Bordeaux Wine

Suduiraut is one of the great names of Sauternes, and mature bottles of a classed growth rarely reach the shelf at all.

A first-rank Pomerol estate on the Saint-Émilion border, Merlot-dominant and now fully mature at fourteen years old.

One of the benchmark dry whites of Bordeaux, grown on a single organically certified block of Günz gravel and fermented entirely in barrel.

A Pauillac classed growth sitting between Lafite and Mouton and farmed to the same standard by the same owners.

Saint-Julien's largest single-block vineyard, with 50-year-old vines, in a benchmark vintage for the decade.

Margaux at Third Growth level from 2015, a vintage that gave the appellation ripeness and structure in the same wine.

A Premier Grand Cru Classé from the limestone plateau at the heart of Saint-Émilion, in a classic vintage that gave structure without heaviness.

The leading estate of Saint-Julien, from the walled Grand Clos that sits on the Pauillac boundary beside Château Latour, and a wine that ...

A classified-growth Margaux with fourteen years behind it, which is the point at which claret stops being a project and starts being a drink.

Properly mature claret is the hardest thing to buy at this price, and this one arrives with a decade already behind it and no cellaring required.

Pagodes comes off plots identified for it on the Hill of Pebbles, not simply what the grand vin declines.

White Bordeaux made the serious way: one 1.80-hectare plot of clay and limestone, hand-picked at dawn, fermented in barrel with bâtonnage...

Saint-Émilion on the label usually means a price to match, and 3.5 hectares of vines a short walk from Château Monbousquet is about as cl...

Connétable was one of the very first Médoc second wines, and it comes off Talbot's single 110-hectare vineyard rather than bought-in fruit.

Seventeen hectares on the Grand Poujeaux gravel terrace, the same vein that starts at Mouton Rothschild and ends in Margaux, with Hubert ...

The second wine of a Second Growth Saint-Julien, off forty-five-year-old vines on gravel over clay and made the same traditional way as the grand vin.

Sauvignon Gris is the quieter, rounder cousin of Sauvignon Blanc, and at 80% of the blend it gives this wine weight that a standard Borde...

Goulée is made in the northern Médoc by Cos d'Estournel, the Saint-Estèphe Second Growth, using the same careful, low-temperature approac...

Pomerol on a small scale: a handful of hectares on the plateau's southern slopes, organically farmed and aged on its fine lees without racking.

Montagne Saint-Émilion sits next door to Saint-Émilion itself and sells for a fraction of the price, which is the whole point of this bottle.

Twenty-five hectares on the limestone plateau near the high point of Saint-Émilion, in one of the appellation's best communes, reclassifi...

The second wine of a Margaux Third Growth, made from younger vines on the same Cantenac gravel and in the same house style.

Le Secret is the top cuvée at Lestrille, a 45-hectare Entre-deux-Mers estate: parcel-by-parcel vinification, ageing in selected barriques...

White Bordeaux at this price is usually plain Sauvignon Blanc; the 28% Muscadelle here adds the floral, orange-spice note that makes the ...