Fine Wine > Red > $20-50 > France

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Big and rich, powered with sweet fruits, rounded with black plums. The firm tannins are densely packed at the core of this ageworthy wine. With its swathes of ripe fruit and the edge of wood aging, it’s already delicious, but keep for at least six years.

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The wine is a dark ruby with a youthful purple hue. Integrated nose,with hints of berries along with subtle herbaceous, mineral, spice, clove, cherry and currant notes. Full bodied the wines is rich and opulent with a solid core of fresh fruit backed by firm ripe tannins. Good balance, well..

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"From a well-situated, 43-acre vineyard next to the fabulous Troplong-Mondot, Barde-Haut, under the leadership of Helene Garcin, offers abundant amounts of sweet berry fruit intermixed with licorice, pain grille, and barbecue spice notes." Robert Parker

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A deep ruby/purple color is accompanied by a bouquet of mocha, black cherries, and currants. With good sweetness, a broad mid-palate, and elegant, pure, currant and cherry flavors.

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"Bright ruby-red. Complex, floral-accented scents of raspberry, sassafras and blood orange, with a subtle touch of white pepper. Tangy and youthfully taut, then turns fleshier and spicier with air, offering sweet red fruit preserve flavors and notes of black tea and licorice. Finishes with notes..

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"It is one of our favorite affordable Pomerols: Rich, smooth and mouth filling with

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"Kudos to proprietor Christian Dauriac (and consultant Michel Rolland) for this outstanding effort as well as for Destieux's recent upgrade to a Grand Cru Classe in the most recent classification of St.-Emilions (suspended in March, 2007 because of litigation). From a 45-year-old vineyard in..

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…exquisitely fragrant, ethereal nose of licorice, kirsch, sandy, loamy soil and spice box. The remarkable perfume and expansive texture are amazing… Grenache at its finest.

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This property has made so many fine efforts lately that it is difficult to say the 2009 is better than their 2005. However, the 2009 is a charming, sexy, dense ruby/purple-colored offering displaying lots of ripe Merlot fruit intermixed with hints of charcoal, black raspberries, black currants,..

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"... loads of roasted Provencal herbs, sweet black cherry, black currants and black raspberries, beautiful purity, full-bodied texture and a long finish."