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R & B Wines - Wine Price List
BORDEAUX - Margaux
Margaux - Listed by
CHATEAU/Vintage
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Wine
Where
available, tasting scores and notes are by Robert Parker (RP) and taken
from his website www.erobertparker.com
or Stephen Tanzer (ST) from www.wineaccess.com
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Price per
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Tasting
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10 |
75cl |
ALTER EGO de PALMER
Margaux
2nd Wine of
Chateau Palmer
The top wine currently sells for approx. £192 for a 75cl bottle! So this
represents real value.
Vinous.com/Neal Martin -
The 2017 Alter Ego was bottled a little later than
others at the end of August 2019. Deep garnet in colour, it has a
refined bouquet with blackberry, cedar, crushed violets, hints of orange
pith and incense, all very well defined but understated.
The palate is medium-bodied with a lightly spiced entry. Fine
tannins, a little compact being so close to bottling, yet it displays
the tension and focus that I observed out of barrel with an attractive
marine influence on the aftertaste. |
2017 |
£62.00 |
NM90
2020-36
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12 |
37.5cl |
PALMER
Margaux
Vinous.com/Neal Martin-
The 2016 Palmer has a generous, slightly lactic
bouquet of opulent red fruit infused with touches of dark chocolate,
although it calms down and gains more grace with aeration. The palate
is medium-bodied with supple tannins and well-judged acidity. Very
harmonious, revealing cedar and mint toward the extraordinarily
persistent finish. This is another classy, persistent Margaux with a
long future ahead. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting.
HALF-BOTTLES -
a great way to try a top wine, without having to pay the full
price for standard bottle. |
2016 |
£170.00 |
NM98
2023-65TOP Vintage
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12 |
75cl |
PALMER
Margaux
Vinous.com/Antonio Galloni -
The 2014 Palmer is endowed with serious depth and
intensity. Black cherry, bittersweet chocolate, spice, leather, tobacco
and menthol infuse the 2014 with striking midpalate depth, unctuousness
and texture. Silky, plush and polished, the 2014 will likely offer a
very long window of pure drinking pleasure. It is one of the sexiest,
raciest 2014s readers will come across. The blend is 49 % Cabernet
Sauvignon, 45 % Merlot and 6 % Petit Verdot aged in 60-65 % new French
oak. |
2014 |
£225.00 |
AG95+
2020-34
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12 |
75cl |
PALMER
Margaux
Vinous.com/Neal Martin -
The 2010 Palmer has an outgoing, intense and
multifaceted bouquet with black cherries, boysenberry, crushed violets
and hints of cassis - your quintessential Margaux turned up to eleven.
The palate is medium-bodied with very supple tannins and a fine bead
of acidity. Headier than its Margaux peers, it builds in the mouth
with a complex, marine-tinged finish with cracked black pepper lingering
on the aftertaste. This is an outstanding Palmer. |
2010 |
£350.00 |
NM96
2026-70
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6 |
75cl |
PALMER
Margaux
Vinous.com/Antonio Galloni
The 2005 Château Palmer is in a gorgeous place
right now where it is just beginning to show the very early signs of
aromatic development. Dark, powerful and seductive, the 2005 is a
totally effortless wine. Black cherry, mocha, plum, licorice, new
leather and spice open up first, followed by subtler hints of rosemary
and lavender that add nuance. Even with all of its overt radiance and
intensity, the Palmer retains the sense of freshness that is such a
signature of the year. Readers lucky enough to own the 2005 can look
forward to many more years of exceptional drinking. |
2005 |
£320.00 |
AG96
2020-36
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47 |
75cl |
BARON de BRANE
Margaux
2nd Wine of
Chateau Brane Cantenac
The top wine currently sells for approx. £66 for a 75cl bottle! So this
represents real value.
Vinous.com/Antonio Galloni -
The 2017 Baron de Brane is a pretty wine to drink
now and over the next few years. Dark cherry, mocha, spice and new
leather are all nicely pushed forward. There is a good bit of
immediacy to the 2017, if not a ton of depth or persistence. |
2017 |
£27.00 |
AG89
2020-27
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24 |
75cl |
BARON de BRANE
Margaux
2nd Wine of
Chateau Brane Cantenac
The top wine currently sells for approx. £96 for a 75cl bottle! So this
represents real value.
Vinous.com/Neal Martin -
The 2010 Baron de Brane has more detail and
clarity on the nose compared to the 2009, displaying black fruit, gravel
and cedar aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin,
more fruit concentration than the 2009 and a poised, savoury, slightly
meaty finish. This is a fine Deuxième Vin. |
2010 |
£39.00 |
NM89
2018-29
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36 |
75cl |
BRANE-CANTENAC
Margaux
RP/Lisa Perrotti-Brown -
Medium to deep garnet-purple coloured, the
2017 Brane-Cantenac starts off a tad restrained and reluctant to show,
opening out to notes of baked blackberries, plum preserves and crème de
cassis with hints of cigar box and tar. Medium to full-bodied, the
palate is wearing a lot of muscular fruit with firm, grainy tannins and
plenty of freshness, finishing with great length. Needs time! |
2017 |
£64.00 |
LPB92+
2022-38
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24* |
75cl |
BRANE-CANTENAC
Margaux
Vinous.com/Neal Martin -
The 2016 Brane-Cantenac has been on a roll
of late, under the watchful eye of Henri Lurton. This latest bottled
vintage is superb. The divine, pure blackberry and bilberry bouquet
develops touches of graphite in the glass. The palate is
medium-bodied with fine tannin, silky-smooth texture and a superb bead
of acidity. This is not a powerful Brane-Cantenac, and it is perhaps
less austere than I suspected en primeur, but it should drink
beautifully over the next three decades. If you have a penchant for
traditional claret, it really doesn’t come better than this. |
2016 |
£68.00 |
NM96
2026-56
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16 |
75cl |
CHATEAU CLARKE
Baron
Edmond de Rothschild
Listrac
RP/Neal Martin -
The 2015 Clarke has an attractive blackberry and
briary scented nose with just a hint of dark chocolate emanating from
the new oak. The palate is medium-bodied with fine grain tannin, the
acidity nicely judged with fine tension on the cedar and tobacco-tinged
finish. I appreciate the freshness and refinement demonstrated by
this Château Clarke, a classic Listrac that should give 10-12 years of
pleasure. |
2015 |
£29.00 |
RP/NM92
2019-35
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4 |
75cl |
CHATEAU LASCOMBES
Margaux
RP -
An
intriguing blend of 48% Merlot, 48% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Petit
Verdot, this inky purple-coloured wine is ripe, progressively styled,
big, rich, thick and juicy. In other words, the 2012 Lascombes is
loaded. No doubt the high percentage of Merlot in the final blend gives
this wine a fleshiness and succulence that is unusual in the Médoc |
2012 |
£69.00 |
RP94
2019-49BIN END PRICE
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20 |
75cl |
SEGLA
Margaux
2nd Wine of
Chateau Rauzan-Segla
The top wine currently sells for approx. £84 for a 75cl bottle! So this
represents real value.
RP/Neal Martin
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The 2015 Segla is a blend of
55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, and a "seasoning" of 1% Petit Verdot
and 1% Cabernet Franc, representing just over half the total crop,
matured in 25% new wood. It has a fragrant, very precise bouquet with
mineral-rich, very pure blackberry, blueberry and cold flint-like
aromas. There is wonderful tension here for a deuxième vin. The
palate is medium-bodied with a juicy opening, just a tingle of spice on
the tip of the tongue. There is very fine tension here, moderate
weight but great persistence and sense of energy on the finish. On a
budget? Thinking of a second wine? Look no further. |
2015 |
£39.00 |
RP/NM92
2019-33TOP Vintage
- Great Value!
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16 |
37.5cl |
SEGLA
Margaux
2nd Wine of
Chateau Rauzan-Segla
As above, but
HALF-BOTTLES -
a great way to try a top wine, without having to pay the full
price for standard bottle.
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2015 |
£20.00 |
RP/NM92
2019-33TOP Vintage
- Great Value!
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18 |
75cl |
CHATEAU
RAUZAN-SEGLA
Margaux
Vinous.com/Antonio Galloni -
The 2017 Rauzan-Ségla is coming together very
nicely. Soft and silky, the 2017 is a wine of pure and total finesse.
Sweet red cherry and plum fruit, tobacco, cedar and licorice add pretty
top notes, but more than anything else, the 2017 impresses with its
statuesque elegance and total balance; nothing in particular stands out.
For that reason, Rauzan-Ségla is the sort of wine that is easy to
overlook, and yet all the elements of a top notch Left-Bank wine are
present.
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2017 |
£70.00 |
AG94
2027-47
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24* |
75cl |
CHATEAU
RAUZAN-SEGLA
Margaux
Vinous.com/Neal Martin -
The 2016 Rauzan-Ségla has an elegant bouquet that
needs some coaxing from the glass, eventually revealing red berry fruit,
rose petal, chai tea and light bergamot aromas. The palate is
medium-bodied with very supple tannins that lend a silky-smooth texture.
This has a fine line of acidity and impressive harmony on the finish.
Wonderful. |
2016 |
£95.00 |
NM96
2022-56
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23* |
75cl |
CHATEAU
RAUZAN-SEGLA
Margaux
Vinous.com/Neal Martin -
The 2015 Rauzan-Ségla, picked September 10 to
October 9, has a lucid deep colour. No great surprise that this
performed exactly as it did a few weeks earlier. The bouquet bursts from
the glass with fragrant red berry fruit, crushed violets and iris,
almost penetrating in its intensity. You can feel the energy coiled up
inside this nascent Margaux. The palate is medium-bodied with fine
tannin. This has such a backbone and structure, layers of sappy black
fruit suffused with crushed stone, a seam of graphite that lends it a
Pauillac-like allure. It feels very long and intense, a Rauzan-Ségla
destined to last decades rather than years. |
2015 |
£90.00 |
NM96
2024-55
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