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WINES FROM BORDEAUX

The Bordeaux region is home to some of the finest and most prestigious wines in the world. 88% of wine produced in Bordeaux is red with notable sweet white wines such as Château d'Yquem, dry whites, rosé and sparkling wines all making up the remainder. Bordeaux wines are crafted by 10,000 producers or châteaux from the grapes of 13,000 grape growers. There are 57 appellations of Bordeaux wine.

We currently use 2 different brokers for our bordeaux wines Ginestet, and Ballande & Meneret.
For 100 years, GINESTET has been associated with the wine history of Bordeaux and its prestigious wines. Starting out as a wine broker GINESTET quickly became owner of several prestigious Grands Crus Chateaux. This double role of property owner and wine broker created in a relatively short period of time an incontestable renown as a quality wine producer in France and abroad.

Ballande & Meneret have specialised in Grands Crus Classés for more than 20 years in Bordeaux, and are today one of the leader on the export market.

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2009 CHÂTEAU DE MACARD · BORDEAUX SUPÉRIEUR
+745296 · 12x750ml

Toasty, spicy oak on the nose. Red and black fruits on the palate – ripe plum and cherry notes. There is an extra bit of ripeness here that I think is typical of the Right Bank in 2009. The character of the vintage also shows through in the fine tannins that emerge on the finish. A terrific value in an everyday Bordeaux.

STATUS: OPEN
90
Current Vintage

1999 CHÂTEAU LATOUR · PAUILLAC
+742356 · 6x750ml

70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. Big, yet racy. The '99 vintage shows blackberry aromas, with a hint of spice, and is full-bodied, with a solid core of fruit, firm tannins and a dark chocolate and coffee aftertaste. Wonderful texture. Goes on and on.

STATUS: ALLOCATED
94 93 93 93 18
Current Vintage

2000 CHÂTEAU POYFERRE · PAUILLAC
+742661 · 12x750ml

63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 8% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc. Superb. Vivid, with lovely aromas of berries, minerals, toasted oak and leather. Full-bodied, with extremely well-integrated tannins and a long finish. A wine to remember. Best ever from this estate.

STATUS: ALLOCATED
97 94 95 90 89 17.5 17 Current Vintage

2008 CHÂTEAU BELLE-VUE · HAUT MÉDOC
+744966 · 12x750ml

Château Belle-Vue 2008 displays a dense, long and powerful wine, similar to the 2006 vintage. The 2008 probably has more sweetness. Thanks in part to its higher-than-usual proportion of Petit Verdot, the natural freshness of the wine should give it ageing potential in excess of 10 years.

STATUS: OPEN
90 89 87 16.5 3 stars
Current Vintage

2008 CHÂTEAU LA MISSION HAUT BRION · MARGAUX
+744972 · 12x750ml

The 2008 Château La Mission Haut Brion is deeply colored with purple accents. Ripe black and blue fruits are easy to note in the perfume. The wine has a good concentration of suave, opulent fruit. The refined tannins, structure, and acidity give the wine body and a long, round, rich, fruit filled finish.

STATUS: ALLOCATED
90 94 95 95 18 92 5 stars
Current Vintage

2006 CHÂTEAU HAUT-MAYNE (RED) · GRAVES AOC
+737774 · 12x750ml

A dense wine, with an intense, garnet red colour, offers a spicy wellbalanced nose, with hints of the wood and very pronounced fruity aromas. Balanced and firm, full-bodied with finesse.

STATUS: OPEN
84
Current Vintage

2006 CHÂTEAU HAUT-MAYNE (WHITE) · SAUTERNES AOC
+737775 · 12x750ml

This wine, is a brilliant, pale green colour with flashes of silver, offers a complex nose of citrus fruit, white flowers and vanilla. Remarkably clean on the palate, it leaves an impression of superb balance and elegance.

STATUS: OPEN

Current Vintage

2007 CHÂTEAU L’ESPÉRANCE · CÔTES DE FRANCS AOC
+737777 · 12x750ml

This dense wine, with a deep purple colour, offers an extraordinarily rich nose of fruit in alcohol enhanced by pleasant peppery touches. Firm and round on the palate, rich and full-bodied.

STATUS: OPEN

Current Vintage

2006 CHÂTEAU LES REMPARTS DE FERRIÈRE · MARGAUX AOC
+737778 · 12x750ml

Classic deep fruit, nutty, with sweet wood on the nose. Nicely rounded character, soft and plump fruit characteristic, with a decent peppery acidity and structured tannins giving balance to the elegant finish.

STATUS: OPEN

Current Vintage

2006 L'ORATOIRE CHASSE-SPLEEN · MOULIS EN MÉDOC AOC
+737779 · 12x750ml

This vintage has a richly texture ruby colour, an expressive nose with hints blackcurrant, tobacco and leather. It presents well balanced fruit and acidity with ripe tannins on an elegant finish.

STATUS: OPEN
87
Current Vintage

2005 CHÂTEAU LE BAILLY DE CAMENSAC · HAUT-MÉDOC AOC
+737780 · 12x750ml

It is a high quality concentrated wine with plenty of ripe black fruit and density. Integrated tannins with pronounced elegant finesse, harmony and balance on a sustained finish.

STATUS: OPEN

Current Vintage

2008 CHÂTEAU DE LA DAUPHINE · FRONSAC AOC
+737782 · 12x750ml

An opulent, attractive, plump, seductive wine possessing a deep ruby, purple color in addition to a sweet perfume of raspberries and blackberries, a fleshy mid-section, and an elegant finish.

STATUS: OPEN
89 88
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2006 DELPHIS DE LA DAUPHINE · FRONSAC AOC
+737783 · 6x750ml

This the second label of Château de La Dauphine.Aged in oak barrels (of which 10% are new) for 12 months. A beautiful wine with that Delphis, nose, notes of red berries fresh. The palate is smooth, round, dominated by its fruit. It is well balanced and judiciously balanced.

STATUS: OPEN

Current Vintage

2008 CHATEAU CAMENSAC · HAUT MEDOC AOC
+742336 · 12x750ml

Balanced, ripe and spicy, Camensac 2008 offers very good value for money fun. Its lovely aromas of black cherry, strawberry and sweet spices are still a few discreet but present. The few months that separate you from them will enable them to assert themselves and the material to be refined, if it rich during the en primeur tastings.

STATUS: OPEN
91 16 15
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2008 CHATEAU LANESSAN · HAUT MEDOC AOC
+742347 · 12x750ml

An evolved perfume of roasted herbs, black currants, underbrush and forest floor is followed by an attractive, supple-textured, medium-bodied wine with very good fruit and purity. Drink it over the next 5-8 years.

STATUS: OPEN
87
Current Vintage

2009 R DU RIEUSSEC · SAUTERNES AOC
+742352 · 12x750ml

Semillon-Sauvignon blend. Some golden glints of color. On the nose, aromas of grapefruit, white peach and orange blossom.In the mouth, the attack is straight and full. The aromas of Sauvignon are very expressive but we also feel the strength of the Sémillon that is going to develop. This wine should not be served too chilled in order to preserve its aromatic qualities.

STATUS: SOLD OUT

Current Vintage

2008 CHATEAU GUIRAUD · SAUTERNES AOC
+742368 · 12x375ml

Semillon-Sauvignon blend. Typical of the huge power of Guiraud, this is one of the richest Sauternes in 2005. The wine is rich and intense, the dry edge of botrytis just dominating the sweetness. Flavors of honey, almonds and peaches give the wine extra complexity.

STATUS: ALLOCATED
97 95 91 15.5

Current Vintage

1997 CHATEAU D'YQUEM · SAUTERNES AOC
+742353 · 3x375ml

Extremely concentrated, yet subtle. Aromas of honey and spices, with an intense botrytis nose. Full-bodied, thick and fruity, with orange peel and lemon rind character. Medium sweetness. Balanced, yet thick and backward.

STATUS: ALLOCATED
97 96 95 94 18
Current Vintage

1998 CHATEAU D'YQUEM · SAUTERNES AOC
+742354 · 3x375ml

A decent lemon-gold. Showing some botrytis on the nose. Greater complexity immediately apparent. More serious wine than the 1999, for certain. Rich, oily, very concentrated. Candied fruit again, the Noble rot not showing here as on the nose. Good depth and interest though, orange and apricot flavour, and well balanced acidity. This will improve I am sure. A good wine from what is an under-rated vintage.

STATUS: ALLOCATED
95 95 95 94-96 18
Current Vintage

1999 CHATEAU D'YQUEM · SAUTERNES AOC
+742355 · 3x375ml

The 1999's light gold color is accompanied a gorgeous perfume of caramel, honeysuckle, peach, apricot, and smoky wood. Full-bodied and unctuously-textured, with good underlying acidity as well as loads of sweetness and glycerin, it looks to be a great vintage for this renowned Sauternes estate. Note: Yquem spends 42 months in 100% new oak.

STATUS: ALLOCATED
92 17.5
Current Vintage

2007 SARGET DE GRUAUD-LAROSE · ST. JULIEN AOC
+720261 · 12x750ml

Sarget de Gruaud-Larose is the second wine of Deuxième Cru, Château Gruaud-Larose. Iron fruit on the nose here, dark and restrained, lightly crunchy, tinged with violets. The palate has a lean elegance, well composed but not particularly concentrated. It has a rather solid outer shell, but I can't deny that it is attractively fresh and clean for the vintage.

STATUS: ALLOCATED
89
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2008 LAROSE DE GRUAUD · ST. JULIEN AOC
+737781 · 12x750ml

From Chateau Gruaud Larose – a classified 2nd growth. Very aromatic with hints of wet stone, mineral, cedar and warm black currant. Like any Old World wine, this speaks to the terroir. The flavor profile shows rich blackberry, coffee, currant, fig paste and cocoa powder resulting in an elegant, yet rich display of fruit. Supple tannins are balanced by the slightest glimmer of acidity. Still a bit tight, as it could use another couple years in the bottle.

STATUS: ALLOCATED

Current Vintage

1995 CHÂTEAU FERRIERE · MARGAUX
+742341 · 12x750ml

The 1995 exhibits an impressively saturated ruby/purple color, and an attractive nose of sweet toasty oak, licorice, and jammy black fruits. In the mouth, the attack begins well, with good ripeness, purity, and fruit, but it narrows out with an uninspiring mid-palate, and gobs of tannin in an astringent, tough-textured finish. The tannin should become better integrated with another 4-5 years of bottle age.

STATUS: SOLD OUT
94 87 16 87 5 stars
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2008 CHATEAU CHASSE SPLEEN · MOULIS-EN-MEDOC AOC
+742337 · 12x750ml

A finely wooded wine, with a good balance between the ripe tannins, the bright berry fruits and fresh acidity.”

STATUS: SOLD OUT
91 16
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2008 CHÂTEAU LYNCH-MOUSSAS · PAUILLAC AOC
+721265 · 12x750ml

The wine produced here was classified as one of the eighteen Cinquièmes Crus (Fifth Growths) in the Bordeaux Classification of 1855. AA dark plum/ruby/garnet color is accompanied by aromas of damp earth, forest floor and sweet red and black currant fruit, ripe tannin and medium body. This well-made effort can be enjoyed now and over the next 7-10 years.

STATUS: SOLD OUT
88 89 16
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2008 CHÂTEAU DURFORT-VIVENS · MARGAUX AOC
+721262 · 12x750ml

The 2008 showed crunchy red fruits on the nose, slightly vegetal at the moment but with attractive plumpness to balance the structure which is based on lively acidity. Needs time to settle down but it has all the components needed to come good with time. Drink 2014 – 2020.

STATUS: SOLD OUT
89 88 16.5
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2003 CHÂTEAU DASSAULT · ST. EMILION AOC
+721263 · 12x750ml

Deep brick red robe with an amber-coloured meniscus. Superb bouquet of ripe fruit compote, vanilla barrel oak, truffle and black pepper. Very more-ish on the palate, packed with fruit and a creamy texture with tasty tannins. Long and generous on the finish. A very good wine to enjoy now or keep for 3-5 years more.

STATUS: SOLD OUT
90 88 16.5
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2008 CHATEAU BEYCHEVELLE · ST. JULIEN AOC
+742335 · 12x750ml

Made in a seductive, soft, charming style, the 2008 Beychevelle is destined to be drunk during its first 15 years of life. It is a sensual St.-Julien offering pretty raspberry and cranberry fruit as well as hints of darker fruits on the palate. With soft tannins and good purity, this is a medium-bodied, well-made, evolved, forward 2008. Drink 2009-2024.

STATUS: SOLD OUT
90 17
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2008 CHATEAU CLERC MILON · PAUILLAC AOC
+742339 · 12x750ml

The dense ruby/purple-tinged 2008 Clerc Milon offers attractive aromas of toast, black currants and forest floor. Deep, full-bodied, rich, elegant and moderately tannic, this impressively endowed 2008 is an outstanding success from the Mouton Rothschild staff (who are responsible for making this wine). It will benefit from 2-3 years of bottle age and should drink well for 15 years.

STATUS: SOLD OUT
93 90 90 16.5
Current Vintage Past Vintages

2008 CHATEAU PHELAN SEGUR · ST. ESTEPHE AOC
+742352 · 12x750ml

A sleeper of the vintage, the 2008 is the finest Phelan-Segur since the 1990. It possesses a dense ruby/purple color as well as loads of blueberry and cassis fruit intertwined with hints of charcoal and that unmistakable floral note that appears in many of the 2008s. Medium to full-bodied with abundant fruit, soft tannins, and obvious near-term appeal, it should last for 10-12 years. Drink 2009-2021.

STATUS: SOLD OUT
90 90 17.5 88
Current Vintage Past Vintages

1995 CHÂTEAU CALON SEGUR · MARGAUX
+745418 · 12x750ml

1995 Calon Segur offered cassis, earth, spice and tobacco aromas. Full bodied, powerful and tannic in style. For a wine from a vintage that is slowly earning the sobriquet of a modern day version of 1975, the wine was already approachable. Still young, this robust, masculine style of St. Estephe will improve over the next several years.

STATUS: SOLD OUT
95 92 95 17.5 91 5 stars
Current Vintage

2008 CHATEAU LAGRANGE · MARGAUX AOC
+742346 · 12x750ml

This dense red exhibits a tangy damson plum note that leads the way for iron and lilting black tea flavors, all followed by darker charcoal and fig character. There's a nice ying-yang of velvet and iron on the finish. Drink now through 2019. 25,000 cases made.

STATUS: SOLD OUT
91 91 90+ 16.5
Current Vintage Past Vintages