| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2021 Domaine de Chevalier BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
3/9/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 pointsFans of white Bordeaux wine need to be all over this gem. One sniff, and sip, and you are hooked. I do not know where to start. Complete in every way, the wine kicks off with a nose that explodes with its orange rind, honeysuckle, lemon puree, flowers, green apples, spice, and herbs. As striking as that was, it is the incredible purity in the endless waves of citrus, and yellow tropical fruits that seal the deal. From there, the only thing left is the electric, seamless finish that once it gets started, it doesn't want to quit. This gem competes with many of the worlds great wines, and it sells for a fraction of what they sell for. The wine blends 75% Sauvignon Blanc, and 25% Semillon. This is the best white wine ever produced by the Bernard family at Domaine de Chevalier. Don't miss it! Drink from 2024-2050. |
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2009 Château Latour Grand VinPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/20/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 pointsThis is a clear candidate for 101 Pts, as well as wine of the vintage! Mind-blowing in every sense of the word, from start to finish, this wine is breath-taking! Multi-layered, and multi-faceted, the wine coats your palate, mouth, teeth, and gums with non-stop layers of opulent fruits that are elegant, regal, sophisticated, and seamless. You also find vibrancy as well as astonishing purity. The 60-second mark is left in the dust in the seamless, seemingly, endless finish. If you have the money and want one of the great wine-tasting experiences of your life, this is for you! Drink from 2024-2060.
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2016 Château Canon-la-GaffelièreSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/30/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 pointsIt is hard to believe you can buy a wine this good, with bottle age at this price. Packed with ripe, energetic, silky, red, and black fruits, the wine expresses purity, elegance, length, and depth. There is minerality, freshness, and while it is simply, fabulous to taste today, it is going to improve for the next 20 years with ease. Drink from 2024-2056.
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2020 M. Chapoutier Châteauneuf-du-Pape Croix de BoisGrenache more |
3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 pointsElegant, forward, vivacious, and floral, the wine instantly focuses you on its wealth of spicy, kirsch, black raspberry, pepper, and herbs. There is depth, concentration, and a long supple, polished finish that ends with another layer of sweet, ripe, kirsch. Drink from 2024-2038.
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2021 Château Cheval BlancSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/5/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 pointsPoised between its regal bearing, and, sensuous, sexy side, this is a clear contender for wine of the vintage, avoiding all of the pitfalls of the vintage. This sublime gem pops from the glass effortlessly with array of flowers, spices, red, and dark red fruits, tobacco, and mint leaves. The palate offers a majestic display of vibrant, al dente red fruits, and ripe, dark red berries, coupled with firm, cashmere, polished tannins, velvet-textured black cherries, and plums. This is showing even better in the bottle than it did in barrel! The wine blends 52% Cabernet Franc, 43% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, making this the highest percentage of Cabernet in over a decade. The willingness to delay harvesting, finishing October 14, along with low yields, at only 28 hectoliters per hectare are part of the reason the vintage was so successful. Drink from 2029-2060.
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2021 Virginie de ValandraudSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/9/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 pointsA bit oaky at the moment, the wine needs some time to better integrate allowing you to get all the sweet, ripe, dark cherries, plums, flowers, licorice and chocolate in the nose and palate that the wine offers. The finish is all about its lush, creamy, essences of black cherries and plums. Drink from 2024-2033.
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2016 PétrusPomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
9/21/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 pointsDeep ruby in color, here you find truffle, dark chocolate, coffee bean, cigar box, black cherry and dark plums. Full bodied, elegant, velvety, opulent, sweet and fresh, the presence on the palate is silk and velvet in the texture with purity and sweetness to the fruits. The wine is hedonistic as well as intellectual, and a little bit firm. There is serious aging potential. The wine really sticks with you, for over 60 seconds in the finish. Give this at least 15 or more years in the cellar to develop before popping a cork.
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2015 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave HermitageSyrah more |
2/28/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 pointsThe explosive nose serves up licorice, smoke, cherry liqueur, dried flowers, dark red cherries, blueberries, smoke, and Asian slices explodes in the perfume. The wine is palate staining, dense, earthy, full-bodied, and intense, the wine is also balanced, symmetrical and dense. The lush, opulent, youthful finish expands, and intensifies as it lingers on your palate. If you prefer fruit-forward wines, open and decant. Else, wait a bit. Drink from 2025-2060. |
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2018 Domaine Saint Préfert Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles Vignes ClairetteClairette Blanche more |
1/8/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 pointsRich, lush, opulent, slightly oily in texture, the wine explodes with white peach, vanilla, lemon curd, tropical fruits and honeysuckle. This is quite long, intense and leaves a big impression. Only produced in magnum, this is probably going to be better and perhaps deserving of a higher score when it matures.
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2022 Château Lafon-RochetSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/8/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 pointsRich in color, the wine is floral, with pepper, spice, tobacco leaf, currants, and blackberries. Medium-bodied, fresh, soft, ripe, round, and polished, with blackberries, black cherries, chocolate, spice, and cedar nuances. The fruits are fresh, bright, and creamy. Give this just a few years in the bottle and it promise to be even better! The wine was made from blending 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, and 4% Cabernet Franc. 14.5% ABV, 3.77 pH. This is the first vintage with the new owner, Jackie Lorenzetti, and the team of Emmanuel Cruse, fully in charge. Drink from 2025-2045. 94-96 Pts.
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2000 Château Haut-BrionPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/4/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 pointsStill young, yet it is impossible not to be awed by the wine. Intense, concentrated, complex, and filled with smoked, red fruits, charred wood, tar, spice, forest leaves, spice, and a farmers market of red berries, this is long, rich, mouth-coating and attention-seeking. At 24 years of age, this is only starting to display its greatness. Drink from 2024-2075.
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1953 Château Lafite RothschildPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/4/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 99 pointsThis could be the best 1953 I have ever tasted, as well as competing for being one of the best older vintages of Lafite I have ever tasted! This bottle had everything a great Lafite should have. Soaring, complex, aromatics, elegant, soft, refined, textures, layers of spicy, sweet, vibrant, pure, red fruits, and a seamless finish that did not want to quit. This bottle was simply mesmerizing. If you have the money, and you can find a bottle with good provenance, and you want one of the best, wine-tasting experiences of your life, look no further! Drink from 2024-2033.
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2021 Château Les Carmes Haut-BrionPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/20/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 pointsGarnet in color, the wine opens with tobacco leaf, cigar box, thyme, herbs, flowers, espresso and red berries. Medium/full-bodied, vibrant, fresh and focused on its purity of fruit as well as its elegance. This sublime wine is silky, and sensuous. This finish is long and refined, with sweet, ripe cherries, dark cocoa, spice, herbs, a drop of citrus and cigar wrapper with a cool touch of salt and crushed rock that come out in the endnotes. The wine was made using 45% whole bunch clusters during fermentation. From a blend of 40% Cabernet Franc, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon and 25% Merlot, 13.5% ABV, pH 3.6. The wine is aging in a combination of 70% new, French oak, 20% foudres and 10% amphora. Drink from 2025-2050. 94-96
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2020 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou La Croix Ducru-BeaucaillouSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/21/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 pointsMint leaf, tobacco wrapper, cherries, herbs, spice, and currants. The wine is forward, soft, polished, round, fruity, bright, and fresh, with ripe dark, red fruits that create the sapid finish. The elegant finish with its black cherry, mocha, and spice nuances tastes as good as it feels. Hold this for 3-5 years before opening a bottle and it will really start showing its essence. The wine is a blend of 53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2024-2038.
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2022 Château Beausejour (Duffau Lagarrosse)St. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/8/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 pointsFlowers, black raspberries, crushed rocks, saffron, cloves, licorice, and plum liqueur create the nose. Elegant, silky, and fresh, there is intensity along with a haunting sense of purity to the fruits. The wine is perfectly balanced between power, and refinement, which you can easily taste and feel in its layers of ripe, sweet, sensuously-textured fruits. The seamless, mineral-packed finish crosses the 50 second mark with ease. The wine blends 69% Merlot with 31% Cabernet Franc. 14.9% ABV, 3.55 pH. The harvest took place September 6 - September 23. This is the earliest harvest in the history of the estate. Yields were 42 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2027- 2055. 97-99 Pts.
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2016 Château Les GravièresSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
9/21/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 88 pointsLicorice, smoke, earth and juicy plums pair well with the soft, medium-bodied, red fruits. Easy to drink, the wine will be best on the young side.
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2015 Château La ConseillantePomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/17/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 pointsEverything about this wine is Pomerol. From the floral, truffle, cocoa, and dark red fruit nose, all the way through to the silky, fresh, sensuous finish, this is what great Pomerol is all about. Drink from 2023-2050.
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2015 Château Rauzan-SéglaMargaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/16/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 pointsThe intense floral display in the nose is on fire and is made even better with the addition of sweet currants, smoke, blackberries, and earth. As good as the perfume is, it is on the palate, with its layers of silky, energetic, rich, elegant red and black fruits that is the show stopper here. Still young, but in a nice place to pop a cork if you prefer wines more on the fruit, than on the secondary side. Drink from 2023-2055.
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2000 Château MargauxRed Bordeaux Blend more |
4/5/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 pointsNow, you are talking. This is a heat-stopping vintage of Margaux. The perfume, with its lavender, lilacs, currants, plums, cedar and tobacco hits you. But it is the rich, opulent, silky, sensuous, multi-layered palate presence with its seamless finish that steals the show. Drink this now, or age it for 2-3-4 decades!
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2003 Château Léoville PoyferréSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/6/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 pointsSurprisingly fresh, texturally, the wine is opulent, silky, and showy on the palate, but the nose is not overripe. Instead, you find dark red berries, licorice, smoke, and perhaps touches of a robusto cigar wrapper. There is no reason to wait here, if you have a bottle, pull a cork. Drink from 2023-2030. |
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2021 Château Fleur Cardinale Intuition de Fleur Cardinale BlancBordeaux Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
5/21/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote: 91 pointsWhite peach, lemon chiffon, honeysuckle, and a touch of mango on the nose. Fresh, vibrant, sweet, tangy and peachy, enjoy this over the next few years to capture all the sweet fruits. The wine is produced from a blend of 50% Sauvignon Blanc, 25% Semillon and 25% Sauvignon Gris. Drink from 2022-2026. 90-92
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Comment posted by Jeff Leve:
5/1/2024 11:05:00 AM - It is a good question. I copy the blends and other info from the spec sheets the chateau provides. However, the vineyard is planted to 70/30, so I am guessing my info is probably correct. Pop me a note when you tray a bottle please, I am hoping you like it.