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2009 Grand Puy Lacoste
Pauillac |
| HK $685 .00 |
Performing better from bottle than it did from cask( and comparable to their wines 2005, 2000, 1990 and 1982), this is a great classic from Xavier Borie's estate situated on the back roads west of the town of Pauillac. Its dense ruby/purple color is followed by hints of spring flowers, crushed rocks, black currants, cedar and earth/underbrush......
RP score: 95 |
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2009 Clos de l'Orataire
Saint-Emilion |
| HK $570.00 |
A flamboyant St. Emilion, this largely-Merlot blend displays notes of Christmas fruitcake, ceddar wood, tabacco leaf, and loads of black currant and blackberry fruits. A showy, extravagantly concentrated, hedonistic style of St.-Emilion, with some wood smoke and roasted herbs adding nuance to the full-throttle aromatics and long , lush, silky flavours, this wine can be drunk now or ....
RP score: 93 |
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2009 Latour Martillac
Pessac Leognan |
| HK $380.00 |
The best ever wine from this estate (even better than their sensational 2005), this full-bodied wine offers notes of blueberry, black currant, asphalt and burning charcoal embers in a deep, layered and mult-dimensional style. It is impressively pure and well-built, with far greater concentration and lemgth than I have ever remember this wine having in the past.
RP score: 93-95 |
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2009 Brane Cantenac
Margaux |
| HK $680.00 |
A spectacular effort from this estate rivaling their 2005, but more flashy/flamboyant, this dark ruby/purple wine has a strikingly intense nose of licorice, flowers plums and dark berries. Medium to full-bodied, vert approachable and silky, this suave, very sexy wine can be drunk early on as well as aged for 20+ years.
RP score: 95 |
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2009 Boyd Cantenac
Margaux |
| HK $500.00 |
The dense purple-hued 2009 exhibits a beautiful nose of blueberry liqueur, acacia flowers, licorice, graohite and wood smoke. Flowery and elegant as well as exeptionally oyrem medium to full-bodied, admiraby concentrated and rich, it is a big Margaux, but does not lose any of the typicity one expects of wines from this area, which tend to be slightly more....
RP score: 92 |
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