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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 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 Caillou - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

Bottle: $39.99

Case Price (6): $220.00

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 Cantegril - Sauternes

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 91

Bottle: $36.99

Case Price (6): $205.00

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 Climens - Barsac

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

WE 99

WA 98

Bottle: $129.00

Case Price (6): $715.00

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 Coutet - Barsac

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

Bottle: $95.00

Case Price (6): $523.00

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 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-Daëne - L'Extravagant Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 100

~~Regular price $299.00~~

SALE! $198.00

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 Filhot - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

"Gabriel de Vaucelles claims to have produced a very similar wine to his famed '90. Certainly the analysis is the same: (13?8 alcohol, 140 g/l residual and 4.0 g/l total acidity). However, whereas the '90 had a certain roasted quality to the fruit, the '09 is fresher, and has a very pronounced mineral flavour that keeps it tighter amidst all the very strong concentration."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $21.99

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

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 Lamothe-Guignard - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 92

Bottle: $19.99

Case Price (12): $220.00

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 (375ml)

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

~~Regular price $25.99~~

SALE! $19.97

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