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2010 Château du Cros - Tradition Loupiac

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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: $49.99

Case Price (6): $275.00

2009 Château de Myrat - Barsac

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: $49.99

Case Price (12): $550.00

2007 Château Doisy-Daëne - Barsac

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

WS 93

WA 95

Bottle: $57.99

Case Price (6): $319.00

2009 Château Rayne-Vigneau - Sauternes

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: $59.99

Case Price (6): $330.00

2005 Château Coutet - Barsac

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

WA 92

Bottle: $64.99

Case Price (6): $385.00

2009 Château Sigalas-Rabaud - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

Bottle: $64.99

Case Price (6): $715.00

2006 Château Rieussec - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 93

WE 95

Wonderful, evocative orange marmalade and ginger flavors play around this rich wine. Its botrytis dryness doesn't detract from the intense sweetness, ripe apricots, spice and deliciously refreshing acidity. The richness is in the texture, but the ripeness is in the open, generous fruit.

Bottle: $69.99

Case Price (12): $770.00

2007 Château Guiraud - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 94

Bottle: $69.99

Case Price (12): $770.00

2007 Château Coutet - Barsac

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

WA 94

Bottle: $76.99

Case Price (6): $425.00

2010 Château Coutet - Barsac

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!

Bottle: $79.99

Case Price (6): $440.00

2009 Château Coutet - Barsac

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

Bottle: $95.00

Case Price (6): $523.00

2003 Château Climens - Barsac

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: $95.00

Case Price (6): $522.00

2009 Château Rieussec - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 92

WE 96

WA 95

"Rieussec flourishes in highly concentrated vintages, and 2009 is no exception. With 150 pickers working two 8-hour shifts, they managed to keep up to date with the year's rapid botrytis, and so maintained a total purity, elegance and complexity of flavour, and at 4,0 g/l, a high tone of acidity. At the same time, at 160 g/l residual, the wine is as usual unashamedly rich. The result is that honeyed sort of purity in the concentration that we saw something of in the historic '89 and '01, possibly superior to the former and almost up to the latter. The balance seems so natural and gives the impression of being able to age for a century or more."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $99.00

Case Price (12): $1,088.00

2007 Château Suduiraut - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 95

WE 95

WA 93

The nose takes time to coalesce in the glass, very pure with honey, white peach, Turkish Delight honeysuckle, and beeswax. The palate is beautifully balanced, still with some oak to be subsumed, but has great depth and precision. This is a confident, almost ambitious Suduiraut with great power and intensity towards the botrytis-rich, viscous finish that is endowed with great persistency. Lovely. Drink now-2030.

Bottle: $99.00

Case Price (12): $1,100.00

2007 Château Rieussec - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 93

Tasted single blind against its peers. The Rieussec 2007 has a subtle nose of dried honey, pear, a touch of quince and crushed stone on the nose, the oak better integrated than last year. The palate is well-balanced with stem ginger and honeycomb on the entry. It is linear compared to its peers, there is no flourish on the finish as yet, but it has fine definition and hints of tangy marmalade and lemongrass that should become more accentuated with time. Tasted January 2011.

Bottle: $115.00

Case Price (6): $630.00

2005 Château Climens - Barsac

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

WS 95

WA 97

ST 94

Bottle: $129.00

Case Price (6): $710.00

2009 Château Climens - Barsac

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

Bottle: $129.00

Case Price (6): $715.00

2001 Château de Fargues - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 95

Bottle: $129.00

Case Price (12): $1,415.00

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