4/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Orange rind, white peach, pineapple and green apples create the nose. There is a touch of salinity that adds to the sweet yellow fruits, honey and green apples in the finish. The wine blends 65% Sauvignon Blanc with 35% Semillon. Drink from 2024-2028.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Still youthful, the wine is on the bright, crisp, crunchy side of the style range. The red berries are quite vibrant, with a mint, herb, tobacco, and cedar coating on the palate, and in the sweet, and tart, cherry, cranberry, olive, herb, and citrus finish. This is quite classic in an old-school style. Drink from 2024-2042.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Cocoa, tea, flowers, red berries, truffle, spearmint and spice form the nose, The complex offers ripe, and overripe red fruits with an herbal-edge with tobacco-infused red pit fruits, and cocoa surrounded by dark chocolate. There is a firmness to the texture, along with chewy red fruits with a lush-edge that lingers on your palate. Drink from 2024-2033.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Each time I taste this wine, I am convinced I will never have it again, yet, here we are. Served blind, I thought it was 1961 Latour. But, this was even better! The incredible nose, with its mint, cedar, tobacco, barbecue, smoked meat, herbs, spices, pepper and black cherries was off the hook! The palate experience was even better with its wall of firm, smoky cherries, spice, herbs, and peppery mint. Crisp, intense, long, seamless, and complex, the wine exceeds the 60-second mark, and just keeps on going! What a wine. Drink from 2024-2060.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

It has been far too long since I last tasted this gem. The good news, it is still a beautiful wine loaded with menthol, mint-leaf, cherries, tobacco, bright, red plums and smoke. The mid-palate is medium-bodied, smoky, fresh, and spicy with a salty edge to the red berries in the finish. No decanting is needed here, this is fully developed. Drink from 2024-2030.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

A rare treat indeed, this gem delivers its smoke, flowers, cherries, licorice, and herb filled perfume with little effort. The palate follows through as expected with its bright, fresh, earthy, herb, cedar, and tobacco-tinted mid-palate and finish. Drink from 2024-2035.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Stunning in every sense of the word, this wine has it all from start to finish. It is elegant, pure, complex, regal, energetic, and seamless, with a vibrant finish that once it gets started, keeps right on going as it builds and expands. Drink from 2024-2060.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

The best examples of this are simply great. Elegant, floral, refined, and packed with sweet, spicy, red fruits. cigar wrappers, currants, and cherries. There is length, energy, lift, freshness, and complexity. Drink from 2024-2040.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Fading, so this is not a bottle for further aging. If it has been well stored, you can still find truffles, cedar, tobacco, spice, and cherries in the nose. On the palate, the wine is firm, regal, and spicy, with a bright, earthy, red berry finish. This is not a wine for further aging. Drink from 2024-2028.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Slightly perhaps its best days, yet, if well stored, this is a beauty. The perfume delivers its smoke, cassis, dried flowers, cedar and earthy notes easily. Medium-bodied, finesse in style, with a black cherry, and spice note in the finish. No decanting needed, just pop and pour. Drink from 2024-2028.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

If you are a fan of La Mission Haut Brion, with some extra money burning a hole in your pocket, this is the wine to buy. It has all the power, layers of perfectly ripe, earthy, smoky, leafy, tobacco covered fruits, balanced, poised and graceful, with the ability to age and evolve for decades. Drink from 2024-2050.

4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Tobacco, smoke, citrus, hot stones, tar, leather, herbs, red berries, and hint of citrus crowd into the nose. On the palate, the wine is even better with its power, intensity, vibrancy, and depth, finishing with bright, red fruits, truffle, tar, smoke, and cedar. Drink from 2024-2045.

4/1/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Youthful, but in a perfect spot, the nose expresses blackberries, smoke, charcoal, wild herbs and espresso with little effort. Full-bodied, lush, firm, and filled with salty black cherries, blackberries, chocolate, licorice, and plums, the minerality becomes more apparent as the finish lingers. Pop and pour, or decant for 1 hour, either way this is singing. Drink from 2024-2040.

3/30/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

It 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.

3/23/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Perhaps the top value in the appellation is already delicious in your glass due to its creamy-textured black cherries, chocolate, espresso blackberries, and spice. Forward, round, and ready-to-go, give it 30 minutes of air, and it’s even better. Drink from 2024-2037.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Black cherries, chalk and chocolate, with a delicate hint of salt are the focus of the refined, supple, soft, medium-bodied, elegant Pomerol. No decanting needed. This is ready-to-go. Drink from 2024-2035.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Opulent, and hedonistic in style, the wine is all about hitting your pleasure buttons with waves of peppery, black cherries, kirsch, garrigue, black plums, and blackberries. The creamy, sensuous finish builds as it lingers. Drink from 2024-2040.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Medium-bodied, lighter, elegant, fresh, vibrant-styled wine with a focus on its core of sweet, earthy, spicy kirsch, and finesse-edged finish. This is close to fully developed, there is no reason to wait to open a bottle if you own any. Drink from 2024-2031.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Elegance meshed with power, purity, and complexity says it all. This stunner, and it is stunning offers a complex array of roses, kirsch, licorice, cherries, raspberries, and kirsch in the perfume. And the palate is even better with its endless layers of vibrant, opulent, deep, red fruits, spice, and pepper herbs that do not want to quit. While you can enjoy this today, give it some more time as this will age for decades. Drink from 2028-2050.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Simply fabulous, hedonistic, opulent, and deep, the wine is packed with dark cherries, kirsch, pepper, herbs, and earth. The wine is supple, rich, fresh, and long, with length, depth, and purity. This is beautiful now and is only going to better from here. Drink from 2024-2040.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Fully-evolved, with its focus on dried cherries, roses, orange peel, and zesty, sweet kirsch. Lighter in weight than the top vintages, there is a gorgeous sense of purity to the sweet kirsch and cherries. I just wish there was more of it. Drink from 2024-2031.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Black raspberries, kirsch, garrigue, plums, and black cherries are all over the place. A bit light in weight, but still, quite charming, and fully-ready-to-go. Drink from 2024-2028.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

One of the great vintages of Rayas is still on top of its game. Full, deep, and intense, the wine opens with garrigue, peppery herbs, kirsch, flowers, smoked herbs, and spice. The vibrant palate is long, seamless, and fresh, delivering non-stop, seamless layers of sweet, ripe kirsch. Drink from 2024-2038.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

As stunning as the previous bottle, this gem popped with its complex aromatic profile, easily displaying its flowers, spice, citrus, herbs, cherries, and black raspberries. The wine remains fresh, almost zesty with a peppery edge to the herb, and kirsch-packed finish. This is a beauty! Drink from 2024-2032.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

From a vintage without much of a reputation, this is quite a surprise. The wine offers ample levels of sweet, ripe, kirsch, dried flowers, mint, and spice. On the palate, the wine is fresh, refined, medium-bodied, and loaded with sweet, bright, kirsch notes. Drink from 2024-2030.

3/22/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Elegant, spicy, floral, and loaded with kirsch, black raspberries, olives, leaves, and garrigue. Medium-bodied, finesse driven, the wine is still delivering the goods, though I would not hold my luck with further aging. Drink from 2024-2029.

3/20/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

This 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.

3/20/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

The wine kicks off with its cherry, leaf, and floral perfume before you dig into a big juicy mouthful of black, and red fruits, spice, cedar, and tobacco. The wine borders the corners of robust and regal in style. 1 hour of decanting is all that's needed. Drink from 2024-2045.

3/17/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

This is a good time to start popping corks on this gem. Over the years, this has blossomed into a fabulous wine. Now, you find smoky red, and black fruits, dried flowers, cedar, cigar wrappers, spices, and peppery thyme. There is a refined edge to the textures on the palate. The vibrant finish blends wild cherries, spices, blackberries, herbs, and smoke. The wine evolves in your mouth leaving you with a peppery-edged, lingering finish. Drink from 2024-2045.

3/12/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Slightly past its prime. Yet, there was enough in the tobacco, cedar, smoke, and earthy, bright red currant aromas, along with a medium-bodied, soft palate, and light, bright, cherry finish to be a nice, easy-drinking, aged Bordeaux with spending time with. Drink from 2024-2026.

3/11/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Fully developed, medium-bodied, elegant, fresh, and aromatic, with an aromatic profile of dried flowers, tobacco leaves, cherries, thyme, and crushed rocks. Finesse styled, refined, soft, and vibrant, the elegant, red berry finish leaves you with a touch of salt on top of the fruits. No decanting needed. Pop, pour, and enjoy. Drink from 2024-2034.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Elegant, 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.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Opulent, lush, round, concentrated, and loaded with deep, dark, peppery red berries, kirsch, flowers, and herbs, with a long, supple, elegant finish to seal the deal. Drink from 2024-2040.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Medium-bodied, forward, already delicious wine expressing raspberries, peppery strawberries, olives, and herbs, with a soft-textured finish. You can enjoy this on release with ease. Drink from 2024-2030.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Peppery herbs, flowers and kirsch define the core of this medium-bodied, forward, soft, supple, early-drinking charmer, finishing with sweet red fruits and spice. The wine blends 90% Grenache, 4% Syrah, 4% Mourvedre, 1% Vaccarese and 1% Counoise. The wine will be enjoyable on release and over the next several years. Drink from 2024-2030.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Medium-bodied, forward, and loaded with sweet, ripe, kirsch, strawberries, and red plums, with a touch of flowers and garrigue, this soft-textured, delicious wine is good-to-go on release. Drink from 2024-2031.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Flowers, black cherries, black pepper, herbs, spices, and sweet plums create the perfume. The wine is round, almost creamy, and with ample, peppery, red fruits on the palate. Drink from 2024-2036.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Flowers, spices, fennel, cherries, herbs, and peppery essences combine in the nose and on the medium-bodied, savory-edged, pepper-infused palate. The wine blends Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, and a dash of Cinsault. Drink from 2024-2035.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Medium-bodied, fresh, bright, kirsch. black raspberries, herbs, and fennel in the nose, and on the medium-bodied, soft, forward palate. You can enjoy this on release and for close to a decade after that. Drink from 2024-2032.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Medium-bodied, elegant, meaty, floral, peppery, and herbal, with ample layers of kirsch, black raspberries, strawberries, and spice from start to finish are already delicious in your glass. The wine is produced from 100% old vine Grenache. Drink from 2024-2034.

3/10/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Medium-bodied, with a core of peppery kirsch, flowers, and spice in the nose and on the soft palate works here from start to finish, leaving you with sweet, cherries, and spice in the savory-edged finish. The wine blends about 70% Grenache, 15% Syrah, 12% Mourvedre, and 3% Cinsault. Drink from 2024-2031.

3/6/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

The perfume offers flowers, black cherries, licorice, chocolate-covered plums, crushed rocks, stones, and espresso as its aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is silky, spicy, vibrant, refined, and focused on its supple-textured, red plum, and dark cherry-filled profile. The long finish is loaded with sweet, ripe, red fruits with a touch of salted chocolate that comes in at the end of the finish. This is quite successful for the vintage. The wine blends 73% Merlot with 27% Cabernet Franc. Yields were low at only 28 hectoliters per hectare. This is the first vintage to sport its new label and its now, abbreviated name. Drink from 2026 - 2055.

3/6/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Oyster shell, smoke, currants, cherries and tobacco leaves create the perfume. On the palate, the wine is fresh, elegant, vibrant and chewy, with a nice, spicy edge to the crisp, savory red berries in the mid-palate that carry all the way through to the mildly salty finish. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot. Drink from 2024-2036.

3/5/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Lemon peel and floral notes pop in the nose. On the palate, the wine delivers fresh, citrus and pears with a nice touch of spice. As the name implies, this is one of the few 100% Chardonnay's coming from Bordeaux today. Drink from 2024-2028.

3/5/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Elegant, silky, refined, vibrant, and almost crisp, this mini Cheval Blanc is already simply gorgeous with its bouquet of flowers, cigar box, mint, cherries, plums, and spice. The wine blends its silky-refined textures with freshness, lift, and purity in its energetic, red berry-packed finish. The wine blends 60% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon and 7% Cabernet Franc. The high proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend defines the wine. You can enjoy this on release and for at least the next 15 years. Drink from 2024-2040.

3/9/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Medium-bodied, with a licorice, herb and bright red currant center, the wine is forward, crisp and herbal on the mid-palate and finish. Drink from 2024-2033.

3/5/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Forward, open and accessible, the medium-bodied, soft-textured, cherry and red plum tones come with a touch of salt, ending with a refreshing, cool touch of mint in the finish. Drink from 2034-2035.

3/5/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Medium-bodied, with a core of accessible chocolate coated cherries in the nose and on the palate, this is going to be delicious and quite easy to enjoy on release and over the next decade or so. Drink from 2024-2035.

3/5/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Mint, pepper, flowers, and black raspberries form the complex aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, fresh and plummy, with a side of crisp red cherries and peppery spices to match. Trapaud has one of the highest percentages of Cabernet Franc planted in Saint Emilion today at close to 70'%. This is quite successful for the vintage. Drink from 2024-2037.

3/5/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Medium-bodied, forward, soft and creamy, this lighter, fresh, medium-bodied, cherry and chocolate-edged wine has a peppery edge on the backend of the finish. You can enjoy this easily on release and for close to a decade after that. Drink from 2024-2033.