"Dark ruby garnet, opaque core, violet reflections, delicate edge brightening. Black cherries, blackberries, delicate herbal spice, underlaid with candied orange zest. Taut, tightly meshed, fresh structure, mineral-salty finish, an animating food companion." - 12 on Order
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Drinking Window: 2028 - 2043 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 92 Falstaff, 92 JL, 92 XL Region: Saint - Estephe ABV: 12.5%
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Drinking Window: 2031 - 2061 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 JS Region: Bordeaux ABV: 12.5%"The depth of fruit comes through clearly, with a medium body and plenty of berry, chocolate, walnut and dark aromas. Creamy and polished, with a lovely texture and a long and rather endless finish. Soft and precise." - 12 on Order - James Suckling
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Drinking Window: 2030 - 2060 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 JD Region: Bordeaux ABV: 13.8%"Merlot-heavy blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the 2025 Chateau Larcis Ducasse sports a dense purple hue as well as incredible aromatics of ripe currant and black cherry fruit intermixed with smokey tobacco, graphite, and crushed stone. Aged in a mix of 225-liter barriques (45%), 500-liter demi-muids (40%), and foudres (15%), it checks in at a 13.8% alcohol with a pH of 3.5. Deep, rich, and full-bodied on the palate, it has a broad, layered mouthfeel, ripe, velvety tannins, and a great finish. It might end up being in the top handful of wines in the vintage." - 12 on Order - Jeb Dunnuck
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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2030 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 90 WS Region: Rhone Valley ABV: 13.5% "The Reve de Scipion Displays a deep garnet color. Its bouquet reveals vibrant red fruits, spices, and smoky notes. The wine glides smoothly across the palpate, offering a persistent mouthfeel and refund, elegant tannins. The finish is long and harmonious." – Winery Notes
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Drinking Window: 2030 - 2065 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 JD Region: Saint - Julien ABV: 13.5%"A Cabernet dominant blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, and 2% Cabernet Franc, the 2025 Chateau Leoville Barton checks in at 13.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.6. Creme de cassis, smoked tobacco, liquid violets, iron, and an incredible sense of graphite all define the aromatics of this brilliant, deep, pure, and layered beauty. On the palate, it's full-bodied, inward, and powerfully structured, and reminds me slightly on the 2010 with its deep concentrated style. It has enormous potential." - 24 on Order - Jeb Dunnuck
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Drinking Window: 2030 - 2065 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 - 100 RP Region: Pauillac ABV: 13.1 - 13.5%" A blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot that weighs in at 13.3% alcohol, the 2025 Pontet-Canet is one of the finest wines this estate has produced. Wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet cassis, wild berries and plums mingled with notions of violet and burning embers, it's full-bodied, ample and velvety, with a degree of structural polish and sensuality that is rare in the Médoc, ripe acids and a long, penetrating finish. Over the last handful of years, technical director Mathieu Bessonnet and his team have revitalized Pontet-Canet's vineyards with well-timed soil work and precise phytosanitary treatments; and since 2023, the careful use of "pieds de cuve" in the winery, along with early blending, more refined barrel choices and cooler temperatures in the chai—plus more precise bottling practices—have conspired to take this estate to new heights of quality and consistency. In 2025, the team formed lower-than-usual "ponts" (whereby the canopies of adjacent vines are braided together in an arch) to retain denser foliage to protect the fruiting zone from sunshine, and they waited to pick late in pursuit of full maturity in Cabernet Sauvignon, finishing on September 23. The result is one of the wines of the vintage. - 60 on Order - William Kelley, Wine Advocate - Apr 30, 2026
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Drinking Window: 2037 - 2059 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 98 WI, 98 AVV, 98 NM Region: Pauillac ABV: 13.3%"The 2025 Lynch-Bages was picked 9 to 21 September and matured in 75% new oak barrels. This has a stunning bouquet with exceptionally pure blackberry, cassis and subtle violet scents, the oak seamlessly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with finely embroidered tannins, perfect acidity, a touch of cedar and black pepper that dovetails into a peacock's tail finish that "clings" to the mouth. This continues the strongest run from Lynch-Bages since the 1980's and, perhaps with the 2025, it is close to surpassing that." - 6 on Order - Neal Martin
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Drinking Window: 2033 - 2064 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 JD, 99 JS Region: Saint - Estephe ABV: 13.3%"Cassis, currants, smokey tobacco, chocolate, and graphite all define the 2025 Chateau Clos D'Estournel, a powerful, ripe, concentrated beauty based on 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, and 1% Petit Verdot that's still resting in 50% new barrels. On the palate, it's full-bodied, with a pure, layered mouthfeel, intergrated oak, and a great finish. It stays lively, balanced, and remarkbly fresh despite its weight and richness, and I'd happily put this up with the creme de la creme of the vintage." - 24 on Order - Jeb Dunnuck
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Drinking Window: 2027 - 2064 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 - 100 JS, 99 WI, 99 JD Region: Pessac - Leognan ABV: 14 - 14.5% "Another great example illustrating Haut-Bailly's DNA: exquisite classicism. Grand, elegant, complex yet discrete. Ample structure with solid mid-palate concentration filling in, making for impressive architecture. Smooth texture of dark chocolate alike tannins. Dark-toned fruit core with layers of density. Finish with lingering salinity adding some dynamic and lift." – Wine Maniacs - Tasted: May 2021
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Drinking Window: 2030 - 2065 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 AMA Region: Pomerol ABV: 13.7 - 14.5%"The aromas of blackberries, black olives and hints of tobacco and dried fruit are fascinating and enticing. It's medium to full-bodied with creamy and polished tannins and a savory finish. Turns refinded and focused after the layered fruit. Classic in character, with a caressing texture and balance. Hints of ripe fruit and freshness at the same time." - 12 on Order - Antonio Galloni
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Drinking Window: 2027 - 2065 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 99 JS Region: Pauillac ABV: 13.7 - 14.5% "Clearly going to be one of the all-time great vintages for Pichon Baron. An intensity of color that matches the intensity you taste, and feel, here you find a wine that coats your palate with its multiple layers of rich , dark, deep, black and dark red fruits coupled with smoke, tobacco, Cuban cigars, spice, dark chocolate, and burning oak embers. This incredible wine is perfectly poised on the corner of power, and intensity with an almost, endless, seamless, regal, and refined finish." – Jeff Leve, the Wine Cellar Insider - Tasted: Mar. 2023
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Drinking Window: 2027 - 2065 Size: 750mL Critic Scores: 100 RP, 100 WA, 100 VWM, 100 AVV, 100 GL Region: Pessac - Leognan ABV: 13.5% "The first thing you notice is the black, purple hue. Next, it it’s the perfume with its black, blue, and red fruits, incense, curry, flowers, smoke and herbs. Opulent, restrained, elegant and powerful, the wine comes in layers. You can sense the array of exotic spices, mint, blue and black fruits, crushed rocks, black cherries and white pepper on the palate. Full-bodied and dense, the wine somehow remains light on its feet. The end notes, meshing elegance and power bring everything together, as the finish crosses the 60 second mark. This is perhaps even better than the perfect, 2016!" – Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider - Tasted: May 2023
