Featured Selections
The real insider stuff — celebrated picks sourced directly from our latest text and email offers. These are the bottles our team has been buzzing about, handpicked and featured for a reason. Don't miss out.
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Tenuta Viglione Primitivo Riserva Gioia del Colle Marpione 2021
$28.98QuickviewDEC9595 Points! An array of aromas, from the typical dark berries of the variety through sweet herbs, mint and orange zest, introduce a palate which opens soft and smooth, with broad, super-ripe tannins perfectly integrated with the fleshy fruit. A very traditional Riserva style from a single vineyard planted in 1937, on possibly the highest site of the denomination. - Decanter Magazine
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Chateau Haut Brion Pessac-Leognan 2016 Pre Arrival Ex-Chateau 1-Pack OWC
$689.98HURRY, ONLY 4 LEFT!QuickviewJD98+DEC100JA100JS100LPB100VM100RP100WE100100 Points | Wine Advocate
Lisa Perrotti-Brown found an extraordinary combination of floral, mineral and cassis character, framed by exceptionally fine tannins and seamless freshness. Her review emphasized the wine's profound aromatics, elegance and remarkably long finish.
100 Points | Vinous
Antonio Galloni found the 2016 even more impressive from bottle than it had been from barrel. He praised the wine's combination of tremendous power and richness without heaviness, along with the classic gravel, tobacco and cedar character that makes Haut-Brion so distinctive.
100 Points | James Suckling
Suckling found tremendous black fruit and forest berry character wrapped around an intensely structured palate. He praised the extremely fine-grained tannins, vibrant acidity and seemingly endless finish, highlighting its very long aging potential.
100 Points | Decanter
Jane Anson found a wine of hidden power, with charcoal, tobacco, dark plum and damson fruit emerging as it opened. She praised its layered tannins and understated authority, concluding:
“A great wine En primeur that has settled into greatness.”
100 Points | Wine Enthusiast
Roger Voss described the 2016 as one of the finest Haut-Brions in many years, emphasizing its immense tannic structure, powerful black fruit and acidity.
This is a wine built for long-term aging.
100 Points | Jeff Leve, Wine Cellar Insider
Jeff Leve was equally enthusiastic, awarding the wine a perfect 100 points. The nose explodes with smoke, mint, cigar wrapper, tobacco and crème de cassis, but for Leve, what really separates the wine is its combination of elegance, concentration, complexity, extraordinary length and sensuous texture.
His conclusion gets right to the point:
“This is one of those dream wines that if you can afford it, it belongs in your cellar!”
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Le Petit Mouton de Rothschild Pauillac 2022
$239.98QuickviewJD96DEC94JS96LPB9596 Points! A really flamboyant wine beginning with lots of berries, plums, asphalt and orange peel before turning to blue fruits. Full-bodied and medium round tannins give a softness and drinkability. Long finish. Give it three to four years to come together but already gorgeous. Hard not to drink now. - JamesSuckling.com
96 Points! Up there with the top second wines in the vintage, the deep purple-hued 2022 Le Petit Mouton De Mouton Rothschild offers up textbook Pauillac (and Mouton) notes of ripe black fruits, spicy wood, crushed stone, and graphite, with a terrific floral character with air. It's medium to full-bodied, pure, layered, and flawlessly balanced. Drink bottles over the coming two decades. - Jeb Dunnuck
95 Points! Flowers, cherry pipe-tobacco, black raspberry, spearmint, black cassis, and plums open the perfume. On the palate, the wine is lush, fresh, sweet, spicy, pure, and rich, with a vibrant, long deep, black and blue fruit and tobacco packed finish. This is Jr. Mouton Rothschild! The wine blends 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19.% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot.14.2% ABV, 3.86 pH. Drink from 2024-2045. - Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
94 Points! Darkly scented nose, liquorice, dark chocolate and black bramble fruits, smells rich, intense and fragrant. Smooth and supple, clean, clear and crisp, a nice purity to this with clear minerality and bite. A touch lean, some austerity here though balanced by juiciness and corresponding acidity, nicely bright but serious at the same time given the dark fruits and spiced edges. Tannins are well integrated, this is just a little sharp and straight, not yet softening and expanding but such great potential. Good grip and intensity, this is a powerful wine, focussed with persistence. A great stand out with lots of promise. 11.3% press wine - usually at 7-8% maximum. 3% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 3.86pH. 80 IPT. Aged 60% in new barrels. - Georgina Hindle, Decanter.com
95 Points! Deep garnet-purple colored, it features evocative cassis and black cherry preserves scents, giving way to a very pretty perfume of lilac, cinnamon stick, and licorice. The medium to full-bodied palate delivers mouth-coating blackberry preserves flavors with beautifully ripe tannins and compelling freshness, finishing long and perfumed. - Lisa Perrotti-Brown, MW
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Castello Meleto Chianti Classico Gran Selezione 2020
$34.98HURRY, ONLY 12 LEFT!QuickviewWS93DEC9797 Points! An orchestra of rosemary, sage and black tea aromatics percolate across the nose and slip into the melt-in-the-mouth chorus of cherry compote which lines the palate. Tightly furled with graphite tannins, smoky acidity and a lingering finish. - Decanter World Wine Awards
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