Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 94 points Wine Spectator 96 Pauillac, Bordeaux, France- "Stick your nose in this and it says something? I am special." Deep and generous aromas of blackberries, fresh tobacco and minerals... With big velvety tannins and a superlong finish. Like a fine cashmere sweater." Wine Spectator By Stephen Tanzer Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar, May/Jun 04 Rated: 93 Bright red-ruby. Sexy aromas of raspberry, cedar, coconut, minerals, lead pencil, chocolate and tobacco leaf. Juicy, lively and penetrating, with sharply delineated flavors of blackberry, raspberry and rose petal. Boasts the classic inner-mouth energy of this great first growth, but also grew increasingly silky with extended aeration. Finishes with tongue-coating tannins and superb lift. |