Amazing Cellar January 2025
We're kicking off our 2025 Cellar Offers with a little beauty.
This is but a portion of a lifelong collector who has offered wines before through our Cellar Offer program. As ever from this source, the wines are cleverly chosen and trace his passion for the great wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy with a more recent interest in Tuscan and Californian superstars.
There is a heavy emphasis on larger format bottlings here ranging from 1945 through to present day releases. All have been perfectly stored; trust me when I say this, I've been a guest in this cellar on many many ocassions and can vouch for the conditions. This is a collector who recognised the value of cellaring conditions being perfect long before the general realisation in Australia.
As with all our cellar offers, no returns are possible and freight will be added to all orders which are not marked for collection.
Each wine listed is a single bottle unless specifically marked so please carefully check before ordering. As there are orders coming in online and via email, no order will be confirmed until you have been contacted by us.
Happy Hunting
Michael McNamara
This is but a portion of a lifelong collector who has offered wines before through our Cellar Offer program. As ever from this source, the wines are cleverly chosen and trace his passion for the great wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy with a more recent interest in Tuscan and Californian superstars.
There is a heavy emphasis on larger format bottlings here ranging from 1945 through to present day releases. All have been perfectly stored; trust me when I say this, I've been a guest in this cellar on many many ocassions and can vouch for the conditions. This is a collector who recognised the value of cellaring conditions being perfect long before the general realisation in Australia.
As with all our cellar offers, no returns are possible and freight will be added to all orders which are not marked for collection.
Each wine listed is a single bottle unless specifically marked so please carefully check before ordering. As there are orders coming in online and via email, no order will be confirmed until you have been contacted by us.
Happy Hunting
Michael McNamara
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Leoville Las Cases 2010As one would expect, this is a powerful, concentrated wine with 13.7% natural alcohol (compared to 2005's 13.2%). The pH is quite normal at 3.56, and its relatively high total acidity gives it a classic, fresh, yet backward style. Given how long vintages such as 1982, 1986, and I suspect, 2000 are taking to reach maturity, prospective purchasers of this wine should easily invest in a decade of cellaring, although I suspect it will be closer to 15 or more years before it reveals secondary nuances. A good 40- to 50-year wine, it is a dense purple, full-bodied style of Las Cases, with classic sweet kirsch, graphite and black currant fruit as well as hints of new saddle leather and subtle oak. Backward, layered and multi-dimensional, the wine is stunningly rich, but brooding. Forget it at least until 2020 or later. ROBERT PARKER
Cropped at 36.7hl/ha, the Leoville Las-Cases is a blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc, offering 13.7% alcohol and a pH of 3.56. It will be raised in 75% new oak. The nose is very intense with notes of blackberry, cassis, tobacco and a touch of black truffle, all very well defined and perhaps less generous, but more cerebral than the 2009. The palate is full-bodied with exceptionally silky smooth tannins, wonderful harmony and sense of beguiling composure and completeness. The finish is tannic, driven by the ripe Cabernet Sauvignon. I expect this Las-Cases to close down for a few years...it will need time to mellow and reach its drinking plateau. Drink 2025- Tasted March 2011. NEAL MARTIN
This is very silky, with a racy, fresh character of violets, currants and raspberries. Full with a super texture. reminds me of the 1996. JAMES SUCKLING2010Cabernet BlendsFrance356$830.00 As low as $747.00