Catalog
These "Spring-Summer 2024" offers are designed to help you discover a producer, a vintage, a new cuvée or a particular success story, at a discounted price. They will remain valid until 15 October 2024, unless we run out of stock.
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Coralie de Boüard (daughter of Hubert de Boüard, owner of Angélus) has embarked on a new project in Montagne Saint-Émilion. Right from its first vintage (2016), Clos de Boüard is already a success, greedy, fleshy and devilishly seductive (85% Merlot). According to Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve, Clos Boüard is “a trusted address for wine lovers”.
The 2017 vintage in the press:
Vinous (Neal Martin - February 2020) : 92/100 “Clos de Boüard 2017 offers delicious aromas of blackberry, brioche and light tobacco on the nose, which prove nicely concentrated. The palate is medium-bodied, with excellent acidity. The texture is velvety and very harmonious, with subtle notes of tar and graphite on the finish. This is an excellent Montagne Saint-Émilion from the de Boüard family. Apogée 2022-2036." (remarkable note for a wine at less than €25.00 a bottle)
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- Ready to drink
- Apogée:
- 2022-2030
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Property Rothschild (Mouton), with d'Armailhac. Apart from the terroir, the main difference between the two crus is the increased proportion of Merlot in Clerc-Milon (35% as opposed to 20%), giving it additional smoothness and richness. Since 2007 Clerc-Milon has benefited from its own vat room, a new winery and a dedicated team of 21 people so that Clerc-Milon can compete qualitatively with Lynch-Bages and Pontet-Canet.
The 2016 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2019): 95/100 Coup de ♥ “It's hard to resist the charm of this wine, all power and refinement. Everything is in place, it expresses lots of flavors, with very fine-grained tannins, and above all lingers for a long time.”
Vinous (Neal Martin- January 2020): 93/100 “Clerc-Milon 2016 presents a lively bouquet imbued with graphite and well-defined black fruits, with hints of peony and iris petals in the watermark. The classic palate is medium-bodied, with fine-grained tannins, well-balanced acidity and just the right amount of austerity towards a finish with a hint of bitterness. Excellent.”
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- Ready to drink
- Apogée:
- 2025-2040
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Second wine of the Vieux Château Certan, where we find the authenticity, the race and the seriousness of the great wine.
The 2021 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 93/100 Coup de ♥ “La Gravette, a selection of young Merlot vines, enchants us with its sapidity and gourmandise. The wine benefits from an almost Ligerian acid support, underlining millimetric tannins and intense salinity.”
Vinous (A. Galloni - February 2024): 92/100 “The Gravette de Certan 2021 is 100% Merlot from the estate's youngest vines. Supple, soft and quite approachable, the 2021 is a pleasant wine to drink now and over the next decade. Red/purple fruits, lavender, mocha and spices are in the spotlight.”
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- Ready to drink
- Apogée:
- 2025-2040
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Vieux Château Certan is one (the last?) of the very few Bordeaux grands crus where the owners, Alexandre Thienpont and his son Guillaume since 2011, are still the only cellar masters on board. Thanks to its Cabernet Franc (30% on average), Vieux-Certan offers a firm, distinguished and refined version of Pomerol, closer to Lafleur than Petrus. Its 2022 vintage has been showered with praise, as in Vinous, where the two tasters (Galloni and Martin) each rated it 100/100.
The 2021 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 97/100 “This great wine benefits from the balance of yesteryear, with a slender frame enveloped by pulpy, greedy fruit. On the nose, it's a festival, with irresistible mineral and iodine intensity”.
Vinous (A. Galloni - February 2024) : 98/100 “ Vieux Château Certan 2021 could well be the wine of the vintage in the Right Bank. Intensely aromatic and nuanced, with exceptional balance, the 2021 is immediately classy. Of course, it doesn't have the richness or density of most previous vintages, but it more than makes up for it with sublime harmony and great freshness.”
Vinous (N. Martin - February 2024) : 96/100 “Aromas of graphite, pencil sharpener, tobacco and light gravel melt into the black fruit. The style is resolutely classic. The palate is deliciously balanced and harmonious, with perfect acidity. There's a linearity befitting the VCC's Pomerol style and a wonderful salinity on the finish that lingers. This wine transcends the limits of the vintage. Exceptional."
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- Wait 3 to 5 years
- Apogée:
- 2025-2040
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This is the domain which, by its passage into biodynamic viticulture and its parcel selections, shows the most beautiful qualitative progression of the Loire Valley. Crystalline Chenins and ripe Cabernet Franc, all matured with mastery to sublimate the purity and identity of the juices, between tension, crispness, refinement and generosity. In white as in red, a dazzling and flawless range.
Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.The 2017 vintage in the press:
Rebecca Gibb (Vinous July 2024) : 93/100 "The golden-hued 2017 Saumur blanc L'Échelier shows ripe flavors of pineapple, honey and truffle, almost as if there's some botrytis–but there's not. It's bone-dry, yet there's a tender middle to this light-bodied wine. Expect iodine, giving a salty-like-the-sea impression. The 2017 is ready to enjoy now."
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- Ready to drink
- Apogée:
- 2021-2028
- Potential alcohol:
- 13%
- Organic certification:
- 2004
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This is the domain which, by its passage into biodynamic viticulture and its parcel selections, shows the most beautiful qualitative progression of the Loire Valley. Crystalline Chenins and ripe Cabernet Franc, all matured with mastery to sublimate the purity and identity of the juices, between tension, crispness, refinement and generosity. In white as in red, a dazzling and flawless range.
Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.The 2021 vintage in the press:
Vinous (Rebecca Gibb - Master of Wine - December 2023): 94/100 “Made from vines planted on clay-limestone in 1904, Les Mémoires 2021 is fragrant, refined and long. It displays rich concentration in an elegant, rather delicate whole. As expected with a wine of this age, it's young and bright, with aromas of red currant fruit, flowers, black olive and even a hint of smoky wood. There's definitely depth and tannins, but they melt away on the palate. The finish is refined and assured, with a shimmering acidity that gives it a fabulous backbone. Apogee 2024-2038.”
More- To keep or to drink:
- Ready to drink
- Apogée:
- 2030-2042
- Organic certification:
- 2004