On the palate it is medium bodied and extremely silky with high quality tannins. A blend of 60 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 32 percent Merlot, four percent Cabernet Franc and four percent Petit Verdot, it has a gentle, delicate feel in 2017 with cool fruit and a long persistent finish.
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Chateau La Mission-Haut-Brion,
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Dark ruby with attractive aromatics of blackcurrant, wood smoke and mocha, the wine is medium-bodied with a fresh, lively acidity and rich, dark fruit. It finishes long with a saline, taught minerality. The 2017 is a blend of 56 percent Merlot, 40 percent Cabernet Sauvignon and four percent Cabernet Franc.
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£1,380.00
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£1,386.00
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£950.00
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Chateau Pape Clement,
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The 2017 Ch. Pape Clément falls into the glass with a deep maroon colour. It has a delicate, expressive nose of red fruit, cassis, iron and wet stone. The blend is 49 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 48 percent Merlot, two percent Petit Verdot and one percent Cabernet Franc planted on clay gravels. The palate is medium-bodied with a lively, tannic grip. It finishes with a long, peppery, saline minerality. A complex wine which will reveal itself over many years.
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£378.00
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£384.00
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£282.00
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£411.00
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Chateau Malartic-Lagraviere,
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A glorious grand vin from Malartic Lagraviere this year, this is comprised of 65 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, 30 percent Merlot, 35 percent Cabernet Franc and two percent Petit Verdot. These beautifully expresses both the Graves terroir and 2017 classicism. Floral top notes of violets and rose lead into blueberries and red plums with needle-sharp clarity and definition. An anchor of Christmas cake and baking spices broadens the offering most enjoyably. Add to this a densely weighted palate with, fine ripe tannins and a zip of cranberries and crushed granite and all told you’re left feeling rather smug that you’ve stumbled upon this lesser-known gem.
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Ch. Latour Martillac,
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This wine shows a wonderfully fresh nose of black hedgerow fruit, with a hint of violets and a mineral elegance knitting this together. Medium to full bodied, with fresh, juicy blackcurrant, cassis and crushed rocks initially, but there is a pleasant, complex burst on the mid-palate of liquorice which adds weight. We love the structure here, the tannins are grippy now but totally balanced with a vibrant finish. A great effort.
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£218.00
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£213.00
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£1,032.00
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£1,038.00
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£165.00
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Chateau L'Evangile,
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The 2017 L'Evangile is deep garnet-purple in color, featuring a profoundly scented nose of plum preserves, smoked meats, chargrill and cigar box with touches of licorice, tapenade, tar and truffles plus an earthy waft of underbrush. The palate is medium to full-bodied with a lovely purity of black and blue fruits, accented with baking spice notions and framed by plush tannins that offer just the right amount of provocative grip, finishing long and earthy.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown - 27/04/2018, The Wine Advocate
Lisa Perrotti-Brown - 27/04/2018, The Wine Advocate
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£1,062.00
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£738.00
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Chateau Angelus,
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A blend of 70 percent Merlot and 30 percent Cabernet Franc, the 2017 has a deep crimson colour and appealing aromatics which display coffee and mocha notes with blackberry and damson fruit. Unctuous fruit and a suave texture, there is bright acidity that brings freshness and flesh. Behind the notes of berry and cassis there is a hint of mint. Powerful and rich on the palate, this is a very good Angélus which combines freshness, finesse, tension and elegance.
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£1,680.00
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£1,150.00
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Chateau Ausone,
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The vineyard of Ausone sits high above St Emilion on a limestone plateau on a calcareous clay slope. The 2017 is a blend of 55 percent Cabernet Franc and 45 percent Merlot. It falls into the glass with a dark, crimson character and displays compact, dark fruit, smoke, pepper and blackberry. Big, rich and bold, the texture is suave and envelops the mouth, leaving the sensation of a smooth and layered finish. Really very good.
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£1,410.00
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Chateau Beau-Sejour Becot,
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Situated right in the heart of St Emilion, the vines grown on the deep limestone soils of Ch Beauséjour Bécot produce a deep and concentrated wine. The 2017 displays a mix of strawberry and dark cherry fruit with a touch of spice and vanilla. The wine is rounded on the palate with firm chalky tannins that will allow it to develop into a very attractive wine in the future.
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£249.00
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£648.00
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£186.00
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