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2009 Château Broustet - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

"At 130 g/l residual, this is an unusually sweet style for this chateau. It has pronounced spicy, quite roasted and barley-sugar flavours and quite a low alcohol (13?4), whilst the acidity is quite high, all this providing a wholesome quite early-drinking wine that will certainly also not break the bank."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

~~Regular price $18.99~~

SALE! $15.99

2009 Château Caillou - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

Bottle: $22.99

Case Price (12): $250.00

2009 Château Cantegril - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 91

"Denis Dubourdieu's other Barsac estate has produced a very similarly rich (153 g/l residual) blend to his Doisy Daene, similarly styled yet with a point more obvious acidity and a softer form of middle-fruit."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $18.99

Case Price (12): $209.00

2009 Château Climens - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

WE 99

WA 98

Picked in just two tries, 90% picked in one trie, tasting through 13 separate lots, the core components of a great Climens appear to be in place. Paying particular attention to the lots that constitute a large percentage of the blend (usually around 15%) the common themes are ones of great purity, persistency and precision. The aromatics display pure honey, minerals, occasionally a faint scent of spearmint and white peach, most with spellbinding precision. On the palate, Berenice Lurton has some stupendous lots at her disposal, with ample botrytis, ethereal definition, one or two more powerful, quite spicy lots and others that are shorter and will undoubtedly lend the blend an acidic cut. It will be a joy to taste this after bottling. —Neal Martin, Read More

~~Regular price $69.99~~

SALE! $49.98

2009 Château Clos Haut-Peyraguey - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 93

"This just has to go down as one of the great successes of the vintage. Just to check, I tasted it blind against the Second Growths and its superiority shone out; then against other Firsts, and its combination of lush concentration and an elegant 'lift' put it right there at the top. At a quite moderate 136 g/l of residual, and an alcohol and acidity that are almost identical to the '07, this is the kind of 'nervous' balance that many larger estates would maybe have preferred to achieve this year. In that, it is one of the few wines to resemble the '01, and is maybe even superior."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $39.99

Case Price (12): $440.00

2009 Château Coutet - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

Bottle: $49.99

Case Price (12): $550.00

2009 Château de Fargues - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 97

"How absolutely refreshing the more acid nature of Fargues is in a vintage of such richness! It acts as a veritable flavour enhancer, bringing out the strongly mineral character of the terroir and the forceful tea and cinnamon flavours of the botrytis, still noticeable even after 6 months of ?levage. This is a broadly constituted, strong flavoured, quite forceful Sauternes (Maybe it wasn't by chance that Comte Alexandre served the almost equally strong ?83 for lunch after our last tasting). It has clearly been built for the long haul, not only for the extra year of ?levage in barrel that they do here, but also for really long-term cellaring in bottle."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $89.99

Case Price (12): $990.00

2009 Château de Malle - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 90

"This is a straight, tight-structured wine, not at all lush or overtly sweet. I was totally surprised when told it was up at 140 g/l. residual. The flavours are slow to develop but certainly all there, in the form of mint and orange-peel. This is very reserved and if it ends up as it is now, will certainly turn out to be a great food wine."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $23.99

Case Price (12): $264.00

2009 Château de Myrat - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

"Here is another very rich and strong wine. It checks in at 14?0 alcohol and 150 g/l residual, and is full of ripe, quite roasted flavours. Yet it has tremendous freshness, partly from the quite high acidity and also from the 'lift' that it's chalky Barsac subsoil certainly provides. So, in the mouth, as well as being very rich, it is also very fresh."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $25.99

Case Price (12): $289.00

2009 Château Doisy-Daëne - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

"Denis Dubourdieu considers this vintage to be the finest produced by him, his father and his grandfather! He is a great proponent of the preservation of fine fresh botrytis fruit flavour and usually eschews any excess sweetness that he considers may smother it.

This year, however, he has found a much sweeter balance, at 155 g/l residual, but this in no way compromises the freshness of the spring flower aromas and white peach fruitiness (there is little of the usual dried apricots this year) and it is all balanced by a quite high acidity (4.5 g/l). The result is an unusually sweet but very complete and complex wine that will certainly age for ever.

Denis has also managed to produce 7 barrels of 'Extravagant', a 50-50 Sauvignon - Semillon blend this year, with 12? of alcohol and 320 g/l residual. It is a very fat style of wine, more on its power than the slightly more fruit-driven '07."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $34.99

Case Price (12): $385.00

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