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St Estephe

The 1998 Beau-site has notes of wood, leather, cedar, lead, blackcurrant. Grippy tannins and good acidity. Fully mature - drink now.

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Price: $68.41 USD
Stock: 12 in Stock

Haut Medoc, Cru Borgeois

Taken up by Emilie Borie in 1900, this superb Médoc property soon began to produce wines coveted for their power and character. Three generations down the line and it's François and Jean Nony who take care of Château Caronne Sainte-Gemme. The 45 hectares of vines grow in deep gravel soil that allows for the idea conservation of heat. The vines also have to push deep to draw water, taking in myriad minerals on the way. Once the grapes have been harvested (by hand) and sorted twice, there is a cold maceration to transmit all the colour, aromas and tannins held in the grape's skin to the wine. There are then several instances of punching down during fermentation. …
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Price: $47.86 USD
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Pauillac 4th Growth Classification

*** 89 Points - Parker ***

Reviews "This dense ruby/purple-colored blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon and 33% Merlot has filled out nicely during its upbringing in wood. It exhibits a fruitcake, cedar, spice box, plum, black raspberry, and currant-scented bouquet, excellent richness, moderate levels of sweet tannin, fine purity, and a complex style. Anticipated maturity: 2005-2020. Produced by the Rothschild's brilliant administrator, Charles Chevalier, Duhart Milon is a wine to watch." Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, 2001
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Price: $130.10 USD
Stock: 5 in Stock

Saint-Julien

The 1998 Gruaud Larose appears to be a potential sleeper of the vintage, and may merit an outstanding score. It is a powerful, bulky style of Gruaud-Larose, with a dark ruby/purple color, and plenty of cassis, spicy new oak, and roasted herbs in the jammy nose. On the palate, the wine has lost much of the forward precociousness it was revealing last spring, now boasting loads of tannin in its powerful, muscular flavors.
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Price: $162.97 USD
Stock: 12 in Stock

St Emilion
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Chateau La Dominique from the excellent 1998 vintage is now at its sumptuous peak and is drinking well. It will hold for a few more years.

Reviews:
91 points Vinous
The 1998 La Dominique replicates the fine performance it showed from magnum two weeks earlier. The bouquet offers blackberry, raspberry coulis, sage and truffle on the nose, a touch of mint developing with time. The palate is medium-bodied with fine grain tannins, still fresh and cohesive with black fruit, tobacco, a touch of dark chocolate with a finish you might easily mistake for a Pomerol. There is just a note of dryness and linearity on the finish, at least in the bottle, but larger formats should still give lots of pleasure. …
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Price: $135.58 USD
Stock: 12 in Stock

Medoc, Cru Bourgeois

From the good 1998 vintage, the Chateau La Tour de By has a slightly diffuse, tobacco scented nose followed by a palate of moderate concentration with cedar and tobacco. Quite a soft texture but with vibrant acidity.
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Price: $53.34 USD
Stock: 14 in Stock

St Julien, 3rd Growth Classification

90-92 Points Wine Journal

"A great Langoa - nose slowly opening up. Dark black fruits with masses of pencil-lead aromas. Good depth with structured inky black fruits. This is an excellent well-made wine. Tasted May 2000." Neil Martin, Wine Journal
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Price: $121.88 USD
Stock: 11 in Stock

Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classe

Many regard Latour as the greatest of Bordeaux's Premier Crus. The 1998 Chateau Latour is a refined, elegant offering with a dark ruby colour, sweet cassis fruit, attractive fat, surprisingly soft tannin, and a good finish. There is firmness and muscle in the background, but this is not an enormous or powerful Latour. However, it is very pure, with the vineyard's mineral/black fruit character presented in a medium-weight format.
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Price: $609.42 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Margaux 1er Grand Cru Classe
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91 points Vinous
The 1998 Château Margaux is a vintage that I have not tasted for a decade. Now at 20 years old it has retained a deep garnet colour with very little ageing on the rim, in fact, one of the most youthful-looking 1998 Left Banks that I encountered. The nose is gorgeous: very well defined with black cherries, fresh fig, touches of sous-bois and leather. As I have noted before, what it does not offer is the floral element that is the signature of many other vintages. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. It feels more mature on the palate than on the nose with secondary notes of sage, black pepper, irony notes and a touch of bell pepper. …
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Price: $677.90 USD
Stock: 12 in Stock

St Emilion Grand Cru

The 1998 still reveals an unmistakable similarity to the famed Pomerol, Lafleur. Kirsch liqueur, spice, and mineral notes are the hallmarks of this wine, which combines breed, power, and elegance. Supple tannin, a medium-bodied, plush texture, and fine purity characterize this delicious, complex, stylish St.-Emilion.
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Price: $94.50 USD
Stock: 11 in Stock

Vieux Mas des Papes

The 1998 Vieux Mas des Papes is drinking very well right now- earthy nose, rich fruit. Leather and resolved tannins, has the fruit to hold on a few more years and the tannins would continue to develop
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Price: $82.10 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock

Colheita Port - Includes Kopke Wooden Gift Box

History and exclusivity are two of the words that best describe Kopke, a brand synonymous with prestige. Kopke existed even before there was a demarcated Region of the Douro. Established in 1638, the oldest Port wine house built an impeccable reputation based on the highest quality. A leader in the production of Port Tawny Colheita wines, including white port, Kopke has a remarkable and highly awarded range of special category Ports.

Presented in the port house's unmistakable and unique hand-painted bottle, this 1998 Kopke Tawny Colheita is elegant and complex. An amalgamation of rich flavours is marked by the presence of dried fruits, with a burst of freshness in red cherries enhanced by an exuberant note of spice. …
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Price: $68.41 USD
Stock: 7 in Stock

Vintage Port
Special Offer | Was £59.95 | Now £44.95
Includes Wooden Gift Box

"The 1998 Kopke Vintage Port has a dark core with an amber halo. On the nose there are notes of dark cherry and cinnamon which translate into the taste. Medium bodied and in good balance between the sweetness and acidity - Medium finish feels like it is at peak maturity but will hold for another decade. Impressive effort by Kopke.” 89/100 very good TC VWP 06/21

Kopke Port is the oldest port house. Established in 1638 by Nicolau Kopke and his son Cristiano, who came to Portugal as representatives of the Hanseatic League, the House has been run through the generations by several representatives of the Kopke family, obtaining an excellent reputation for its wines. …
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Price: $61.56 USD
Stock: 4 in Stock

Justino's - Tinta Negra

"Attractive and bright amber lightly charged. Elegant, pleasant and complex aroma with notes of molasses, creme brulee and walnut. Rich in the mouth with notes of dried fruit cake, candied orange and fruit caramels." 17 pts Jancis Robinson
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Price: $67.11 USD
Stock: 60 in Stock

d'Abruzzo, Miglianico

Montepulciano is a red wine grape variety grown widely in central Italy, most notably its eastern Abruzzo, Marche and Molise regions. The variety was named after the Tuscan parish of Montepulciano, but, confusingly, is not used in the famous wines produced there (see Vino Nobile di Montepulciano). Globally appreciated for their soft flavors, strong color and gentle tannins, Montepulciano wines are typically best consumed in their youth and with food. The deep-purple juice of Montepulciano grapes is used in varying proportions to produce wines under roughly 50 of Italy's DOC and DOCG titles. Although sometimes used on its own, …
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Price: $53.41 USD
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Bohemi - Le Fracce

Intense crimson-red colour and purplish froth with complex aroma of violet, cherry and mixed berries, fizzy, medium bodied wine.
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Napa Valley
Mondavi and Rothschild

The 1998 Opus One is initially somewhat closed it opened up with cassis, leather, and caramel. Not as thin or vegetal as other ‘98’s that I’ve had I was pleasantly surprised. Still has some time left but won’t get much better. Cellar Tracker Review

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Price: $540.95 USD
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Quinta do Passadouro, Vintage Port

In the nose: A lot of alcohol. It has a powerful nose but it’s not very complex. Liquorice, dark fruit, dark chocolate. There is also an amaretto cookie element coming through which is quite nice.
Taste: A creamy velvet texture. At the start a lot of freshness which is followed up very quickly with a lot of alcohol that attacks the palate. Dried fruit, some liquorice, and a really nice acidity.
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Price: $68.41 USD
Stock: 5 in Stock

Vintage Port

Tasting Note:

The Quinta do Vesuvio 1998 remains slightly muted on the nose with notes of small black cherries smoke and sage. The palate is medium-bodied with powdery tannins the fruits having mellowed over the last few years less high-toned with attractive black olive notes inflecting the glossy black fruits. The finish is still a little broody with a smudge of alcohol denying it delineation. Drink now-2025. Tasted October 2011. Source: eRobertParker.com

Rating: 87 RP Reviewed by Neal Martin Date: February 2012




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Price: $121.88 USD
Stock: 2 in Stock

Vintage Champagne Zao Wou-Ki Label

For his collaboration with Taittinger Champagne, Zao Wou-Ki takes us into a world which characterises his style of abstraction.

‘I paint what isn’t seen’ he said. ‘My paintings become unreadable. Still life and flowers no longer exist. I am attracted by marks which are imaginary, indecipherable’. Indecipherable maybe, but not unfathomable to those who allow themselves to be led into his mysterious abysses, sea beds, phantasmagorical grottos and skies, which are both calm and stormy, where the viewer is drawn into a feeling of complete physical freedom and weightlessness.

The bottle contains a Brut Millésimé 1998, made from Chardonnay (50 %) and Pinot Noir (50 %), taken from the best vintages. …
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Price: $582.04 USD
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Il Calepino

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Price: $39.72 USD
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Jean Grivot, Vosne-Romanée Les Rouges 1998 1er Cru, Côte de Nuits

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Price: $162.97 USD
Stock: 9 in Stock

Single Harvest Tawny Port (50cl bottle)
Special Offer | Was £39 | Now £34.95

A 50cl bottle of 1997 vintage Colheita Port Wine from Palmer Port. This is exclusive to Vintage Wine & Port.
This rare Port Wine has been stored in seasoned oak casks since the 1997 harvest until it was bottled this year.

Tasting Notes: The 1997 Port from Palmer has a light oak colour. Much elegance on the nose with orange peel, walnuts, figs and a touch of honey. On the palate, there is a lightness that is balanced by good acidity. This port wine delivers a beautiful flavour supported by a long, long finish. Outstanding.

STORAGE
The wine is ready to drink and does not require decanting. …
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Price: $47.86 USD
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Ryst Dupeyron Reserve Joseph Millesime vintage Armagnac
50cl bottle

The 1997 Dupeyron Armagnac is the expression of a single year and has a unique character associated with the year and the cask in which it has been stored. These vintages are bottled at the alcohol level in which they naturally come out of the cask. There is a wonderful contrast between the sweet and sour flavours of wood, amplified by the strong alcoholic degree. Rich palate feeling the alcohol and the concentration of dry plums, spicy with persistent flavour of rancio and of spices, but round, soft and long in the finish. The tannins are very present, but full-bodied and round.

The Maison Ryst-Dupeyon was founded by Joseph Dupeyron in 1905. …
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Price: $94.43 USD
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Colheita Single Harvest Port

Having spent at least 7 years in cask this 1997 colheita port from JW Hart is essentially a tawny port with a vintage date. This luscious port offers wonderful dried fig, sultanas, Crème brûlée and walnut aromas and flavours, with soft mouthfeel and a high acidity balancing beautifully the port's sweetness. It is finishing off in a long satisfying nutty aftertaste.
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Price: $54.71 USD
Stock: 17 in Stock