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2009 Château Bastor-Lamontagne - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 92

"Fragrant and herbal, without excess of sweetness, allowing the acidity to shine through with a nice refreshing greenish tinge to it, this wine has a run-through of very pure fruit flavours (white fruit: pears, golden apples) that will make it ideal for fairly early drinking."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $36.99

Case Price (6): $205.00

2009 Château Caillou - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

Bottle: $39.99

Case Price (6): $220.00

2009 Château Cantegril - Sauternes

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: $36.99

Case Price (6): $205.00

2003 Château Climens - Barsac (375ml)

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

WS 96

ST 92

Loads of honey, maple syrup, dried apricot and spice. Full-bodied, medium-sweet, with a refined, spicy character. Pretty wine. Masses of botrytis. This is refined and long, a racy wine compared with the power and muscle of so many others. Beauty among the beasts. Best after 2012. 2,300 cases made.

Bottle: $49.99

Case Price (12): $550.00

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

2005 Château Coutet - Barsac (375ml)

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

WA 92

Bottle: $34.99

Case Price (12): $385.00

2007 Château Coutet - Barsac (375ml)

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

WA 94

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

2010 Château Coutet - Barsac (375ml)

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

WS 93-96

WA 93-95

We really enjoyed this wine during our group tasting with Bill Blatch, even before he took us to Chateau Coutet later that day! Our meeting with Aline Baly, niece of owner Philippe Baly, only reconfirmed our wonderful feelings for this wine. Rich and lush with tropical fruit flavors galore, this is fantastic stuff!

~~Regular price $44.95~~

SALE! $39.99

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 de Myrat - Barsac

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

Bottle: $49.99

Case Price (12): $550.00

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

2009 Château Doisy-Védrines - Barsac

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

WA 94

"The feature of this wine is clearly its menthol-fresh brightness and spring flowers aromas. Probably all this comes, rather like at La Tour Blanche, partly from the particularly fresh nature of the 15% Sauvignon, partly from the soil structure.

At 140 g/l, the wine is certainly very rich and this sweetness almost - but doesn't quite - smother these fine aromas. So the wine is a combination of extreme fragrance with quite extreme concentration: rich yet fresh, strong yet gentle."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $48.99

Case Price (6): $269.00

2010 Château Doisy-Védrines - Barsac

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

WA 93

The Doisy-Vedrines has a refined bouquet of lemon curd, dried honey and just a touch of quince, perhaps not quite as rich as recent vintages, but very well-defined. The palate is well-balanced, with a touch of lime cordial and passion fruit on the entry, and zesty acidity and impressive precision towards the taut, slightly spicy rich finish. Returning after an hour, this sample has enhanced clarity and volume, and subsequent encounters confirm a very promising Doisy-Vedrines.The Doisy-Vedrines has a refined bouquet of lemon curd, dried honey and just a touch of quince, perhaps not quite as rich as recent vintages, but very well-defined. The palate is well-balanced, with a touch of lime cordial and passion fruit on the entry, and zesty acidity and impressive precision towards the taut, slightly spicy rich finish. Returning after an hour, this sample has enhanced clarity and volume, and subsequent encounters confirm a very promising Doisy-Vedrines. -- Neal Martin

Bottle: $44.99

Case Price (6): $249.00

2010 Château du Cros - Tradition Loupiac

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

Bottle: $27.99

Case Price (6): $154.00

2009 Château Guiraud - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 97

WE 95

WA 94

"As always, this is dominated by a freshness of flavour, this time kiwi-like fruit as well as the traditional mandarin orange peel - Xavier Planty calls it ?rhubarb?. The 35% Sauvignon, still apart in several lots in the cellar, is mainly responsible for this, but the S?millons are very aromatic too. The base is however powerful, although, at 135 g/l residual, they resisted the temptation of going for broke on sweetness, no mean feat for such a large estate con-fronted by such a sudden onrush of botrytis. The overall effect is of evenness and of a reserved kind of tightness, surrounded by but not dominated by all that freshness of pure fruit."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $37.99

Case Price (12): $418.00

2010 Château Guiraud - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 92

WA 91

This "First Growth" Sauternes is owned by our friend Xavier Planty who has been at Guiraud nearly 30 years and just recently became owner after being winemaker and Director. This 2010 is another great Guiraud, fat and rich and quite sweet. Has the classic spiciness of Guiraud. Despite the high level of sweetness, it's fairly light on its feet. -- CW Wine Staff (April 2011)

Bottle: $37.95

Case Price (12): $418.00

2009 Château La Tour Blanche - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 92

WE 96

"The balance here is identical to Raymond Lafon: 13?8 alcohol, 140 g/l residual and 3.9 g/l total acidity, but what a difference in style. There is a menthol kind of freshness pervading the wine, giving it an almost New World, or even Alsatian touch. This higher tone of fresh fruit will presumably get penetrated by the more roasted S?millon lots during the ?levage. For the second time (07 and 09 - no '08 was made), the sweetness is less absolute, La Tour Blanche having held the record for residual in '03 and '05, and has settled down into a finer balance as a result."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $42.99

Case Price (12): $473.00

2009 Château Nairac - Barsac (375ml)

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

WA 95

Bottle: $49.99

Case Price (12): $550.00

2009 Château Rabaud-Promis - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 96

Bottle: $29.99

Case Price (12): $330.00

2009 Château Raymond-Lafon - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 94

"This is a positive, strong-flavoured wine, with loads of chunky fatness coming out of the S?millon and with the botrytis strongly apparent in the form of quite heavy glycerine. At 138 g/l residual, it is on a par with many others, but it has not been fermented out beyond 13?8, procuring a very fine honeyed texture and avoiding excess of power, so the result is gentle for such a flavourful wine. In addition, there is a good acid balance that stitches it all up nicely. As at Fargues, this will be kept in barrel longer than others, so will certainly soften a little more during its ?levage. Quite clearly this ch'teau kept right on top of the botrytis."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $49.99

Case Price (6): $275.00

2007 Château Rayne-Vigneau - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 95

Tasted single blind against its peers. The Rayne-Vigneau has blossomed gloriously in bottle and performed outrageously well under blind conditions. It has a rich, decadent bouquet with wild heather honey, orange peel and a touch of lime. The palate is very well-balanced with immense purity and brilliant tension. The acidity is pitch perfect here, with wonderful poise towards the finish and hints of elderflower on the aftertaste. This has class from start to finish and should age with panache. Tasted January 2011.

Bottle: $29.99

Case Price (12): $330.00

2007 Château Rayne-Vigneau - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 95

Bottle: $49.99

Case Price (6): $275.00

2009 Château Rayne-Vigneau - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 95

WA 96

"Unlike many, the assemblage was made back in January, so the wine is maybe more relaxed at this stage than those samples made up from the different lots, still apart in the cellar. This is also the first year of the new estate manager Vincent Laberg?re, taking the place of Patrick Eymery who retires in June, and he seemed keen to make a statement with this his first vintage. Rayne Vigneau has tended towards a lighter style recently, and this 2009 is a resolute return to something richer, with a more concentrated mouth-feel and 160 g/l of residual. But it is also bursting with fresh fruit aromas, from the higher than usual proportion of Sauvignon (28%) and from the absolute purity of the early October botrytis. The result is a densely sweet but highly 'tensile? and absolutely pure Rayne Vigneau."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $32.99

Case Price (12): $363.00

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