Clarendelle

A new operation from the owners of Haut-Brion, the production varies from a quarter-million to over a half-million bottles, depending on the vintage conditions. Of course, he depends on his team at Haut-Brion, the two Jean-Philippes who work there (one, the son of Jean-Bernard Delmas, who made all the Haut-Brions between 1959 and 2003 and his grandfather, who made them back through the 1920s) and they obviously have access to some extraordinary fruit sources. ROBERT PARKER