Dark ruby with a purple hue, this appealing style of Cheval Blanc offers the tell-tale nose of sweet black fruits, coconut, vanilla, and a touch of menthol. The wine is medium-bodied, elegant, purely made, and while it lacks volume... Read More
A beauty, boasting clean, pure, subtle currant, black cherry and mint flavors. Elegant structure of silky tannins. Tight and closed in, it's not giving much now; try in 2000. 466 cases made. WS
A word of admiration and praise is in order for Bruno Prats. One of St.-Estephe's most forward thinking producers, Prats is never content with merely making outstanding wine. Over the last few years he has improved Cos d'Estournel,... Read More
Big, dense, spicy and black fruit nose featuring game, anise and road tar followed by tannic, sappy, very complex, earthy flavors that are sweet, delicious, serious and deliver excellent length. This is extremely impressive and... Read More
Cherry cough drop nose that is still very fresh and vibrant with distinctive, medium weight flavors that offer inner sweetness offset by rather drying tannins on the finish. While the extract is sweet and fine, the dry tannins... Read More
Because Lafite-Rothschild (1) tends to lack the weight of many wines of the northern Medoc, and (2) is never a flashy, ostentatious style of wine, it is often more difficult to evaluate when young than some of its neighbors. A... Read More
Hint of sous bois and earthy, no longer youthful fruit lead to relatively big, intense flavors underpinned by prominent finishing tannins yet there is good weight and just enough velvet to buffer the structure. There is really... Read More
After less than persuasive performances in two potentially great years, 1989 and 1990, Mouton-Rothschild appears to have settled down, producing fine efforts in recent vintages, culminating with the enormously promising, unquestionably... Read More
Sweet, ripe and still primary fruit soars from the glass followed by gorgeously detailed, elegant flavors and solid tannins completely buffered by abundant extract. The length is of undeniable grand cru quality and the acid/fruit... Read More
As a longtime fan of this property, I have been candid about my disappointment with most vintages of Trotanoy between 1983 and 1989. Certainly the 1990 appeared to be a return to the big, burly, concentrated style of Trotanoy... Read More