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Friday, March 31, 2023

Pre-Arrival


Pre-Arrival
  • Scheduled to arrive mid/late May.
  • There is no minimum order you can snag a single bottle or mix and match a case or more to get 10% off.
  • Your orders will be confirmed and charged as soon as they are placed.

These two just got perfect 100 points!



2020 Troplong Mondot St Emilion Grand Cru...$134.99
A sensational Troplong. Vibrant and vivid, this makes you smile from the first smell: milk chocolate, floral notes of roses and lavender, wet stones, liquorice, cinnamon and ripe bramble fruits. Round and thrilling on the palate, tannins are abundant with a chalky blueberry coolness while a salty tang settles around the mouth. Lovely precision and purity of fruit; you feel the sharp definition - still linear which makes it less immediately charming than the 2019 but giving undeniable complexity. Deep but not heady, this remains pure and detailed, with a leanness from the terroir really setting this apart. After a few minutes, the glamour starts to appear giving a salivating, succulent and moreish aspect to the finish. An absolute beauty.
Rated 100/100 Decanter Magazine
Rated 98/100 Vinous
Rated 97+/100 Jeb Dunnuck




2020 Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte Pessac Leognan...$219.99
Absolutely pure gold and reminding me of the 2009 (or is it the 2010?), the 2020 Château Smith Haut Lafitte sports a dense purple hue to go with incredible aromatics of blackberries, blueberries, scorched earth, wood smoke, and acacia flowers. One of the most concentrated, rich, and sexy wines in the vintage, this massive an extraordinarily opulent 2020 shows the vintage's pure, elegant profile yet backs it up with sensational levels of fruit and texture. Based on 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, and the balance Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, it already offers pleasure given its wealth of fruit, but it deserves 7-8 years of bottle age and will evolve for 40-50 years. Not enough can be said about the quality of these wines. Bravo to Florence and Daniel Cathiard, as well as to director Fabien Teitgen, for another incredible achievement.
Rated 100/100 Jeb Dunnuck
Rated 99-100/100 James Suckling
Rated 98-100/100 Wine Advocate



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