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Drinking Window: 2015 - 2070 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 100 RP, 100 WS, 100 WP Region: Pessac - Leognan ABV: 14.00% "Deep dark ruby garnet, black core, youthful reflections, fine chocolate notes on the nose, pleasant dark berry sweetness, delicate crème de cassis, multi-layered. Powerful on the plate, powerful tannins, rather dry style, dark berries on the finish, good acidity, influenced by wood, cocoa on the finish. A Muscle Man!" * Falstaff - Tasted: May 2006
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Drinking Window: 2018 - 2048 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 RP, 95 CT Region: Mount Veeder ABV: 14.4 - 14.9% "The nearly perfect, inky/purple-colored 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Mt. Veeder boasts abundant aromas of blueberry pie, ink, violets, burning embers, and camphor. The staggeringly intense, provocatively complex aromatics are followed by a full-bodied wine with exquisite concentration as well as a stunningly pure texture. One of the most prodigious 2007 Cabernets I tasted, it should provide magical drinking in 5-6 years, and last for three decades or more." * Robert Parker - Tasted: Dec. 2009
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Drinking Window: 2020 - 2071 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 RP, 98 WE Region: Stags Leap District ABV: 15.5%"Among the Napa Valley's most crowning achievements in Cabernet, this vintage of Hillside Select is stunning, bright and beguiling in every way. Intensely layered, its interwoven flavors burst in black licorice, dark chocolate, pipe tobacco, gun smoke and garrigue. Spicy oak adds to the power and weight. Drinkable now, it will show even better finesse in time." * Wine Enthusiast - Tasted: January 2018
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Drinking Window: 2023-2032 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 93 ACS Region: Champagne ABV: 12.0% "Textural, balanced and salty, showcasing aromas of dried apples, cedar and pastry spices. Medium-bodied with bright acidity and thin bubbles. Precise and sharp. A blend of 43% pinot meunier, 31% pinot noir and 26% chardonnay. Dosage 2.5 g/L." * James Suckling - Tasted: May 2026
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 94 Vinous Region: Champagne ABV: 12.5% "Smoothe, creamy, and golden, the nose of this 2014 vintage is full-bodied, its rich fruitiness reveals full maturity. The fine, discreet effervescence transports us to a realm of elegance and refinement. Notes of flint marks the origin of this historic Verzy terroir. The long finish, both saline and chalky, confirms the exceptional terroir and quality of this Verzy 2014." * Winery Notes
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Drinking Window: 2017 - 2030 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: Region: Toscana IGT ABV: 13.5% "Le Gemme are produced with select Sangiovese, Merlot and Cabernet grapes from our best vineyards in Tuscany, a truly ambitious wines that are rich in aromas and ever soft in the mouth. A perfect example of balance, clear and deep reds. Wines that tell, better than any other, the true identity of our territory." * Winery Notes
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Drinking Window: 2023 - 2035 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 95 CT Region: Napa Valley ABV: 14.8% "The 2016 Lake William reflects the totality of its provenance and the promise our founder first saw when walking the property. Each facet combines to provide a harmonic balance of freshness and energy. Deep impactful color and floral on the nose, elegant black fruit, smoke and wet stone are delicately woven alongside a sophisticated acidity across the palate. The density of fruit provides generous weight that leads to balanced tannin and a distinguished, vibrant finish." * Winery Notes
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2034 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 93 Decanter Region: Ribera del Duero ABV: 14 - 14.6% "Quite a powerful and nicely chewy wine that manages to maintain its balance, which shows the power and potential of Ribera del Duero. Ripe but fresh blackberries, dark minerals and sweet spices with a balsamic touch. Masses of tannins delivered in a chalky, tense form. Long and still quite youthful. Certainly ambitious and structural. Drink from 2025." * James Suckling - Tasted: Nov. 2024 "A brooding and chewy Ribera del Duero with coffee, baked black cherries and blackberries on the nose. Full-bodied, powerful and extracted, with chewy tannins and a tight, flavorful finish. Try from 2026." - James Suckling - Tasted: Nov. 2024
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Drinking Window: 2020-2028 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 91 CT Region: Napa Valley ABV: 13.9% "Golden straw in the glass, the wine opens with aromas of cinnamon and ripe peach layered with melon, fig, and pear. Initially more fruit-driven than floral, notes of honeysuckle and spice soften into green apple and vanilla. The palate reveals lemon curd and ripe orange, with lively tension between supple stone fruit and bright acidity, supported by a billowy texture, subtle minerality, and a whisper of fresh-baked bread. The finish is bright and fresh, with apricot and orange marmalade accented by toasted almond and clove. *Jonathan Christaldi - Tasted: March 2026
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Drinking Window: 2028 - 2082 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 100 WI Region: Australia ABV: 14.5% "A robust Grange from a lauded vintage, this wields sheer power with such compelling prowess. Uncompromising Grange. There are rich blackberries and plums on offer, together with brazen oak and abundant notes of blackcurrants, black cherries, charcoal, cola and hard brown spices. So fleshy and intense. Dark-chocolate and cocoa-powder aromas and flavors here, too. The tannins are polished and long, extruding deep into the finish and holding endlessly. Dark chocolate, black cherry, dark plum and more. Impressive. Brazen. One of the great Granges that will drink magnificently for decades to come." * James Suckling - Tasted: June 2022
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Drinking Window: 2026 - 2065 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 100 JL, 100 JA Region: Pomerol ABV: 14.9% "The last vintage produced by Pomerol legend, Denis Durantou, (who sadly passed away may 2020), is one of his best. A testament to his devotion to his vineyards, the wine explodes with a gorgeous set of aromatics packed with flowers, chocolate, truffle, plums, black cherries, and wet earth. But it is on the palate where the magic takes place. Incredibly concentrated, rich, ostentations, silky and vibrant, the wine offers incredible purity to the fruit, which is a good thing because the finish is not something you want to loose sight of, as its showy display of chocolate-tinged, dark red fruits, licorice, spice, and black cherries lingers builds and expands. Built to age and evolve, give it some time in the cellar and enjoy it for 3 decades with ease. This is exactly the type of wine Denis Durantou truly loved making, Owners of the beauty should toast him and his years of work at L'Eglise Clinet." * Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider - Tasted: March 2022
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Drinking Window: 2026 - 2077 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 100 Falstaff, 100 AL, 100 WI Region: Pauillac ABV: 14 - 14.1% "Deep, dark, garnet in color, the wine is equally dark in its fruit, cigar wrapper, smoke, espresso, leaf, cedar, and spice profile. With elegance, power, firmness, and silkiness, the wine on the palate immediately cuts a wide swatch across your palate. All that regal, ripe, sweet, fruit and crushed gravel stick with you almost seamlessly for more than 50 seconds until you reach the endnote with salty, mineral-driven kick in the endnote. This is a fabulous Latour that will age for decades." * Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider - Tasted: July 2022
