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Lot # <strong>Wine</strong> Year M D Comment<br />
Cellar Offering 160<br />
BORDEAUX 2003 VINTAGE<br />
See note on page 5.<br />
3148 Château Maillard, Graves 2003 8 9 Still full of red and black fruit notes. Good stalky, spice edged<br />
tannins. It is already powerfully flavoursome, but will get even<br />
better yet.<br />
3151 Château Le Conseiller, 2003 8 9 One of the first wines we offered from the cellars of Janoueix,<br />
Bordeaux Supérieur who has developed a following of “cult” proportions since<br />
Opimian wrote his name on the international export market.<br />
3153 Château Guadet Saint Julien, 2003 8 9 A wine that is now showing great breed and distinction.<br />
Grand Cru, Saint-Émilion Soft and typically Saint-Émilion, with interest and elegance<br />
in the mouth.<br />
BORDEAUX 2002 VINTAGE<br />
Few experts gave the vintage more than an even chance of producing classy wines. The summer was changeable, but with September,<br />
as so often in Bordeaux, came fine weather that continued until the harvest at the end of the month. Nowadays, they say there is no<br />
vintage so poor that it cannot be saved. With this one, it was not so much a question of saving the year, but making the most of it,<br />
leaving the final verdict to the buyers and now, eight years later, to the tasters.<br />
3152 Château Hortevie, Saint Julien 2002 9 10 Typical Saint Julien as it develops, its lovely subtle tobacco<br />
leaf nose and warm, well rounded leaf compost aromas.<br />
3159 Château Thébot, Bordeaux 2002 10 10 Good, ready.<br />
3169 Château de Sours Rouge, Bordeaux 2003 9 10 A reliable stand-by for special occasions. This property never<br />
lets you down. It is often described as being “on a par” with<br />
the great wines of the Classified Growths of Bordeaux, and as<br />
the exclusive outlet in Canada, who are we to argue.<br />
3170 La Source Rouge, Bordeaux 2003 9 9 Great. Ready, perfectly rich red.<br />
Cellar Offering 161<br />
3181 - 3213<br />
VIN DE PAYS<br />
This offering was mainly a homage to the Vin de Pays, plus one or two other wines from highly rated properties of Southern France,<br />
the area largely lying between the Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean Sea. They were made for enjoyment within two or three years<br />
of the vintage. As all the wines of this offer have now reached their sixth year, they are not only ready, but some will have begun to<br />
fail. However, the reds, particularly from properties such as Château Vignelaure, Château Salitis or Château La Clotte Fontane, remain<br />
healthy and full-bodied, but they will hardly improve any further. So, break open the cellar, invite friends and hold a party.<br />
Cellar Offering 162<br />
3276 Clos Gebrat Joven, Priorato 2004 8 9 The whole of the wine world has found its way to Priorat and<br />
bought land, and now make massive, pungent, tar flavoured<br />
monsters that should be cellared away for a decade before<br />
tasting. Still huge, only showing early sign of the softening of<br />
maturation, it is almost full enough to be chewed.<br />
Cellar Offering 163<br />
3310 Cabernet Sauvignon, Briar Ridge 2004 9 9 Wonderfully ripe black berries, cassis, a grinding of fresh black<br />
pepper and finely tuned supple tannins. Very fine wine. Should<br />
be used this year or next.<br />
3311 Shiraz, Geoff Hardy 2004 8 9 No change. If one had to find one Shiraz in the cellar to<br />
represent all those of Australia, this might well be selected,<br />
as it does offer all the fun of the grape. Leather, chocolate,<br />
smoke, cedar, plums and liquorice.<br />
<strong>Wine</strong> <strong>Review</strong> <strong>2010</strong>