France - All Red Wines
France stands as the epitome of excellence when it comes to crafting red wines that showcase the diversity of terroirs, grape varieties, and winemaking traditions.
In Bordeaux, the renowned Left Bank vineyards of Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Margaux, Château Latour, and Château Haut-Brion epitomize the artistry of winemaking. These prestigious estates craft red wines that blend Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and Malbec, resulting in wines of depth, structure, and complexity. The wines from the Right Bank, such as those from Pétrus, Château Ausone, and Château Cheval Blanc, offer elegance, refinement, and a focus on Merlot as the dominant grape variety.
In Burgundy, the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune regions are home to iconic vineyards like Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Domaine Leroy, and Domaine Armand Rousseau. These vineyards produce world-renowned Pinot Noir wines that showcase finesse, complexity, and a captivating expression of their unique terroirs.
The Rhône Valley boasts appellations such as Hermitage, Côte-Rôtie, and Châteauneuf-du-Pape. In Hermitage, producers like Jean-Louis Chave and Domaine Jean-Louis Grippat craft powerful and age-worthy Syrah-based wines with immense structure and complexity. Côte-Rôtie is known for its elegant and perfumed Syrah wines, while Châteauneuf-du-Pape combines a blend of Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvèdre to create bold and full-bodied wines.
Moving to the Loire Valley, the vineyards of Chinon and Saumur-Champigny shine with exceptional Cabernet Franc wines. Producers such as Charles Joguet and Domaine Guiberteau showcase the region's ability to craft wines of finesse, with notes of red fruits, spice, and a characteristic herbal undertone.
Finally, in the south, the Languedoc-Roussillon region is celebrated for its bold and robust red wines. Vineyards like Mas de Daumas Gassac and Domaine Gauby produce powerful and expressive wines that highlight the region's warm climate and diverse terroirs.
France - All Red Wines
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Product Name | Region | Qty | Score | Price | |||||
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Bordeaux | 1 | 91 (WE) |
Inc. GST
SG$898.12 |
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Wine Enthusiast (91)Coming from the same stable as Léoville las Cases in Saint-Julien, the wine is finely structured with firm tannins and dark fruit. Rich plum flavors are counterbalanced by solid tannins. It needs to age, so drink from 2018. |
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Burgundy | 2 | 87-90 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$2,401.23 |
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Vinous (87-90)Bright ruby-red. Wild, musky aromas of dark berries and spices come across as a bit dull. Juicy and moderately deep but rather closed today, showing more saline minerality than primary fruit. This very backward wine finishes with slightly tough tannins and a lingering salty character. |
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Burgundy | 7 | 94 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$1,868.04 |
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Vinous (94)Good dark red. Expressive, high-toned nose shows a leesy complexity to the aromas of cherry, flowers, soil and what Patrick Landanger called blood peach. The palate offers uncanny energy and perfume, with sweet fruit lifted by spices and flowers. Lovely juiciness and class here. A wonderful Corton grand cru. Landanger did a much better job timing the harvest here than he did in 2012. |
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Burgundy | 2 | - |
Inc. GST
SG$9,869.30 |
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Burgundy | 1 | - |
Inc. GST
SG$5,280.40 |
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Burgundy | 1 | - |
Inc. GST
SG$3,264.33 |
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Rhone | 2 | 94 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$25,412.04 |
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Vinous (94)Bright ruby-red. An exotic bouquet presents black raspberry, incense, Asian spices and blood orange. On the palate, sweet red and dark berry flavors become more tangy and spicy with air. Shows an impressive blend of depth and vivacity and finishes with outstanding focus and thrust and gentle tannic grip. Evidently this wine didn't get the memo that 2011 couldn't produce outstanding wines. |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$2,087.24 |
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Vinous (94)Bright ruby-red. An exotic bouquet presents black raspberry, incense, Asian spices and blood orange. On the palate, sweet red and dark berry flavors become more tangy and spicy with air. Shows an impressive blend of depth and vivacity and finishes with outstanding focus and thrust and gentle tannic grip. Evidently this wine didn't get the memo that 2011 couldn't produce outstanding wines. |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$12,011.47 |
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Vinous (94)Bright ruby-red. An exotic bouquet presents black raspberry, incense, Asian spices and blood orange. On the palate, sweet red and dark berry flavors become more tangy and spicy with air. Shows an impressive blend of depth and vivacity and finishes with outstanding focus and thrust and gentle tannic grip. Evidently this wine didn't get the memo that 2011 couldn't produce outstanding wines. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 92 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$2,492.74 |
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Vinous (92)Good dark, bright red. Dark cherry, bitter chocolate and crushed stone on the nose. Broad, dry and refined, with a sweetness leavened by pungent red berry flavors complicated by spices, pepper and earth. Can't match the fruit intensity and freshness of the young 2012 version but the rising finish boasts glistening, sweet tannins and a sound structure for a graceful evolution in bottle. |
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Burgundy | 2 | 89 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$1,996.79 |
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Vinous (89)(this was bottled in March of 2013, just two months after the malolactic fermentation finished): Bright ruby-red. Wild, very ripe aromas and flavors of black raspberry and game. Good intensity and texture, with slightly peppery acidity enlivening the middle palate. Finishes with serious tannins and a lingering herbal quality. This was totally destemmed, as Nicolas Groffier did not think the stems were ripe enough in 2011. He compares the family's 2011s to its '97s and its 2012s to its '02s. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 94-97 (VN (ST)) |
Inc. GST
SG$2,399.61 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (94-97)Medium red, a bit less deep than the Clos de Beze. Medicinal raspberry, red cherry, flowers, crushed stone and a minty nuance on the nose; quite ethereal and perfumed, with little sign of the gamey, earthy side of this great grand cru. At once velvety and sharply etched, combining penetrating sweetness with terrific grip. Finishes with outstanding palate-staining perfume, a suggestion of menthol and noble tannins. Wonderfully delicate and light on its feet for all its power. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 93-96 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$2,330.92 |
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Vinous (93-96)Good bright, deep red. Aromas of black raspberry, rose petal and menthol show an almost liqueur-like ripeness. Then wonderfully sappy and vinous in the mouth, with a powerful crushed stone element giving punch to the creamy mid-palate. This is in the style of Potel's Lavaux Saint-Jaques, offering outstanding precision and class and a powerful impression of energy. Can't quite match the Chambertin for sheer grip but this wine is like a wake-up call to the taste buds. (The Griottes-Chambertin, which finished its malo later, was quite youthfully clenched and oaky, and impossible to assess with confidence.) |
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Burgundy | 3 | 92-95 (VN (ST)) |
Inc. GST
SG$3,037.74 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (92-95)Deep red-ruby. Cherry liqueur, crushed rock, exotic spices and a lightly medicinal quality on the nose. Dense, velvety and sweet, with terrific vinosity and underlying spine intensifying the black cherry and dark berry flavors. Quite sweet on the back end, with the substantial tannins arriving late. This wine includes fruit from five different sources and very different sites, according to Potel. Splendid potential. |
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Burgundy | 3 | 93+ (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$2,874.24 |
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Vinous (93+)Dark, deep, bright red. Very closed, brooding nose suggests cassis and black cherry. Then surprisingly silky and seamless on the palate, with lovely inner-mouth energy and saline minerality to the red fruit and floral flavors. Really mounts in sweetness on the tactile, expansive peacock's tail of a finish without any loss of shape. In fact, this beauty tightened up with a day in the refrigerator. |
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Bordeaux | 5 | 91 (WS) |
Inc. GST
SG$1,000.03 |
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Wine Spectator (91)This has muscular layers of fig, boysenberry compote, blackberry confiture and tobacco notes coursing underneath. The tannins are refined, with a lingering elegance to offset the heft. This should age well. Best from 2015 through 2025. 8,330 cases made. -JM |
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Burgundy | 1 | 88-91 (BH) |
Inc. GST
SG$1,458.38 |
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Burghound (88-91)A brooding and inexpressive nose features a very fresh and impressively complex mélange of wild dark berries, humus, underbrush and game hints. There is good volume and mid-palate density to the mouth coating and mineral-inflected flavors that possess fine balance and length. A very good villages. |
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Burgundy | 1 | - |
Inc. GST
SG$3,938.13 |
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Rhone | 3 | 98 (JS) |
Inc. GST
SG$1,561.34 |
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James Suckling (98)I tasted this and I thought of the great Rayas from the late 1980s. Full body, bright fruit and a creamy texture. Its purity of fruit is amazing with dark berry, spice, meat and dried flowers. The first vintage of this was 2009. Made from old vines planted in the 1940s. Aged three years in demi mouie. Very low sulfur too. Drink or hold |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (WA) |
Inc. GST
SG$1,051.22 |
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Wine Advocate (94)The 2011 Châteauneuf du Pape Omnia is a smoking blend of 80% Grenache, 10% Syrah and 10% Mourvedre that was fermented with 100% whole-cluster and aged two years in barrels, on lees, and never racked. It offers up a gorgeous perfume of sweet black cherries, kirsch liqueur, garrigue, crushed flowers and toasted spice that gives way to full-bodied richness, solid mid-palate depth and building tannin that emerges on the finish. While this has the vintage's more supple nature, I love the depth and richness on the palate, and it will evolve gracefully for at least 10-12 years. Importer: Atherton Wine Imports, Atherton CA; tel. (650) 328-6639 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 92 (WE) |
Inc. GST
SG$914.51 |
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Wine Enthusiast (92)Ripe and spicy, with delicious open fruit, this wine is rounded yet has a straight line of pure acidity. It has a light touch while showing depth of flavor for the future. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 90 (WE) |
Inc. GST
SG$1,118.12 |
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Wine Enthusiast (90)Mint and plum-juice flavors mingle easily in this densely fruity wine. It combines sweet tannins and dark fruit with spice imparted from wood aging. It's already juicily attractive. |
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Burgundy | 3 | 90 (WA) |
Inc. GST
SG$927.48 |
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Wine Advocate (90)Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. Initially, the Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru Aux Thorey from Cathiard seems to have a lot of oak smothering the sappy black fruit, although with aeration it coalesces nicely and develops attractive floral scents. The palate is well balanced with crisp acidity cutting through the thickset fruit. This feels a little primal and flirts with over-extraction but I think it does not step over the mark. Give this 5-6 years and this could turn into a fine Nuits Saint Georges. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 93-96 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$4,249.81 |
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Vinous (93-96)Good full red. Superripe, musky aromas of strawberry liqueur, roasted meat and smoky, stony minerality. Like a liquid confection in the mouth; thick and highly concentrated yet somehow lively and delineated, with terrific minerality and verve to its explosive flavors of sappy crushed berries and crushed rock. This impressively opulent and very ripe grand cru finishes extremely minerally and very long, with terrific grip and ineffable building perfume. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 89-92 (VN (ST)) |
Inc. GST
SG$10,658.52 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (89-92)Bright red. Pretty, scented nose offers raspberry, rose petal, Oriental spices and crushed rock; Vosne in a Chambolle direction. Then leanish and vibrant on the palate, with strong but harmonious acidity framing the flavors of dark fruits, flowers and minerals. Not fleshy but showy and enticing. Finishes with excellent verve and cut. These relatively young vines (planted in 1997) were farmed en bio for the first time in 2011. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 90-93 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$6,216.77 |
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Vinous (90-93)Bright red. Black raspberry, spices, animal fur and smoky minerality on the nose, with a light jammy suggestion and some pungent oak. Creamy-sweet and lush on the palate, with an old-viney thickness of texture that really saturates the mouth on the finish. This very ripe wine betrays just a tough of oaky harshness today, but there's also good lift from the calcaire-rich soil. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 91-94 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$12,800.37 |
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Vinous (91-94)Good bright, deep red. Black raspberry, maraschino cherry and a whiff of meat on the compelling nose. Thick, tactile and utterly smooth on the palate, but with real energy and mineral lift to the flavors of dark fruits, mint and wild herbs. Finishes with serious tannic clout but has the stuffing to support it. This impressively vibrant wine should reward eight to ten years of cellaring. |
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Burgundy | 4 | 90 (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$831.21 |
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Vinous (90)The 2011 Vosne-Romanée Village has a smooth and sensual bouquet that obliges coaxing from the glass, eventually revealing scents of crushed red cherry, strawberry and pressed white flowers. The aromatics feel cohesive and effortlessly bound together by the conspicuous oak. The palate is medium-bodied with fine definition, smooth and silky with ample red berry fruit and well-judged acidity. There is nothing pretentious about this Vosne-Romanée - just a really beautiful wine from Sébastien Cathiard. Tasted at Flint Wines Burgundy 2011 tasting. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 93+ (VN) |
Inc. GST
SG$2,614.69 |
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Vinous (93+)The 2011 Gevrey-Chambertin Clos Saint Jacques is simply impeccable. Sweet tobacco, menthol, wild flowers and dried herbs all add shades of dimension to the expressive, dark-toned fruit. The 100% new barrels and 80% whole clusters are both beautifully integrated. Today, the 2011 impresses for its depth and layers of pure flavor. |
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Bordeaux | 4 | 92 (VN (NM)) |
Inc. GST
SG$1,529.23 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (92)The 2011 Talbot has a light and fragrant bouquet with red berry fruit, bell pepper and earthy notes, a touch of sage emerging with time. The palate is well balanced with a satisfying succulent on the entry, quite fleshy for a Saint-Julien in this vintage, not complexity but judiciously spiced and lively on the finish. For me, this Talbot overperforms in context of the growing season. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting. |
Product Name | Region | Qty | Score | Price | |||||
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Bordeaux | 1 | 91 (WE) |
In Bond
SG$721.00 |
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Wine Enthusiast (91)Coming from the same stable as Léoville las Cases in Saint-Julien, the wine is finely structured with firm tannins and dark fruit. Rich plum flavors are counterbalanced by solid tannins. It needs to age, so drink from 2018. |
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Burgundy | 2 | 87-90 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$2,100.00 |
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Vinous (87-90)Bright ruby-red. Wild, musky aromas of dark berries and spices come across as a bit dull. Juicy and moderately deep but rather closed today, showing more saline minerality than primary fruit. This very backward wine finishes with slightly tough tannins and a lingering salty character. |
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Burgundy | 7 | 94 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$1,595.00 |
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Vinous (94)Good dark red. Expressive, high-toned nose shows a leesy complexity to the aromas of cherry, flowers, soil and what Patrick Landanger called blood peach. The palate offers uncanny energy and perfume, with sweet fruit lifted by spices and flowers. Lovely juiciness and class here. A wonderful Corton grand cru. Landanger did a much better job timing the harvest here than he did in 2012. |
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Burgundy | 2 | - |
In Bond
SG$8,995.00 |
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Burgundy | 1 | - |
In Bond
SG$4,785.00 |
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Burgundy | 1 | - |
In Bond
SG$2,975.00 |
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Rhone | 2 | 94 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$23,195.00 |
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Vinous (94)Bright ruby-red. An exotic bouquet presents black raspberry, incense, Asian spices and blood orange. On the palate, sweet red and dark berry flavors become more tangy and spicy with air. Shows an impressive blend of depth and vivacity and finishes with outstanding focus and thrust and gentle tannic grip. Evidently this wine didn't get the memo that 2011 couldn't produce outstanding wines. |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$1,905.00 |
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Vinous (94)Bright ruby-red. An exotic bouquet presents black raspberry, incense, Asian spices and blood orange. On the palate, sweet red and dark berry flavors become more tangy and spicy with air. Shows an impressive blend of depth and vivacity and finishes with outstanding focus and thrust and gentle tannic grip. Evidently this wine didn't get the memo that 2011 couldn't produce outstanding wines. |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$10,990.00 |
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Vinous (94)Bright ruby-red. An exotic bouquet presents black raspberry, incense, Asian spices and blood orange. On the palate, sweet red and dark berry flavors become more tangy and spicy with air. Shows an impressive blend of depth and vivacity and finishes with outstanding focus and thrust and gentle tannic grip. Evidently this wine didn't get the memo that 2011 couldn't produce outstanding wines. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 92 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$2,180.00 |
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Vinous (92)Good dark, bright red. Dark cherry, bitter chocolate and crushed stone on the nose. Broad, dry and refined, with a sweetness leavened by pungent red berry flavors complicated by spices, pepper and earth. Can't match the fruit intensity and freshness of the young 2012 version but the rising finish boasts glistening, sweet tannins and a sound structure for a graceful evolution in bottle. |
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Burgundy | 2 | 89 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$1,725.00 |
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Vinous (89)(this was bottled in March of 2013, just two months after the malolactic fermentation finished): Bright ruby-red. Wild, very ripe aromas and flavors of black raspberry and game. Good intensity and texture, with slightly peppery acidity enlivening the middle palate. Finishes with serious tannins and a lingering herbal quality. This was totally destemmed, as Nicolas Groffier did not think the stems were ripe enough in 2011. He compares the family's 2011s to its '97s and its 2012s to its '02s. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 94-97 (VN (ST)) |
In Bond
SG$2,150.00 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (94-97)Medium red, a bit less deep than the Clos de Beze. Medicinal raspberry, red cherry, flowers, crushed stone and a minty nuance on the nose; quite ethereal and perfumed, with little sign of the gamey, earthy side of this great grand cru. At once velvety and sharply etched, combining penetrating sweetness with terrific grip. Finishes with outstanding palate-staining perfume, a suggestion of menthol and noble tannins. Wonderfully delicate and light on its feet for all its power. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 93-96 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$2,085.00 |
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Vinous (93-96)Good bright, deep red. Aromas of black raspberry, rose petal and menthol show an almost liqueur-like ripeness. Then wonderfully sappy and vinous in the mouth, with a powerful crushed stone element giving punch to the creamy mid-palate. This is in the style of Potel's Lavaux Saint-Jaques, offering outstanding precision and class and a powerful impression of energy. Can't quite match the Chambertin for sheer grip but this wine is like a wake-up call to the taste buds. (The Griottes-Chambertin, which finished its malo later, was quite youthfully clenched and oaky, and impossible to assess with confidence.) |
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Burgundy | 3 | 92-95 (VN (ST)) |
In Bond
SG$2,680.00 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (92-95)Deep red-ruby. Cherry liqueur, crushed rock, exotic spices and a lightly medicinal quality on the nose. Dense, velvety and sweet, with terrific vinosity and underlying spine intensifying the black cherry and dark berry flavors. Quite sweet on the back end, with the substantial tannins arriving late. This wine includes fruit from five different sources and very different sites, according to Potel. Splendid potential. |
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Burgundy | 3 | 93+ (VN) |
In Bond
SG$2,530.00 |
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Vinous (93+)Dark, deep, bright red. Very closed, brooding nose suggests cassis and black cherry. Then surprisingly silky and seamless on the palate, with lovely inner-mouth energy and saline minerality to the red fruit and floral flavors. Really mounts in sweetness on the tactile, expansive peacock's tail of a finish without any loss of shape. In fact, this beauty tightened up with a day in the refrigerator. |
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Bordeaux | 5 | 91 (WS) |
In Bond
SG$864.00 |
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Wine Spectator (91)This has muscular layers of fig, boysenberry compote, blackberry confiture and tobacco notes coursing underneath. The tannins are refined, with a lingering elegance to offset the heft. This should age well. Best from 2015 through 2025. 8,330 cases made. -JM |
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Burgundy | 1 | 88-91 (BH) |
In Bond
SG$1,235.00 |
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Burghound (88-91)A brooding and inexpressive nose features a very fresh and impressively complex mélange of wild dark berries, humus, underbrush and game hints. There is good volume and mid-palate density to the mouth coating and mineral-inflected flavors that possess fine balance and length. A very good villages. |
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Burgundy | 1 | - |
In Bond
SG$3,510.00 |
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Rhone | 3 | 98 (JS) |
In Bond
SG$1,375.00 |
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James Suckling (98)I tasted this and I thought of the great Rayas from the late 1980s. Full body, bright fruit and a creamy texture. Its purity of fruit is amazing with dark berry, spice, meat and dried flowers. The first vintage of this was 2009. Made from old vines planted in the 1940s. Aged three years in demi mouie. Very low sulfur too. Drink or hold |
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Rhone | 1 | 94 (WA) |
In Bond
SG$907.00 |
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Wine Advocate (94)The 2011 Châteauneuf du Pape Omnia is a smoking blend of 80% Grenache, 10% Syrah and 10% Mourvedre that was fermented with 100% whole-cluster and aged two years in barrels, on lees, and never racked. It offers up a gorgeous perfume of sweet black cherries, kirsch liqueur, garrigue, crushed flowers and toasted spice that gives way to full-bodied richness, solid mid-palate depth and building tannin that emerges on the finish. While this has the vintage's more supple nature, I love the depth and richness on the palate, and it will evolve gracefully for at least 10-12 years. Importer: Atherton Wine Imports, Atherton CA; tel. (650) 328-6639 |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 92 (WE) |
In Bond
SG$740.00 |
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Wine Enthusiast (92)Ripe and spicy, with delicious open fruit, this wine is rounded yet has a straight line of pure acidity. It has a light touch while showing depth of flavor for the future. |
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Bordeaux | 1 | 90 (WE) |
In Bond
SG$907.00 |
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Wine Enthusiast (90)Mint and plum-juice flavors mingle easily in this densely fruity wine. It combines sweet tannins and dark fruit with spice imparted from wood aging. It's already juicily attractive. |
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Burgundy | 3 | 90 (WA) |
In Bond
SG$841.00 |
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Wine Advocate (90)Tasted blind at the Burgundy 2011 horizontal tasting in Beaune. Initially, the Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru Aux Thorey from Cathiard seems to have a lot of oak smothering the sappy black fruit, although with aeration it coalesces nicely and develops attractive floral scents. The palate is well balanced with crisp acidity cutting through the thickset fruit. This feels a little primal and flirts with over-extraction but I think it does not step over the mark. Give this 5-6 years and this could turn into a fine Nuits Saint Georges. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 93-96 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$3,890.00 |
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Vinous (93-96)Good full red. Superripe, musky aromas of strawberry liqueur, roasted meat and smoky, stony minerality. Like a liquid confection in the mouth; thick and highly concentrated yet somehow lively and delineated, with terrific minerality and verve to its explosive flavors of sappy crushed berries and crushed rock. This impressively opulent and very ripe grand cru finishes extremely minerally and very long, with terrific grip and ineffable building perfume. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 89-92 (VN (ST)) |
In Bond
SG$9,725.00 |
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Vinous - Stephen Tanzer (89-92)Bright red. Pretty, scented nose offers raspberry, rose petal, Oriental spices and crushed rock; Vosne in a Chambolle direction. Then leanish and vibrant on the palate, with strong but harmonious acidity framing the flavors of dark fruits, flowers and minerals. Not fleshy but showy and enticing. Finishes with excellent verve and cut. These relatively young vines (planted in 1997) were farmed en bio for the first time in 2011. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 90-93 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$5,650.00 |
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Vinous (90-93)Bright red. Black raspberry, spices, animal fur and smoky minerality on the nose, with a light jammy suggestion and some pungent oak. Creamy-sweet and lush on the palate, with an old-viney thickness of texture that really saturates the mouth on the finish. This very ripe wine betrays just a tough of oaky harshness today, but there's also good lift from the calcaire-rich soil. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 91-94 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$11,690.00 |
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Vinous (91-94)Good bright, deep red. Black raspberry, maraschino cherry and a whiff of meat on the compelling nose. Thick, tactile and utterly smooth on the palate, but with real energy and mineral lift to the flavors of dark fruits, mint and wild herbs. Finishes with serious tannic clout but has the stuffing to support it. This impressively vibrant wine should reward eight to ten years of cellaring. |
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Burgundy | 4 | 90 (VN) |
In Bond
SG$754.00 |
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Vinous (90)The 2011 Vosne-Romanée Village has a smooth and sensual bouquet that obliges coaxing from the glass, eventually revealing scents of crushed red cherry, strawberry and pressed white flowers. The aromatics feel cohesive and effortlessly bound together by the conspicuous oak. The palate is medium-bodied with fine definition, smooth and silky with ample red berry fruit and well-judged acidity. There is nothing pretentious about this Vosne-Romanée - just a really beautiful wine from Sébastien Cathiard. Tasted at Flint Wines Burgundy 2011 tasting. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 93+ (VN) |
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SG$2,280.00 |
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Vinous (93+)The 2011 Gevrey-Chambertin Clos Saint Jacques is simply impeccable. Sweet tobacco, menthol, wild flowers and dried herbs all add shades of dimension to the expressive, dark-toned fruit. The 100% new barrels and 80% whole clusters are both beautifully integrated. Today, the 2011 impresses for its depth and layers of pure flavor. |
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Bordeaux | 4 | 92 (VN (NM)) |
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SG$1,300.00 |
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Vinous - Neal Martin (92)The 2011 Talbot has a light and fragrant bouquet with red berry fruit, bell pepper and earthy notes, a touch of sage emerging with time. The palate is well balanced with a satisfying succulent on the entry, quite fleshy for a Saint-Julien in this vintage, not complexity but judiciously spiced and lively on the finish. For me, this Talbot overperforms in context of the growing season. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting. |